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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:08:03 -0800
From:      "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To:        "Julian Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Reccomendation for tools to use on FreeBSD for a wiki ?
Message-ID:  <7d6fde3d0811191008u75552bcbkbca2c5c302435d94@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200811191724.mAJHOL8r062364@fire.js.berklix.net>
References:  <200811191724.mAJHOL8r062364@fire.js.berklix.net>

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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org> wrote:
> Hi hackers,
> Maybe Some of you might suggest some software I might install, Wiki I guess. ?
> I got zero response from ports@,  I could use some reccomendations please.
> PS From http://wiki.freebsd.org/HelpContents     I tried
>        cd /usr/ports/www ; vi *iki*/pkg-descr
>        or is /usr/ports/www/moinmoin  the way to go ?
> Thanks.
> -----------
>
> Subject: Reccomendation for ports for web based club events forthcoming diary ?
>
> Can anyone reccomend some ports to install on a FreeBSD web server,
> for a club of mostly non technical people, to support:
>  - All club members can add events to a forthcoming calendar,
>  - All club members can request server to prepare a listing
>    of next next upcoming events, to download (probably in PDF,
>    or perhaps tbl to a pipe or ?
>  - A list of moderators can delete fake events from robots & the malicious.
>  - Preferably moderators should not themselves be capable of
>    deleting logged event submission, but only capable of deleting
>    events formatted to the ouput printable programme sheet. (To
>    autopsy for suspect rogue moderators)
>  - I guess first entry criteria might be a fuzzy picture for human
>    to decode password from). 2nd might be mail return for confirm password,
>  - & 3rd, A majordomo (later mailman) maintained list of club members &
>    moderators etc is available for automated validation.
>  - I hope there will be some packages available,
>    http & probably wiki based etc, that will come close enough ?
> I'm hoping this has been done often enough that people can suggest
> names of ports already existing ? If not I dont mind creating a
> port if I have to, but dont want to write something from scratch.
>
> PS
> - - I've had apache up for years, but no wiki yet, so if any tips,
>  shout please, even if just RTFM URL=.... :-)
> - - Web based forums I don't care about, but others may, so I suppose if some
>  software does & does not support web forums, it'd be good to know.
>
> Suggestions welcome please ! Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Julian

Julian,
     FWIW, ports@ or questions@ would be better lists than hackers@.
Thanks,
-Garrett



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