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

[Jon Spriggs]

You might find Horde (a PHP webmail and groupware suite) would be useful,
and it provides a VCS front-end which I found works quite well as a document
management tool, especially if you use Webdav

Regards,
-- 
Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs


On 23 July 2010 21:42, Far McKon <farmckon at gmail.com> 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 :)
>
> hack on,
> - Far McKon
>
> http://www.Hive76.org  "Making things awesome,  making awesome things!"
> http://www.FarMcKon.net "Creatively Maladjusted"
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Christopher J. Pilkington <cjp at 0x1.net>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:44:54PM -0400, Matt lehner wrote:
> >> I would be interested in helping with this project. Here in Buffalo we
> >> are using meetup.com to schedule our events. It works fairly well, but
> >> it is a paid service and I would like to not have that monthly expense
> >> forever.
> >
> > meetup.com is horrid to deal with, but here in Syracuse we are
> > using it because they seem to be very good at SEO and promotion
> > of the (as yet unestablished) hackerspace to people who indicate
> > their interests are similar to ours.
> >
> > -cjp
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