[pm-h] Wiki Alternatives

Todd Rinaldo toddr at null.net
Fri Nov 17 04:55:40 PST 2006


So I'm going to start by apologizing in advance if I'm inserting foot in
mouth.

At the meeting we discussed that the YAPC Houston Wiki is a little
"challenging" to use. A day later, I'm listening to perlcast
(http://perlcast.com/2006/11/04/kirsten-jones-on-the-social-text-wiki/) and
they (Josh McAdams) had an interview with Kristen Jones from Socialtext. 

Social text is a perl based wiki that is open source. It's got all the
multi-user and priveliges, etc built into it. From what I hear it's designed
to have both a non-technical and techy editor to make it easy to use by all.
What's better... They offer hosting. 

I have sent an initial ping to them asking if they'd be interested in
hosting http://yapchouston.org/ in exchange for some plugs both on the wiki
and maybe at the confrence. 

Questions:
1. Who currently hosts the wiki and owns the domain (or, who's feet have I
just stepped on?) 
2. Does anyone have any objections to moving in this direction?
3. I would like to volunteer to help by maintaining the wiki/web content as
we move towards the confrence. Any objections Jeremy?



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