[Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-05 Thread Ian Langworth
At the meeting, Uri suggested that we turn boston.pm.org into a wiki -- specifically, a Kwiki. I'd be happy to do so. Aye? Nay? -- Ian Langworth Project Guerrilla Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science ___ Boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-05 Thread John Saylor
hi i think setting up a wiki of somekind is a great idea. it can even be a link off of http://boston.pm.org/ if the people who own that site want to maintain some independence and control. ( 04.08.05 10:19 -0400 ) David: These two issues may indicate that a wiki which allows an admin group and

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-05 Thread Bobbi Fox
I think it's a great idea, modulo the ability to limit editing access per the comments that have come before, and the absolute committment *NOT* to have the theme be red and orange :-) -- Bobbi Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Database-driven and Web-enabled applications development

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-05 Thread Ronald J Kimball
We had about 20 people at Tuesday's tech meeting. We started with a review of notable happenings at OSCON, including Dan Sugalski being hit in the face with a pie, and Jon Orwant receiving a White Camel award. http://www.tamias.net/rjk/photography/oscon_2004_pie/

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-05 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:57:32AM -0400, Ian Langworth wrote: At the meeting, Uri suggested that we turn boston.pm.org into a wiki -- specifically, a Kwiki. I'd be happy to do so. Aye? Nay? I think it's a pretty good idea. Is there a way to limit who has access to edit pages? It would be

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-05 Thread Dan Boger
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:57:32AM -0400, Ian Langworth wrote: At the meeting, Uri suggested that we turn boston.pm.org into a wiki -- specifically, a Kwiki. I'd be happy to do so. Aye? Nay? Aye :) -- Dan Boger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-05 Thread David
Ian Langworth wrote: At the meeting, Uri suggested that we turn boston.pm.org into a wiki -- specifically, a Kwiki. I'd be happy to do so. I've got a Kwiki set up on one of my personal machines and I've been very happy with it - as simple as it is - with the ability to lock down certain pages,

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-05 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Bobbi Fox wrote: I think it's a great idea, modulo the ability to limit editing access per the comments that have come before, and the absolute committment *NOT* to have the theme be red and orange :-) Fine then, orange it is, and nothing but orange on orange on orange! But --

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-05 Thread Ian Langworth
On 05.Aug.2004 10:19AM -0400, David wrote: [I know, that doesn't answer your question, but I'd kind of like to hear folks thoughts about various wiki implementations, and, being Boston.pm, especially their thoughts about various Perl ones] There are a few other wikis to check out: *

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-05 Thread Brock
On 2004.08.05.13.02, Ian Langworth wrote: | These two issues may indicate that a wiki which allows an | admin group and locked pages is essential. (Kwiki, at least | when I was playing with it, basically allowed only one | administrator who could lock pages) | | The larger the wiki

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-05 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 11:16, Ronald J Kimball wrote: We had about 20 people at Tuesday's tech meeting. We started with a review of notable happenings at OSCON, including Dan Sugalski being hit in the face with a pie, and Jon Orwant receiving a White Camel award. That former topic also showed

[Boston.pm] RE: wiki

2004-08-05 Thread Stephen A. Jarjoura
I've just gone through this, a few months ago. I wanted to set up a Wiki, had a commercial website with CGI / perl / etc. but no shell account. It certainly made things interesting! I ended up finding and using a variation written in perl, called Wala which can be found here:

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:23 PM -0400 8/5/04, Aaron Sherman wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 11:16, Ronald J Kimball wrote: We had about 20 people at Tuesday's tech meeting. We started with a review of notable happenings at OSCON, including Dan Sugalski being hit in the face with a pie, and Jon Orwant receiving a

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-05 Thread Andrew Langmead
On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 05:56 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote: ...or they should provide a mirrored version of the page at least :) I'm sure my employer would be thrilled about mirrored versions of the pages. It would cause them to lose ad revenue. I guess if they were willing to ask can we post

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-05 Thread Uri Guttman
IL == Ian Langworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IL At the meeting, Uri suggested that we turn boston.pm.org into IL a wiki -- specifically, a Kwiki. I'd be happy to do so. IL Aye? Nay? well, the full consensus seems to be aye which is good. i say we use kwiki since we have a ingy minion

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-05 Thread Uri Guttman
AL == Andrew Langmead [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AL On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 05:56 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote: ...or they should provide a mirrored version of the page at least :) AL I'm sure my employer would be thrilled about mirrored versions of the AL pages. It would cause them

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-05 Thread Andrew Langmead
On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 08:04 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: i think he meant a mirrored version of dan's page so his box won't spontaneously combust under slashdot loads. so the idea for smaller sites (which are probably not revenue based) would get mirrored on slash so you can read the linked

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-05 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 05:56 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote: ...or they should provide a mirrored version of the page at least :) I'm sure my employer would be thrilled about mirrored versions of the pages. It would cause them to lose ad

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-05 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Aug 5, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote: I meant it in the sense of the Google cache, where you have an alternative in case the main one goes down, but the main link is prominent and obviously the one to follow. Have you ever noticed a google resultset entry that didn't have a cache link?