From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 13 12:46:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2A616A40F for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:46:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF06F13C441 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:46:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from working (c-71-60-174-60.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [71.60.174.60]) (AUTH: LOGIN wmoran, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:46:57 -0500 id 000564A9.45A8D4C1.0000678A Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:46:55 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20070113074655.c928d749.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <20070113033940.31500.qmail@web35311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20070113033940.31500.qmail@web35311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Organization: Collaborative Fusion Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.10 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [OT] advice on wikis and bulletin boards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:46:58 -0000 Andrew Gould wrote: > > Strategic planning will be starting soon at my new place of employment, > and I'd like to setup a place on our intranet to facilitate discussions > and planning prior to meetings to reduce meeting times and make > meetings more productive. This would be a new activity for this > organization, so we'll start with just our own office. User permissions > will be needed for security. > > I've used bulletin boards before (phpbb); but they don't seem to be > well designed for group editing of documents. I've noticed that wiki's > have become very popular; but I'm not sure how well they facilitate > discussions. > > Does anyone have any advice or suggestions? Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so. Wikis are good for group-developed documentation and similar. We used one extensively when we used a committee to rewrite the local LUG's bylaws and it was very helpful. I don't think Wikis are good for group discussion, however. For that I would fall back on a mailing list. Use something like Mailman that has archiving capability. For that same committee work, we also had a dedicated mailing list -- the two went hand in hand, and I don't think the wiki would have been nearly as useful without the mailing list. -Bill