An Informl announcement

Howdy,

We've been working on an opensource wiki project for a while
and we think 
it's pretty cool, and we want to let more people know about
it. We thought 
the Instiki crowd would be a great place to start,
especially since we 
started with i2.  This wiki is built on Rails and lets you
create forms 
with an ActiveRecord focused database back-end.

Take a look at the project home page <http://informl.folk
logic.net/> 
(built, of course, using Informl).  The home page includes
some initial 
documentation and a link to a screencast that covers some of
the more 
unique features.  We've also put up a couple of live demos
for you to play 
with, which hopefully will convey what we're trying to do.

Try it out and let us know what you think.  The project is
currently alpha 
level, so don't be too surprised to find a bug or two. We're
looking for 
feedback on where to go next and for help on working on the
project.


Thanks,

Larry

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Hi,

Christian Lindig pointed out to me that the URL I sent in my
email didn't 
work -- I did say there might be a bug or two 

Anyway, the problem should be fixed now, so please try again
if your had 
problems before.


Larry


--On February 24, 2007 10:06:50 +0100 Larry Baltz 
<larry+instiki-usersfolklogic.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> We've been working on an opensource wiki project for a
while and we think
> it's pretty cool, and we want to let more people know
about it. We
> thought the Instiki crowd would be a great place to
start, especially
> since we started with i2.  This wiki is built on Rails
and lets you
> create forms with an ActiveRecord focused database
back-end.
>
> Take a look at the project home page <http://informl.folk
logic.net/>
> (built, of course, using Informl).  The home page
includes some initial
> documentation and a link to a screencast that covers
some of the more
> unique features.  We've also put up a couple of live
demos for you to
> play with, which hopefully will convey what we're
trying to do.
>
> Try it out and let us know what you think.  The project
is currently
> alpha level, so don't be too surprised to find a bug or
two. We're
> looking for feedback on where to go next and for help
on working on the
> project.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry




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--On February 24, 2007 17:06:00 -0200 zer0halo
<zerohalogmail.com> wrote:
>
> Looks very nice. Love the DB integration. I've been
hoping for something
> a little more powerful than i2 to emerge.

Well there's a lot of work to do.  I think Instiki users may
find Informl 
missing features.  If you do try it out and find your
"must have" features 
missing, please let us know.

> May I suggest setting up a trac system (retrospectiva
or collaboa) for
> feature requests, bug reports, etc?

That's a good point.  For the time being we have a RubyForge
project for 
Informl, which has issue tracking, forums and to-do lists. 
See 
<http://ru
byforge.org/projects/informl/>.  If you have
feedback, it's 
probably best to post it there.

> There seems to be a problem when scrolling on pages of
the wiki, using
> Firefox 1.5 on Linux.
>
> Good luck!

Will look into the scrolling issue you mention.  If you
could send some 
more details as to when the problem occurs (eg. in edit vs.
page view mode) 
that would be really helpful.

Larry




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Another wiki that lacks authentication?!


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--On February 25, 2007 17:11:19 -0600 mathew wrote:

> Another wiki that lacks authentication?!
>
>
> mathew

Yeah, authentication is pretty high on the project to-do
list.

What type or level of authentication would you need?  What
in Instiki works 
and doesn't work in the way of authentication?

We'll probably be looking at using an existing Rails
authentication scheme 
with an eye to allowing a coherent method across an entire
site that may 
contain other Rails built elements in addition to Informl. 
Has anybody 
used anything that plays nice with Rails apps?


Thanks,

Larry

P.S. we've added the "brain buster" plug in to
help prevent wiki spam, 
which addresses one element of why some wikis have
authentication.


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On 2/26/07, Larry Baltz <larry+instiki-usersfolklogic.com> wrote:
> What type or level of authentication would you need? 
What in Instiki works
> and doesn't work in the way of authentication?

Personally, I want OpenID support. An option for creating
local
username/password credentials would probably be a good idea,
for those
who don't like OpenID.

<URL:http://www.openidenabled.com/openid/libraries/ruby/a
bout>

The most important thing is I want it to work out of the box
without
having to write Rails code.


mathew
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