Capturing your start-to-be with a wiki

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Does anyone know of a good FOSS product that emulates the functionality of Lotus Teamroom? I am anal about my organization and much prefer a directory structure for it's ease of organization. I currently use a hacked verstion of Relay (http://www.ecosmear.com/relay) with a custom written XML parsing function to add context to directory and files for my Wiki-/teamroom- like functionality. However, is there a good alternative to this that a reader knows of?

I saw a big momentum improvement in my startup as soon as I got a development server setup with Trac. The wiki on there has definitely given us a place to toss ideas around and to have them recorded. The problem with email is that things get too spread out across different threads. The wiki lets you structure it more permanently.

OR just start a blog....

The problem with a blog is the organization. Many times it is date and category based, and you can better sort a wiki. Also I have found the speed in editing and posting to the wiki to be faster and simpler.

Another issue unless your running your own blog is most blog services run public, and you probably just want to have the discussion with your co founders and advisers. Most blogs also don't provide revision support which we found to be very useful when multiple people are editing and working on a file, a good safety net.

Blogs are great for publishing and archiving those items, but not necessarily the best for continuous brainstorming.

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