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

John Abreau jabr at blu.org
Sun Jun 6 02:25:33 EDT 2010


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 <tedroche at tedroche.com> 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, the Hopkinton Public
> Library (http://www.hopkintontownlibrary.org), which never fails to
> baffle Ben by being located in Contoocook. We typically start at 7 PM,
> and close up around 9 PM. Early arrival (6:30ish) is encouraged for
> Q&A.  There are many fine dining establishments in beautiful downtown
> Contoocook (Dmitri's - pizza, Riverside - sit-down American, Louie's
> Pizza, and Red Star Restaurant - Asian) should you choose to dine before
> the meeting, and one of the finest examples of an all-wood covered
> railroad bridge survives in downtown.
>
> The topic of the month is Wikis. "Wiki Wiki!" is Hawaiian for "quick,
> quick!" and is a pattern of presenting a read-write web site. There are
> more variations and implementations than grains of sand in the universe.
> but we'll look at a couple of them, specifically:
>
> 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 Ruby, which includes a wiki module.
> (http://www.redmine.org/)
>
> We'll talk a little bit about the range of markup languages, the
> technology behind the wiki, the social and community aspects of how a
> wiki works (or doesn't), and how Free/Open Source has played into the
> success of wikis.
>
> Recommended Reading: "The Wiki Way, Quick Collaboration on the Web" by
> Ward Cunningham (inventor of the wiki) and Bo Leuf, Addison-Wesley,
> 2001, ISBN 0-201-71499-X and http://wiki.org/. We'll have a copy there
> for your browsing.
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> --
> Ted Roche
> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
> http://www.tedroche.com
>
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