[lug] Wiki server suggestions for small organization

[Bear Giles]

The other nice thing about Confluence is that it plays well with their
other products. A lot of us think of Jira in terms of software development
but it's really a generic (mumble) that just happened to have the first few
preconfigured implementations oriented towards software development and IT
support. You can set up to support anything that can be described as
'project management'.

For instance you if you're running a tech conference you might have a
technical track that has steps you would take when someone responds to a
CFP. You create a ticket when you receive a proposal and then the steps are
getting it reviewed, getting the final presentation materials, scheduling a
time slot, etc.

For an art gallery it could be a track that has steps for where the 'epic'
(in the software terms) is a new show and you create a ticket for each
piece of artwork submitted for display. It would cover review (do we want
to include it), how it will be delivered, how it will be returned, anything
special requirements for display, any legal issues (e.g., insurance), etc.

(I wish I could remember what (mumble) is. It's an actual category of
software but I'm drawing a complete blank on it now. If you're an advanced
user you can write your app in terms that make sense to you and use the
JIRA REST API to manage transitions between states. It seems like it's
extra work but it really isn't since you can have your business analyst
change the details via the usual Jira webapp without requiring you to
change your code if you implemented your code correctly. E.g., you get
options to display to the user via the REST call to get the list of
available next steps instead of anything hardcoded in your app.)

Bear

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 4:55 PM Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:

> Another vote for Confluence. I still have a paid license for a local
> version but I switched to the free cloud version a year ago. I would have
> gone with the first-tier paid account but it's $5/month/user AND minimum of
> 10 users. (Or was - they might have changed the terms.) I store a lot of
> stuff in it and would love to be able to share some work-related stuff with
> coworkers but I don't want to give them access to my list of movies to
> watch, etc. A second account and modest access control would be great and I
> would be willing to pay $10/month for it - but $50/month is too steep.
>
> I know - it's free, I could get a second account. I haven't ruled that out.
>
> And before I get yet another lecture on "why do you have work-related
> stuff on your personal confluence pages?" that's an oversimplification of
> the matter. I've been doing a lot of heavy devops for the past 18 months. I
> document the services we use at work on the work wiki. I document the
> services I've been setting up on weekends on my own test bench in my
> personal wiki. There's some overlap but less than you might expect.
>
> The 'problem' is that knowledge is fugible. Sometimes I encounter a
> problem at work that I've already solved at home. I'm not going to hit
> myself on the head with a rubber mallet so I forget what I learned earlier
> and can re-learn it at work, I'm going to build on what I learned earlier.
> That's easy for me to do - but without access control I can't share the
> pages with coworkers without also sharing things like the movies I want to
> watch when I have some free time. So, oh, in 2032 perhaps. Which is why I
> need to keep them in a list so I don't forget them in a decade.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 8:16 AM Davide Del Vento <
> davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No :-)
>> True WYSIWYG does not exist. The second S stands for "Similar", you can
>> pray it's close enough for what you need, ROTFL.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 8:06 AM Jonathan Eidsness <
>> jonathan.eidsness at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm hoping it was a typo...
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 8:03 AM Bucky Carr <bcarr at purgatoire.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you. I know what "WYSIWYG", but what does the second 'S' stand
>>>> for in the original posting, quoted below?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3/12/2021 8:00 AM, Jonathan Eidsness wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "What You See Is What You Get"
>>>> WYSISYG editors put in the formatting code for you so you don't have to
>>>> know anything about it.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 7:10 AM Bucky Carr <bcarr at purgatoire.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/11/2021 4:29 PM, Jed S. Baer wrote:
>>>>> > A WYSISYG editor helps here, of course.
>>>>>
>>>>> What does "WYSISYG" mean?
>>>>>
>>>>
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