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• Wikis for conference sites? (Score:2)

  by BooK (2612)

  Conferences sites are not communities, the point is to give information to people planning to attend. Not much discussion, just things like "here are some photos of the venue", or "Celebrity so and so confirmed they'll attend the conference". And the talks list, and the schedule. Not much room for people outside the small number of organisers to add information. I could also mention wiki spam.

  OK, I usually don't like to have to connect to a site to check if anything happpened (conferences are slow to organ
  • Re:Wikis for conference sites? (Score:2)

    by merlyn (47)

    OK, I usually don't like to have to connect to a site to check if anything happpened

    That's why the only URL I usually bookmark for a wiki site, especially a conference, is "recent changes".

    Some wikis provide that as an RSS feed too. Cool.

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    • Re:Wikis for conference sites? (Score:2)

      by BooK (2612)

      Oh yes. Someday, I'll try to find out what that RSS thingy is. And bookmarks, too. It's just that I'm lazy, you know. :-)
  • Re:Wikis for conference sites? (Score:1)

    by ambs (3914)

    BooK, at the moment we are using a wiki because it is much easier to us to maintain the page. For example, COG works where just HTTP can be used (almost). So, using HTTP to make he edit the page is nice.

    More, unfortunately, kwiki does not support anymore private or protected page. I'm always asking INGY when we will have it again, but it seems we will not.

    Regarding spam, I'm doing regular backups of that page. If they come, we will remove it.

    And, now, the questions to you: what is the YAPC::EU mailing li
    • Re:Wikis for conference sites? (Score:2)

      by BooK (2612)

      The mailing list is conferences[AT]yapceurope.org. See http://www.yapceurope.org/contact.html [yapceurope.org]. To subscribe, send a email to majordomo[AT]yapceurope.org, with the line subscribe conferences in the message body.

      As for Act (A Conference Toolkit), development should start again Really Soon Now. Several conferences organisers have asked for it, and we really want to deliver this tool/service to the Perl community.