Curriki is a non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce the gap between people who have access to high-quality education and people who don't have such as access. Curriki has created a website based on the XWiki solution to support the collaborative development and the free distribution of learning materials.

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Global Education and
Learning Community

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Curriki is a non-profit organization. Its mission is to remove the gap between people with access
to high-quality education and people who don't have such opportunities. Curriki created a
website based on XWiki to support collaborative development and the free distribution of
learning materials.
Context
Curriki wanted to make learning possible for everyone, everywhere in the world. The project started
from the idea that technology can play a crucial role in breaking down the inequality barriers that
prevent children from all over the world from accessing quality education. Having this in mind they
created a website, the first and only website for Open Source Curriculum (OSC), which would:
 provide universal access to educational materials (different areas of interest from the primary
and secondary education)
 allow all actors from the educational system to exchange information and connect to each
other
Why choose XWiki?
 XWiki is a unique combination of Wiki, CMS and community tools
 to be able to leverage Java and other Sun technologies
 the flexibility needed to discover long term requirements
 the ability to apply custom metadata
 the ability to apply fine grained rights and access privileges to wiki pages
Sector: education
Need: create an online
community to support the
development and free
distribution of educational
materials
Solution : Online Community
Product : XWiki Enterprise
“XWiki provides a powerful and flexible platform for the web
based community, content development and knowledge
management. The company provides the support and
partnership needed to meet your goals. XWiki's unique
combination of extensibility and its combination of Wiki, CMS
and Community features enable a wide spectrum of enterprise
and consumer applications. Also, the LGPL license provides the
flexibility needed for publishing derivative works.”
(Joshua Marks, Curriki CTO)

3. XWiki SAS - 35/37, rue Beaubourg - 75003 Paris
Tel: +33 (0)1 45 42 40 90
Fax: +33 (0)9 59 26 92 14
Email: contact@xwiki.com
Website: www.xwiki.com
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The solution
Curriki is a solution built on top of XWiki, dedicated for the Education use. The Curriki application was
created by extending the XWiki core to meet the specific educational needs. More precisely it provides
the following features:
 innovative multimedia asset contribution interface with meta-data assignment supporting Wiki,
HTML, Flash, zip, video, audio and Sankoré (Digital Whiteboard Format)
 support for document models when publishing
 educational curriculum and asset viewing with an advanced content navigation table
 custom curriculum and asset Search based on the Lucene search engine
 advanced personal space (“My Curriki”)
 social network and group collaboration features including blog, messaging, wiki and curriculum
sharing
Curriki's code is open-source and published under the LGPL license.
Testimonials
"There is really nothing like XWiki on the market. There are many solutions proposing what XWiki
proposes, but none of them brings them all together in such an innovative way."
(Kim Jones, Curriki Chairman, co-founder and former Sun Microsystems Executive)