Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki conversion

2013-09-06 Thread Duane Bronson
AWS (Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing: Compute, Storage, Database) gives you a FREE virtual server with limited power, but it's probably good enough for boston.pm needs. I've been using their free demo for my personal needs (git, network debugging, cron, perl) for a year or two now. I

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki conversion

2013-09-06 Thread Sean Quinlan
Sounds fine to me. Let me know if there is anything specific you need from me. In the meantime I still have a bunch of sites to relocate over this weekend and even if those all go well (fracking email, joomla, etc), I still probably wouldn't get to boston.pm untill the following weekend at very

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki conversion

2013-09-06 Thread Maria Huang
Hi Bill, I already added a new page: Meeting-2013-09-10 for the coming meeting. Please see following link: http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Meeting-2013-09-10 Best, Maria On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Sean, yes, we'll abandon your kwiki, and it

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki conversion

2013-09-06 Thread Maria Huang
I guess I like kiwi too much, I suppose to type kwiki, but I typed kiwiki instead:) Maria On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Maria Huang mhuang...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sean, I am glad I can help a little, because I consider me a part of kiwi (Just kiding, kiwiki) group or new wikispaces for

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki conversion

2013-09-05 Thread Sean Quinlan
Just pinging to get an idea if this is moving anywhere. I need to move boston.pm.org to a new hosting service. I can migrate everything, but it's one less thing to manage if I don't have to keep kwiki running post move. :) Cheers, Sean On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:32 AM, mhuang...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki conversion

2013-09-05 Thread Maria Huang
Hi Sean, I converted some pages from http://boston.pm.org/kwiki to http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/ already, but not all of them, like Tom said before, how calendar gets handled needs discussion, also I had thought do we need have a section to hold presentation or talk, and encourage members to

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki conversion

2013-09-05 Thread Bill Ricker
Hi. Sean, yes, we'll abandon your kwiki, and it looks like wikispaces a viable alternative. I can request PM.ORG move the DNS to refer to the new wikispaces moderately quickly, give me a few days before you have to pull the plug. What's the timeframe? Maria, i acknowledge the existing Calendar

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki conversion

2013-09-05 Thread Sean Quinlan
Not my kwiki! :P No emergency, I think we have a couple weeks still before we'd have to renew the old hosting if it isn't moved (one way or another). Cheers, Sean On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Sean, yes, we'll abandon your kwiki, and it looks

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki conversion

2013-07-31 Thread mhuang725
Thanks for your detailed information, and this can give me a jump start, I will take a close look soon. Maria Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Tom Metro tmetro+boston...@gmail.com wrote: Bill Ricker wrote: ...Wikispaces page. (I think I have a site setup for Boston.pm

[Boston.pm] Wiki conversion

2013-07-30 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Ricker wrote: ...Wikispaces page. (I think I have a site setup for Boston.pm there, just awaiting content.) pointer ? that might kick start group use so make it worthwhile. http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/ Created a year ago. I had intended to do an initial cut of the conversion, but

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki Spam

2012-01-12 Thread Sean Quinlan
I'd agree. And I figure we can give edit accounts to any regular participant who wants to lend a hand. Cheers, Sean On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Federico Lucifredi flucifr...@acm.orgwrote: we probably don't need a wiki. Content management ahoy! Just my 5 cents. Best-F On Jan 11,

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki Spam

2012-01-12 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Ricker wrote: ...we'd had so little wiki-ish authoring activity... While Boston.pm doesn't encounter much collaborative document authoring, there is a benefit to a system where any volunteer can come along and contribute with minimal barriers. (On several occasions I've ran across open

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki Spam

2012-01-11 Thread Bill Ricker
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com wrote: I'll reiterate a prior recommendation to use Wikispaces. It's been working fine for BLU and a few other projects with minimal maintenance effort. (Much nicer wiki UI than kwiki, too.) If you set it to require a login

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki Spam

2012-01-11 Thread Federico Lucifredi
we probably don't need a wiki. Content management ahoy! Just my 5 cents. Best-F On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com wrote: I'll reiterate a prior recommendation to use Wikispaces. It's been working fine for BLU

[Boston.pm] Wiki Spam

2012-01-10 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:33:46PM -0500, Federico Lucifredi wrote: On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Sean Quinlan wrote: http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf CVE-2011-4885 Phuket property http://www.phuketproperty.com/ Reported 2003 I think this bug should be rather called

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki Spam

2012-01-10 Thread Tom Metro
Original Message Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki is back Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:07:03 -0500 From: Tom Metro tmetro-boston.pm@... CC: L-boston-pm boston-pm@mail.pm.org Bill Ricker wrote: We might want to consider if this current web situation can be improved - locking down

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki Spam

2012-01-10 Thread Federico Lucifredi
On Jan 10, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Ronald J Kimball wrote: Worse than that: this was copied from our Wiki, which has been very heavily hit with wiki spam again. Hrm. I Tried to clean up, someone please double-check me. Best -Federico _ -- 'Problem' is a

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki is back

2011-12-11 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Ricker wrote: We might want to consider if this current web situation can be improved - locking down the wiki would prevent spam (which is 80% of edits!) - switching from a wiki to a CMS might be reasonable... I'll reiterate a prior recommendation to use Wikispaces. It's been

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki is back

2011-09-24 Thread Bill Ricker
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/ is back. Thank You to Sean and Ronald and the volunteers at PM.Org for getting the DNS adjusted. And it's back again. (It may take a day or two for change to hit your DNS.) Thanks to

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-06 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 04.08.05 19:31 -0400 ) Uri Guttman: at least we should have meeting info and directions, talk subjects, a who's who page of members, job stuff?, boston perl things (what??), etc. maybe some of those things go on the main web site- don't need to duplicate lists. wiki is better for putting

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-06 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:43:20AM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: JS why not just run it up the flagpole and see who salutes! i won't touch that with a 10 foot flagpole! A 3 foot flagczech might be easier to manage, I'd say. -Gyepi ___ Boston-pm

[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

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] 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