Hi Nick, Sounds like the pro's heavily outweigh the cons
+1 On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Nick Burch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > We're about to want to setup a wiki page for the pre-ApacheCon BarCamp in > Portland. In the past, we've normally used a page on barcamp.org for the > ApacheCon BarCamp, however we've increasingly had problems with > availability, difficulty of signing up to be able to edit (to help or to > sign up), problems with the pbwiki platform and the markup we wanted etc. > > So, I was wondering about suggesting that we just use a page on > wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ for the barcamp (details, signup etc). It's > simple, we can allow anonymous edits for the duration to make signup easy, > it supports the markup we need, and we get change notifications. We can put > a stub page on barcamp.org to point to it, to help people find it that > way. > > I know other barcamps have given up on the barcamp.org pbworks platform, > and gone with their own wikis, so it's not unprecedented. What do people > think though? > > Nick > -- *Lewis*
