what ype of app? port of "*free*"-service app?

[Bob McConnell]

From: Gary Kline
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:08:11AM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote:
> > On Behalf Of Gary Kline:
> > > 
> > > This is a bit hard to figure out how  to phrase, so please bear
> > > with me.  I want to put-back a BBS/forum type app somewhere on my
> > > site so that members of my writing group can continue to help me
> > > with their suggestions and edits of my Jottings project.  Some 
> > > people are taking a break for the summer, &c.
> > > 
> > > I've had PHPBB up a few times, and lost it as many times for
> > > different reasons.  It takes about an hour to set up one of these
> > > ``forum'' applications; I don't know about the others.  
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have a best-win/solution as to which port/package to
> > > use?   Or would it be just as good to go with a canned
> > > (javascript or other) app?
> > > 
> > > Again: the nutshell is to allow my fellow writers to comment-on,
> > > edit, suggest, critique, flame, whatever, my jotting meditation.
> > > [for now, the URL would not be published.]
> > 
> > Have you looked at any wiki software? I have Dokuwiki running on an
> > Apache server here at the office as an idea and collaboration
incubator.
> > There were over 1100 pages created on it the first year. It's all
> > written in PHP and was quite simple to set up. You can get it at
> > <http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki>.
> > 
> > Bob McConnell
> 
> thanks for the url, bob.  i'll pull it up next time i use a 
> gui mailer.  wiki would let us edit things.  IIRC.  but it may
> be over-kill too.
> 
> i checked out what was, i believe, "plone" last week.  i don't
> remember seeing plone on the opencma list.   
> 
> (still chewing it over with my fellow writers.    unfortunately,
> none is a techno-geek.)   i believe you that dokuwiki was easy
> to set up.   how easy is/was it to *use*, tho?  ---I'm following
> the gimp tutorial, but still cannot get anything to work.  
> so if there are docs for this wiki software, they've got to be 
> fairly well tested.

There is an active group of folks using and maintaining Dokuwiki. That
link goes to their wiki where they are using it for documentation.
Access control is flexible, but optional. There was a new release in the
past month or so which included support for a WYSIWYG editor plug-in.
Without that, you do need to learn a few specific markup conventions,
but they were never very difficult. You can edit everything from your
browser. Footnotes, line-through deletion and other editing conventions
are supported. But the best part is the change tracking that is built
in. You can trace each and every change if you need to.

Good luck,

Bob McConnell