Hi OG developers! (also Christoph, Chuck)
first off thanks to Dom for hosting copenhagen.openguides.org, yippee, I can see the first entries appearing already. Everybody say hello to Rikke who I met at WikiSym and asked if she could set up an Openguide for Copenhagen!
Also, a second request for an Open Guide from some nice guys I met at WikiSym06. Everybody, meet Christoph (sauer@hs-heilbronn.de) and Chuck (chuckssmith@gmail.com). Christoph and Chuck, meet the Open Guides developers list :-) (http://openguides.org/mm/listinfo/openguides-dev)
Christoph and Chuck work at the i3g Institute of the Hochschule Heilbronn in Germany, they'd like to set up an Open Guide for Heilbronn. I got talking to them both at the markup workshops, we were working on the WikiCreole proposals - http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Home
These guys know their way round wikis, Chuck is the founder of Esperanto Wikipedia, and head developer of WikiWizard (http://www.jspwiki.org/wiki/WikiWizard), Christoph founded WikiWizard and does a lot of JSPWiki work.
So what they'd like to do is to to run an Open Guide to Heilbronn, heilbronn.openguides.org on JSPWiki. Chuck says they can host it on their server.
Is this possible? Sorry for being the proverbial non-techie as usual :-)
Anyhow, you've now got each others emails, consider yourselves introduced, chat away!
all the best
Mark (Milton Keynes Open Guide)
Mark Gaved Knowledge Media Institute The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes, UK MK7 6AA
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:46:36AM +0100, M.B.Gaved wrote:
So what they'd like to do is to to run an Open Guide to Heilbronn, heilbronn.openguides.org on JSPWiki. Chuck says they can host it on their server.
Is this possible? Sorry for being the proverbial non-techie as usual :-)
Hi Mark, Heilbronn guys,
I'm afraid that I don't really see how a city guide running on another engine could be an "Open Guide" - even if JSPWiki was able to store the same sort of structured metadata that OpenGuides is, I don't think it would work out. All the other guides share a codebase as well as a philosophy, which allows shared development. Dealing with a completely different engine probably wouldn't work too well for us.
Sorry,
Earle.
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