Wiki

So you have heard of the Wikipedia.

What is Wiki? A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language.Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranets and Knowledge Management systems.

Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.

Here is our Wiki on Open source: http://ibexi.wikispaces.com/

Feel free to join in .. and contribute your ideas, suggestions and problems and solutions.

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Regards,
Surajit Basu

www.ibexi.com
Reflecting on the future

"Be the change you want to see"
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Back-up the data before the move

Hi !

We are now ready to start with the next major step: email.
The solution is Thunderbird 2.0, a product from Mozilla. There are also a couple of extensions that we will use : a British English dictionary and a Calendaring application - Lightning. I have been using these for months.

But before we do this move, the first thing - to minimise risk - is to take a back-up of all your data on the laptop/PC.

Use a USB drive/external hard drive/ network space, but please back-up the following:
a) Emails-all folders
b) Documents - Text, spreadsheets, presentation.

As I explained earlier, our first major stop will be common personal computing: browser, email, documents - text, spreadsheet, presentation, and media. We have a phased plan to move to these, with support for migration.
But some of you want to move faster than the group to the identified applications. Why not? Go ahead, try them out!
You do not need to remove your current applications.

Here are some of the software chosen for standardisation:
Browser: Firefox 3.0, IE 7.0
Zip: Jzip
Media: VLC Media Player, InfraRecorder
Email: Thunderbird 2.0
Documents: OpenOffice 2.0

But please do take a back-up first.

Secondly, to minimise the potential download problems, we will have for each site, 1 named person, who will have all the approved application software available at a common site on the network. So people need not download all the applications, they can just copy the software from the named locations.

Those of you who are not in an IBEXI office, and have no/very slow web access, and cannot easily do the downloads, please send Richa an email; we will find a way to help you.

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Regards,
Surajit Basu

www.ibexi.com
Reflecting on the future

"Be the change you want to see"
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi