Welcome to the HacDC Wiki

For more concise information on HacDC and its events, please consult our main web page and blog at hacdc.org

We DO use our wiki for these purposes

• Collaboration: Wikis excel at collaboration. Wikis are made up of a series of unique pages with evolving content. A Wiki, as a whole is an organic means of organizing a chaotic lot of information among a vast group of people. It's also the best way for us to share our efforts with the rest of the world.
• Content Management: Wikis can hold a lot of content. Instead of trying to implement a complex CMS, assigning permissions, worrying about anonymous FTP, etc., we just say "throw it on the wiki".
• Reference: Who we are, What we do/did, When we do/did it, Where we do/did it, Why we do/did it and How we do/did it are all here. From our policies to our projects, it's all here somewhere.

We DO NOT use our wiki for these purposes:

• Home Page: Our home page is designed to quickly inform and promote HacDC to the outside world. We can embed static content into a regular homepage much more easily and safely than we can in a wiki.
• Promotion: That's why our | blog exists, to keep people informed on HacDC's projects and events.
• Discussion: That's what e-mail and IRC are for. While we encourage the active use of talk pages for specific project collaboration, we encourage group discussion through e-mail lists and our IRC channel.

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Getting started

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list