Hi Perian, Leslie, and all, And if you're curious to try Trac without configuring your own server or paying for it, there are free Trac and Subversion services such as assembla (assembla.com); see also www.subversionary.org/hosting/hosting-services.*
Rob PS: not pitching assembla here, and I have no connection to it other than being a free account user; just offering the lead for your assessment.... ______________________________________________ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN) On Fri, July 18, 2008 3:03 pm, Leslie Johnston wrote: > Perian, > > We use Trac ??? http://trac.edgewall.org/ ??? for project management. > It's a combination issue-tracking system and wiki (you can use the wiki > features with or without the issue/task tracking) and also provides an > interface to a subversion repository you can use to manage documents and > code check in. We find it useful to have this combination of wiki pages > and an integrated way to manage and view tasks and status in the wiki. > I also store related documents there (which you can browse in the wiki), > and our developers use it to check-in code so we can always find clean > copies of scripts and programs outside the deployment environment. > > Leslie > > ---------- > Leslie Johnston > Digital Media Project Coordinator > Office of Strategic Initiatives > Library of Congress > 202-707-2801 > lesliej at loc.gov > >>>> "Perian Sully" <psully at magnes.org> 7/18/2008 12:42:42 PM >>> > Hi all: > > > > Ok, I'm feeling a few days late to the party, given that there was > just > a discussion on this topic at VSA, but since I didn't go, I'm hoping > someone here went and can give me some ideas for how we can use our > new > internal wiki to help keep discussions OUT of email and onto the > static/fluid format which is the wiki. > > > > We're moving our website into a content management system and I'm > hoping > I can collect all of the information from the seven workgroups into > one > location, especially for our collective sanity as we move forward. But > I'm kind of stumped as to the format, and with getting buy-in. Many of > the staff are not familiar with using wikis, so I need to train them. > Plus I'm having a bit of trouble conceptualizing how the organization > of > the information should work. > > > > Does anyone use a wiki for project management and would be willing to > share information about organization? and how did you get everyone > using > it? > > > > Perian Sully > > Collection Information and New Media Coordinator > > Judah L. Magnes Museum > > 2911 Russell St. > > Berkeley, CA 94705 > > Work: 510-549-6950 x 357 > > Fax: 510-849-3673 > > http://www.magnes.org > > http://www.musematic.org > > http://www.mediaandtechnology.org
