Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: [EE] Fw: Cohousing/HOA Communication Software?

[Tim Mensch (tim-coho-l]

Terry (Sarito) Whatley wrote:
> We use twiki for our internal website at Nevada City CoHo.
I used TWiki years ago, and was actually responsible for setting one up 
for my current job, but I no longer recommend it. The bar is set very 
high for non-technical users, and frankly I believe that wiki-markup was 
a great, but transitional technology--and that WYSIWYG editing (like 
Microsoft Word or Google Docs) right on the web page is the way things 
should be. Upgrading it for security patches and new functionality is 
also non-trivial, unfortunately, and its mark-up language is very 
different than Wikipedia, which is the one that most users will be 
familiar with, if they're familiar with one at all. Once upon a time it 
was the coolest thing out there, but better systems have evolved.

As has been mentioned multiple times, Drupal is a good foundation for a 
site--and there are plug-ins for it that allow wiki-like behaviors (like 
creating a new page using CamelCase), as well as full visual document 
editing plug-ins that make editing pages as easy as editing a document 
in a word processor.

Tim

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Tim Mensch

In contract to sell a unit at Pleasant Hill Cohousing (CA), though accepting 
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