[pm-h] Wiki Alternatives

G. Wade Johnson gwadej at anomaly.org
Fri Nov 17 05:16:27 PST 2006


On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:55:40 -0600
"Todd Rinaldo" <toddr at null.net> 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?

Will Willis bought the domain and set up the Wiki.

So he would have the final say on what happens with yapchouston.org.

G. Wade
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