[hackerspaces] Collaboration Software

[Walter van Holst]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:24:24 -0500, Rhys Rhaven wrote:

> That said, everyone view things a different way. Google groups 
> doesn't
> show any attachments/inlines to emails, and 90% of people don't know 
> how
> to manage an email list via rules. Also, setting up rules is kinda a
> pain. Then each project group will often spin off their own copies of
> these things.

Right now we have FosWiki (which does some stuff GoogleDocs does as 
well) and use mailman for mailinglists. I don't think it is unreasonable 
toe expect a participant in a hackerspace to be willing to learn to set 
up mail filtering rules.

Collaboration tools are a dime a dozen, one thing to keep in mind is 
what kind of collaboration you want. Is it aimed towards having a shared 
website? Or do you want one that is good for writing documents together? 
How tight do you want it to be integrated with other functionality, such 
as calendaring?

Regards,

  Walter