Date: Jun 06/04/10 7:33 PM Subject: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library From: 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 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 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/