About MoinMoin

What is MoinMoin?

MoinMoin is a reliable and powerful wiki-software in many different possible scenarios.

• MoinMoin is a Wiki

• MoinMoin is a Collaborative_Software

Use Cases

• You can use it as

  • MoinMoinAsCrm (Customer Relationship Management Software)

  • MoinMoinAsPim (Personal Information Manager)

  • MoinMoinForCollaborativeWriting

The Others

• Other wiki software, see Comparison_of_wiki_software

  • MoinMoinVsMediaWiki

• E-mail - Electronic Mail

• Content_management_system (CMS)

• Microsoft_Office_SharePoint_Portal_Server

• Lotus_Notes

• Microsoft_PowerPoint

Our Goals

Define some objectives (What we want Moin to be, regarding peoples minds, look-and-feel, etc.)

• make MoinMoin more visible in the news.

• MoinMission

• visit /PublicRelations

• see /WhereToAnnounce

Our Action

Gather recommendations

• Define most important /MoinSwot (Strengths + Weaknesses + Opportunities + Threats) (FODA in Spanish!)

• Directly target specific user groups

  • Currently, MoinMoin is rather losely targeted. IMHO we can still tweak the feature list etc. to reach professional users. Maybe we want to copy competing products (e.g. TW***) partly in their feature list structure etc.

Implement them

• Define colors, images, etc., that will represent exactly what we need/want so someone can design a real logo and corporate identity (see MoinDev/MoinMoinLogo).

• See how far we can go with this

Comments

MoinMoin Desktop Edition

The DesktopEdition could be for MoinMoin what is Knoppix for Linux. We should move it on a toplevel page. May be setup.py should support building the packages. We should advertise it on a more prominent place in our wiki like MoinMoinFeatures, ... -- FlorianFesti 2004-12-16 14:12:11

• See DesktopEdition/HowToBuild for internals of the build.

Layout and elaborated authentification/rights is critical

IRC is not mine :-/, so here:

I am currently creating two collaboration-internet-platforms for a company (which is a 100% daughter of a large foundation, so not intended to really depending on making profit). Among others we now have choosen MoinMoin for first prototype. And now I am working hard to dig into the core. What I currently dig for is detailed documentation of the system itself. Precisely to code the known html feature of ImageMaps as macro. For me it still takes some work to step into the action/macro code and all the unknown dependencies. But why I write this here? E.G.: Is there an UML Classdiagram overview? Such documentation stuff could really push MoinMoin up the ranking for third parties to use it.

• No. But you may want to look at epydoc.

One of the top priority concerns that my customer had: Can we adjust the layout to have X? So besides functionality, getting exactly that layout that the customer imagines. And then comes access-rights (like e.g. TW.) and easinesss of expanding functionality. So the more time I need to get into the system, the less tasty MoinMoin is for companies. Time is crucial.

• You can change the layout easily, see HelpOnThemes. What do you mean by "TW"? You can change nearly anything of the GUI of MoinMoin using custom themes.

Maybe I can convince my customer to allow returning e.g. layout and some content results to MoinMoin, under GPL. (It would be one or two largely adjusted themes, more macros and some semantic navigation plugins. I am new to Python, so the code could then still be needing some workover. But I am already accustoming... -- AndreasHüwel 2005-02-09 17:08:11

• Nice to hear that.

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