One of the things that we've been up to in the last week is looking into some sort of group collaboration software. It seems that it's only a bad idea if it's my suggestion. ;-)
We looked a a whole bunch of tools. Plone looked like superb software for doing loads of publishing style things that we don't really want to do, but it was way over the top for us. SquishDot was another tool we looked at. Again, very nice, but it's not so much discussions and announcements that we want it host as it is a repository for all the how-tos that we always sent around by email. And lose. Tracey seemed rather keen on SharePoint, but it seemed rather too structured to the rest of us. Besides, that Microsoft lock in is a bitch.
In the end, we've gone for a Wiki. We are using the MoinMoin engine - it's one of the most mature, it does everything we need, and it looks good. At least, some of the themes do. ;-)
We are unlikely to be exposing it to the outside world, though, I'm afraid.
Now, the main question seems to be what to call it. ElPresidente, sorry, El Presidente seems to be rather keen on "Skippy".
Posted to Software by Simon Brunning at August 16, 2004 01:40 PMRun like the wind away from sharepoint. It is complex, over engineered and therefore doesn't do the one thing that you will want from it well. It's only real selling point is that it allows you to index your file system, but if you are leaving all of your intellectual property in Microsoft Word files then you deserve everything you get.
Posted by: Andy Todd on August 16, 2004 03:29 PMHave you seen Trac? It's a weird cross between a Wiki, a Bug tracker and a Subversion repository. It's awesome - RSS feeds for everything, very smart interlinking of different bits and pieces, it's written in Python and it's open source. What's not to like? http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/
Posted by: Simon Willison on August 16, 2004 05:16 PM