Leaving PBWorks for FOSWiki
The creation and development of any projects (mobile applications & video-games here) need method and rigor in order to quickly move forward and not get lost along the way. To manage our projects, team as well as external contractors I have been advised to create a Wiki and so far, it was a very good piece of advice! I like the fact that I can start a page (ideas, scenarios...) and that everyone (that I accepted) can edit and enhance it...etc. I chosen to use PBWorks' Wiki service because I used to have an account on the Ogilvy 360's Wiki (hosted on PBWorks) and I just loved it. It's simple, clean, powerful with tons of options and so far I'm still very satisfied even though our organization its way smaller than Ogilvy's. Now that the team is growing (7 people now, certainly more quite soon) and with the appearance of freelance, the free version will soon be not enough (in term of security and confidentiality, particularly) so we decided to subscribe to a premium plan. In France we say that any work deserve a salary (it's not always respected I know...) and we're happy to support services (Checkvist, 16bugs and Balsamiq for instance) that makes our life easier, but for that the pricing plan must be "fair" to everyone, which PBWorks' one isn't. Indeed, the Standard plan (that suits our needs) cost 8$/m (which is OK) per users (which is absolutely not). 8$/m per user?! How is possibly sane to create a Wiki and base your pricing plan on the number of users?! Can you imagine that it will cost me 672 fucking dollars per annum for the whole team and that only for a Wiki?!
Honestly what are the difference of cost of 5, 10 or 15 people writing few kb of data (our Wiki are only composed texts after all)? Very few indeed, but I'll quickly know the answer because this morning I start to save all our pages and start to set-up a FOSWiki on our server. Cost so far ? 0$. Nevertheless, I'm still very frustrated because I'm really not sure that FOSWiki's services is as good as PBWorks' one, but time will tell.
Update : This post has been deleted by...I don't know whom (not me anyway), so there is a repost.
