[sfWiki-devel] (no subject)

[Kye <kye...@mi...>]

Hello,

I am not a developer, though I do have a little bit of programming backgrou=
nd from a long time ago.

I would like to find out if sfWiki might work for me, to take care of a cer=
tain need--and if so, how I would go about using it.

I am trying to set up a pre- and post- conference discussion space.  I woul=
d like people to be able to post papers which others could then annotate, a=
s well as giving each participant a sort of home page where they could say =
things more informally,which, again, the other participants could comment o=
n.  I don't know a lot about Wiki, but it looks like something like Wiki co=
uld work very well for this.

Ideally, I would like all the participants to be able to read and write to =
any page at any time.  But I would not want non-participants to be able to =
change the pages, though it would be fine for others to be able to read the=
m.  Does this make sense?  

Does it seem to you that sfWiki would do what I need?  And if so, how would=
 I go about using it?  Ideally, I would like for someone to be able to go t=
o our website and from there, be able to get to a sort of a map of conferen=
ce-related change-able pages.  Is anything like this possible, for someone =
who doesn't have extensive development experience, or much in the way of a =
budget? 

I am woefully ignorant about the simplest of things:  what does it mean for=
 something to be installed at SourceForge?  what sort of server would be si=
milar?  what is a MySQL database?  Is that something that I would need to h=
ave on my own computer, or would it need to be on the server that hosts our=
 website?  what is CVS?

Is it possible for someone of my limited experience to use sfWiki, or is th=
ere something else you know about that would be more appropriate for me? 

Thank you,
Kye Nelson