[ProLinux] "Hey, WIki, you're so fine...." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010

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

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

Redmine, written in Ruby, which includes a wiki module.

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

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