[AniMov] Re: hi

[Sander Oom]

Hi Paolo,

Thanks for you email. I am keeping well. Busy organizing a workshop on the 
use of GIS and remote sensing in savanna ecology. Their is increased 
accessibility of remote sensing data for African countries, which opens up 
many new possibilities.

I have also had a play around with AdeHabitat and my data, and I thought a 
bit more about the AniMov/AniMove project.

I do not want to make trouble, but I really think the project should be 
named Animove, not AniMov. The latter sounds like a machine gun of Russian 
design. I think it is not too late to change it. The mailing list can stay 
as it is, though.

I also think we are in need of a Wiki. I spend several hours (not 
exaggerating) editing some pages on Wikipedia. Now that is collaborating 
the way it was meant to be. It will solve the problems of trying to edit a 
web site together, and it will make the process much more democratic. It 
will also relieve you off the effort to maintain the web site!

We could either use a Wikifarm (i.e. a hosted wiki, some are free for 
non-commercial use) or you could set up a wiki on the faunalia web site. We 
could also try to use sponsor money to get a wiki commercially hosted, 
although this will make us dependent on sponsoring to maintain the wiki. I 
could not find an option to create a wiki on alioth.debian.org or sourceforge.

Considering that the project would involve code snippets more than one 
single code base, a wiki might be more suitable then either a 
alioth.debian.org or sourceforge project!? I just can't wait to start 
editing the project pages on a wiki. I must say it is rather addictive!

Let me know your thoughts!!

Sander.

PS check the following links:

One of my fieldwork sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suikerbosrand_Nature_Reserve

Good review of wiki software:
http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2004110800226RVNT

Possible candidates:
http://www.splitbrain.org/dokuwiki
no database, but files in text format

http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/
beautiful interface

http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de
ease of use and pretty to look at!

http://www.seedwiki.com/
free wikifarm, i.e. wiki hosting

The Wiki Way: Collaboration and Sharing on the Internet
by Bo Leuf, Ward Cunningham
Paperback: 440 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.89 x 9.20 x 7.35
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; Bk&CD-Rom edition (April 3, 2001)
ISBN: 020171499X

At 10:59 2004/11/13, you wrote:
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>Hi Sander.
>You've been quite silent lately. Are you well? We're playing with Clement R
>program, and it's very impressive.
>I think it'll be easy to fill the gaps, and get a good AniMov (with GIS
>integration).
>All the best.
>pc
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>Paolo Cavallini
>cavallini at faunalia.it   www.faunalia.it   www.faunalia.com
>Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy   Tel: (+39)348-3801953
>http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
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