Full information on BLU WikiMedia meeting
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 9:26 AM Subject: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, October 17, 2018 - QualityBox: a MediaWiki hosting service To: <announce at blu.org>, <gnhlug-discuss at gnhlug.org> When: October 17, 2018 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: QualityBox: a MediaWiki hosting service Moderator: Greg Rundlett , founder of eQuality Technology Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315 Please note that Wadsworth St is open from Memorial Drive to Amherst St, but is closed between Amherst St to Main St. See the ling below for additional details. https://courbanize.com/projects/mit-kendall-square/updates Summary: A guided tour of QualityBox, a MediaWiki hosting service Abstract: Greg Rundlett, founder of eQuality Technology, has created a hosted software service called QualityBox which is provides the wiki engine (MediaWiki) that drives Wikipedia. Like Wikipedia, QualityBox is instantly usable by the end-user. And like Wikipedia, it includes a huge number of configurations, extensions and customizations that make it supremely useful. Greg will take us on a tour of QualityBox, and the MediaWiki ecosystem to illustrate some of the features and capabilities that are available right ?out of the box?. Featuring: MediaWiki 1.31 LTS Visual Editor ElasticSearch (v5.6.10) Excellent Mobile support Modern and traditional layouts New dashboards Top to Bottom security upgrades Free SSL certificates Subdomain-based wiki farms And LOTS more. For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site http://www.blu.org Parking: MIT lots require permits after hours. All Cambridge parking meters use Passport by Phone: https://www.cambridgema.gov/traffic/Parking/paybyphone This is active on all Cambridge metered parking spaces. Meters are free after 8PM For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site http://www.blu.org -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce at blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 2:23 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote: > Next week's Boston Linux Unix meeting will discuss the MediaWiki platform > that is the new basis for both Boston.pm.org and wiki.BLU.org (as well as > some thing called Wikipedia). Greg the speaker is our hosting host. > > Perl Mongers welcome - BLU meets on the other aisle, same floor at MIT. > > See BLU.org ... > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Greg Rundlett (freephile) <greg at freephile.com> > Date: Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 09:17 > Subject: [Discuss] New BLU Wiki > To: blu <discuss at blu.org> > > > (was Followup from InstallFest regarding typing of non-ASCII characters > <http://www.blu.org/mhonarc/discuss/2018/10/msg00001.php>) > > In preparation for my BLU presentation next week about QualityBox, I turned > this conversation into a wiki page in the new BLU Wiki at > https://blu.qualitybox.us/wiki/Unicode Feel free to add/edit as you wish. > I > plan to use it as an example. For anyone who really wants to play around > in the new wiki, I suggest copying the page contents to your own user page, > and / or making a 'Sandbox' page > <https://blu.qualitybox.us/wiki/User:Greg/Sandbox>. > > Thanks, > > Greg > > Greg Rundlett > https://eQuality-Tech.com <https://equality-tech.com/> > https://freephile.org > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Bill Ricker bill.n1vux at gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
