[hackerspaces] Collaborative coding - lowering the entry barrier for beginning hackerspaces

[Matt Joyce]

nycr uses google stack

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Matt <brimstone at the.narro.ws> wrote:

> On 07/23/2010 03:42 PM, Far McKon wrote:
> > As much as I don't like google, our stack was quick to setup and get
> > using/rolling/active. It took about 2 days to set everything up.
> >
> > current Hive76 stack:
> > Wordpress Weblog
> > Mediawiki Wiki
> > google for domains for private Docs, mail, calendar mgmt (which works
> great)
> > Door access - custom astrix setup.
> >
> > using google for domains, anyone can push events to our calendar via
> > their XXX at hive76.org email address, and can make their own posts and
> > events.  We also can share documents to everyone on @hive76.org
> > easily, and we can quickly setup forms for class info, login, etc.
> >
> > I would like to switch to crabgrass or Open Atrium for tasks/etc, but
> > google right now is beating it on features, so I lose that argument
> > with our CTO, who is pretty sharp and setup most of our system. If
> > someone has a good non-google system with easy private doc and
> > calendar integration, let me know. i'd love to have some good ammo for
> > that discussion :)
>
> Sorry to come in late to this discussion, but Makers Local uses OSS
> Zimbra as a central point for email, docs, calendar, tasks, and most
> importantly authentication. We then have Wordpress using Simple LDAP
> Login[1] and MediaWiki using LDAP Authentication Plugin[2] to
> authenticate off Zimbra and automagically setup accounts for
> members. It's now all self hosted off a oss Xen server. We don't
> have a great way for doing classes yet, just a scraper off our wiki
> or the internal calendaring in Zimbra.
>
> I'd like to find a good project/event manager that tied into LDAP as
> well as provided ICS files or published to caldav, but that's
> another story.
>
> Just my 2¢,
> #matt
>
> [1]
> http://clifgriffin.com/2009/05/13/simple-ldap-login-13-for-wordpress/
> [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication
>
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