Hip Hop Congress

Imagine if Wikipedia combined with MySpace to create a free online audio engineering and sound arts school in which “everyone is both student and teacher”! This is analogous to WikiAudio’s community vision. Bridging the divide between audio art, science, and education; WikiAudio is making strides towards becoming the premier “one stop” website for novices and professionals to network, educate, learn, and connect. The website combines both social networking and “Wiki” landscapes to create a hybrid that incorporates articles, videos, audio files, tutorials, user profiles, forums, blogs, RSS feeds, job listings and more.

Conceived by Bill Turner, who teaches at the Ex’pression College For Digital Arts in Emeryville, California; and co-founded by Lathan Hodge, a filmmaker and former executive at BET; the founders envision “Wikiaudio growing to become the premier audio tech community on the net.” When asked for the inspiration for the site, Bill Turner said, “I think education should basically be free, and being that I’m in the audio industry I figured this is an excellent place to start.” “We already have a lot of students who are on board contributing, everyone is really excited.”

The technical development for the site was done by Cooper Quintin and Justin Giovanni of Bitsamurai.net. When asked about the site, Cooper explains “WikiAudio uses Mindtouch’s open source Deki Wiki application integrated with Drupal to create a Wiki-social network hybrid. We all agreed that Deki Wiki is one of the most popular up and coming wiki software platforms available and that Drupal is definitely one of the best social platforms, so it made sense to simply combine the two to create something greater than the sum of its parts.”

Visit WikiAudio and see for yourself
http://www.WikiAudio.org

Founder: William Turner: wturner76@gmail.com