“But for anything but the tiniest organization outsourcing your VCS to github is not a practical option.”

Github also has paid accounts for companies. Granted their prices are high, IMO, it is an option.

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Groowiki is also a front-end to svn that makes it easy to browse, but you can also upload and modify properties. This fits mainly when you store ofiice documents in your repo and work with external experts, who may not be familiar with svn or just simply do not want to install a client software.

I hope it also makes SVN more usable, better.