Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >   * No locks. Wikis which use edit locks are evil. (Edit locks are one of the many things I hate about TWiki.) > If Wikkid makes it possible to use an actual text-editor to edit > page-texts, even better Get the plugin/extension/

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > A counter to your counter: One of the reasons that `using a modern > version control system as the data store is intriguing' is that there > are additional user-visible features afforded by it. Checking out and branching and running

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ted Roche writes: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > > > > I'm pretty sure that I won't be able to make it to this meeting, but > > would still like to contribute a pointer to Wikkid: > > > >https://launchpad.net/wikkid > > > > Cool! Have you used it? Anything

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott writes: > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > > The idea of using a modern version control system as the data store is > > intriging. > > Counterpoint: As a wiki user/editor, I don't care what the backend > is, anymore than I care what brand of hard disk is used

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Ted Roche
On 06/07/2010 11:13 AM, Šarūnas wrote: > What's the other list? I would be interested in glancing the archives > of that discussion. The ProLinux list on leafe.com. Their mailman archive is down at the moment, but here are the threads: http://leafe.com/archives/full_thread/441874 http://leafe.co

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Tom Buskey
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Jeffry Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > > Extra credit: on another list where I posted this announcement, we are > > having a good discussion of "what defines a wiki versus a blog or a CMS" > > Opinions welcomed. Venn diagrams for

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > Extra credit: on another list where I posted this announcement, we are > having a good discussion of "what defines a wiki versus a blog or a CMS" > Opinions welcomed. Venn diagrams for extra, extra credit ;) > 1. The page IS the document (you see

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 10:47:39AM -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > On 06/07/2010 10:34 AM, Mark E. Mallett wrote: > > No moinmoin? (python based, flat storage) > > Yeah, moinmoin rocks, too. That's one of the problems - I think there > are hundreds of wiki applications. And I've installed and played wit

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Šarūnas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/07/2010 10:47 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > On 06/07/2010 10:34 AM, Mark E. Mallett wrote: >> No moinmoin? (python based, flat storage) > > <...> > > Extra credit: on another list where I posted this announcement, we > are having a good discussion of "w

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Šarūnas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/07/2010 10:47 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > On 06/07/2010 10:34 AM, Mark E. Mallett wrote: >> No moinmoin? (python based, flat storage) > > Yeah, moinmoin rocks, too. That's one of the problems - I think > there are hundreds of wiki applications. And I'

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Does anyone know of a site that catalogs or compares Wiki software? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wikis ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Ted Roche
On 06/07/2010 10:34 AM, Mark E. Mallett wrote: > No moinmoin? (python based, flat storage) Yeah, moinmoin rocks, too. That's one of the problems - I think there are hundreds of wiki applications. And I've installed and played with a dozen or so over the years. I thought I'd pick a simple minimal

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 07:33:35PM -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > > Twiki, written in Perl, running gnhlug.org (http://twiki.org) > MediaWiki, written in PHP, storage in MySQL, which runs Wikipedia.org > (http://mediawiki.org) > Dokuwiki, also in PHP (http://www.dokuwiki.org/) > Redmine, written in Rub

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Ted Roche
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > >  Counterpoint: As a wiki user/editor, I don't care what the backend > is, anymore than I care what brand of hard disk is used in the server > hosting it. > Absolutely true. Users shouldn't care about who manufactured the tires on their Ex

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > The idea of using a modern version control system as the data store is > intriging. Counterpoint: As a wiki user/editor, I don't care what the backend is, anymore than I care what brand of hard disk is used in the server hosting it. -- Ben ___

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Ted Roche
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > I'm pretty sure that I won't be able to make it to this meeting, but > would still like to contribute a pointer to Wikkid: > >    https://launchpad.net/wikkid > Cool! Have you used it? Anything really cool or really lame about it? T

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ted Roche writes: > > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Martin Ledoux wrote: > > Any thoughts on including MindTouch (DekiWiki) in the mix? > > Sure! If you're coming to the meeting, I'd like to hear about it. I > just chose a few I had worked with recently and would feel comfortable > talking abo

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-06 Thread Ted Roche
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Martin Ledoux wrote: > Any thoughts on including MindTouch (DekiWiki) in the mix? > Sure! If you're coming to the meeting, I'd like to hear about it. I just chose a few I had worked with recently and would feel comfortable talking about. I'm always interested in he

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Ledoux
Any thoughts on including MindTouch (DekiWiki) in the mix? On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > The monthly meeting of the Central New Hampshire Linux Group, > http://www.centralug.org, takes place as usual on the first Monday of > the month. We're meeting at our summer location,

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-05 Thread John Abreau
With a title like that, it's so hard to resist... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tigMpQ5j89s On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > The monthly meeting of the Central New Hampshire Linux Group, > http://www.centralug.org, takes place as usual on the first Monday of > the month. We'

[GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-04 Thread Ted Roche
The monthly meeting of the Central New Hampshire Linux Group, http://www.centralug.org, takes place as usual on the first Monday of the month. We're meeting at our summer location, the Hopkinton Public Library (http://www.hopkintontownlibrary.org), which never fails to baffle Ben by being located i