How should OWW best leverage existing software development efforts?
• MediaWiki • Jot/Google • Apple OS Next (e.g., an OS with a built-in wiki) • Other? • Sri Kosuri (talk): It’s somewhat silly to consider this question now. Currently, Jot/Apple is not available to us; and Mediawiki seems to be the best software for what we are doing. As opportunities arrive for better software in the future, the Steering Committee (w/ support by technical people hired by the grant) have already shown they are well positioned to make such decisions (i.e., private wikis, moving servers, user management system). • Skoch3 16:08, 23 January 2007 (EST): I was drawn to OWW by use of MediaWiki. I worried about setting up my lab on some framework that would not be available down the road. That is: I wanted longevity. I had looked into some other options. Social Text actually is a really great product. They do have an opensource version, but that is too complicated for me to deal with. But OWW was just almost perfect for me. Jot/Google lost out because, amazingly, while they do
