[Trellis-developers] proposed website modification

[Shaddy Zeineddine]

Currently, we have a custom website that we put together and initially
this was my preference over a CMS or a wiki because we could make it
look any way we wanted. At that time I believe we had enough time to
justify maintaining a website. Recently, however, I feel that we should
reconsider.

The Trellis wiki is running on MoinMoin. It is a relatively popular wiki
with software projects and for good reason. It is packed with great
features while maintaining a clean interface. One notable site which
uses it is http://live.gnome.org. Their wiki has a customized look which
probably means we could customize the look of ours with relative ease.
These are some of the benefits we will see from using this wiki for the
website:

- it is easy to edit by anyone, anytime, anyplace
- it includes a built in search
- it has a familiar layout and will be easier to navigate
- it will be seamless with our wiki, since it would be one and the same
(also a more standardized look/feel)
- the public will be able to add their own pages/add to ours, this will
encourage participation
- users can bookmark pages of the wiki so that it shows up as a tab
- interwiki links are super easy to add as well as file attachments

in the end it will save us time, allow us to do more with the website,
be friendlier with visitors and us, and provide easy versioning.

it has advanced spam controls so this would not be an issue

How do you feel about this?