Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Wikis (was Research database?)

[Scott Nelson Windels (scott]

ken wrote:

> > We have not been 100% thrilled with Wikihost. After a lot of
> > research, we decided we preferred Mediawiki, which is the engine
> > behind Wikipedia. However by that time our wiki had gotten so big
> > that it was going to be a major undertaking to migrate to Mediawiki.
> > So to date, we've stayed with Wikihost.
>
> You're experiencing the good fun of the trial-and-error method, what
> that eighty hours of discussion should have avoided.

Just for data points we're using MoinMoin for our cohousing wiki.

> > We also sprung for a calendar program, Calcium Calendar, which has
> > made creating and updating our community calendar, previously a
> > difficult & thankless job, a collaborative & relatively painless
> > process. It cost about $100. Anybody with a login & password can
> > update the calendar, so changes and additions get made by the person
> > who knows the most about what's going on. This has renedered our
> > calendar an extremely useful communication tool. It's at:
> > http://www.austincohousing.org/calendar.html.
>
> There's a fairly nice calendaring system with all the features you
> mentioned available and a few more for free in yahoo groups.

We're using calendar.google.com for our group calendaring.  We're using 
spreadsheets.google.com for some online spreadsheets that we were having 
to share manually.  We used WebCal prior to switching to google calendar 
- and have really liked the functionality in google calendar much better 
- and it's a very simple interface.  It's also pretty easy to publish 
your community calendar with google i think.

Cohousing groups may be interested to know that Google is soon to offer 
a slightly integrated set of applications for small businesses that 
might suit coho groups too.

We're using WordPress with some sort of front end for our public facing 
website.


thanks
Scott Nelson Windels
Triple Point CoHousing
http://www.triplepointcohousing.org/