At yesterday's meeting, Lee Iverson gave a short
report on the concept of "WebLog" software, as
exemplified by the SlashDot website.
Lee mentioned that he had installed SlashDot, and
that it was a horrific process. He also mentioned
that it was bulletproof, once installed, and that
the WebLog concept, in general, would provide us
with a much more reasonable medium to track our
thoughts than an email archive -- with the added
benefit that we might choose to extend the system
we install, or at the very least reuse the information
stored in the database repository, rather than
having it sit in a virtually inaccessible email
archive. (SlashDot allows for adding comments,
evaluating comments, and evaluating the evaluators
--which affects the weighting of their evaluations.)
In all, he identified 4 possible candidates for
our use, most of which also came highly recommended
by Paul Fernhout in an earlier message.
Those candidates were:
* SlashDot (Apache, Perl, MySQL)
* PHP/SlashDot (Apache, PHP, MySQL)
* Zope (Python, MySQL)
* ArsDigita (Tcl, AolServer, Oracle)
One of this systems includes a Wiki-style collaborative
document system. Another possibility is to use WikiS
(the Squeak-based version) in conjunction with a WebLog,
to get the best possible combination of threaded discussions
and documents that summarize them.
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