On 5/31/07, Christopher Frost <frostcs at gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings Friends, > > We have been brainstorming a little bit recently about the direction > of > a Wiki being integrated into the OpenSolaris Structure. > > Currently we have a brief option listing at > http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolarisWiki > Which any volunteer/community-member has a right to comment on. > > I will be proposing a community sponsored project in the immediate > future and hope to gather a few more volunteers, a few more comments, > and perhaps a the support of the tools community. > > I can't even begin to name off what communities and projects would be > positively effected by this, I believe they all will be. > > To get to the point. > > This project would allow easier management of Communities, whether > community or Sponsor -sponsored (Such as Sun). > It would give Project, Community, and Portal groups easier maintenance > of their own pages and contributed information. > > I also hope this would allow any registered user to contribute to the > success of OpenSolaris, whether from the contribution of documentation, > suggestions, or simply help with the migration of vast information which > has never been consolidated into one place. > > I feel this is something the community should have input in, and not > just internal Sun staff. The Sun staff should take part in the > community, not have the community take part in Sun. > > Project Goals (so far) > 1) Place a wiki on the domain, or a subdomain of Opensolaris.org > 2) Integrate wiki with OpenSolaris's current user database. > 3) Migrate existing Community, Project, and Portal pages. > > I am in the process of tossing a wiki page up on Genunix, which will > consolidate ideas towards the proposal. I will be tossing a link up > later. We've brought up lots of details in the past couple weeks, which > can be repeated if those users feel they wish to repeat (I am not going > to quote anyone without permission). I'll let you guys elaborate further > if you wish. > > I have also cc'ed the docs community, because they are just one > community which would benefit from this structural change. > > Feel free to speak your mind.
I vote for twiki. As far as I can tell it meets all your requirements. The developers are very open to suggestions... The developers are also users of the product. I will volunteer to help admin and install if we use Twiki. (It also supports distributed administration, so that community leaders can be delegated community webadministration priveledges). Sun already uses Twiki elsewhere, we can leverage the admins experience if neccesary. (http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Main/WebHome) There are a ton of plugins as well. brian
