[pm-h] Wiki Alternatives

Paul Archer tigger at io.com
Fri Nov 17 05:24:34 PST 2006


If they don't want to host it, I could probably put it up on my personal 
machine (assuming the bandwidth is pretty low).

Paul


6:55am, Todd Rinaldo wrote:

> 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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