Fellow Monks I may have to set up a web portal or a wiki site for my dept and you guys are the first stop after a quick google. I have never set one up before but I was wondering if there's a good place to start for portals or wiki's out a can??

So far all I know is this..
web interface
IM capabilities
some profile type info
file uploads
uploaded updates get sent to the user group via email

now here's the chuckle from my first meeting with a none techie type...
"I belong to a yahoo group and I want those features for us, I reply that's a tall order.. why can't you just get the code from yahoo...??"

Currently I'm stuck on a windoze box but I may be allowed to use linux and apache for this but I really don't want to roll my own if a generic one is out there. I once used blackboard in college but I don't remember if all the features I'd need is in there, can't remember.

Any idea's on where to start? Thanks!

In reply to portals vs wiki by softworkz

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