UNC Linux Users Group

[Adam Constabaris <adamc AT unc.edu>]

hays AT ibiblio.org wrote:
> Adam,
> Just an idea (which are cheap), but how about a wiki instead? What I'm 
> thinking is something that would wind up like the php manual pages, so that 
> users could contribute expansions and variations that worked for them.....

bil, that's also a great idea; we're actually looking at implementing 
something like php.net's annotation system for help.unc.edu, which is 
currently geared to the "read only" web paradigm.   My offer was made in 
the spirit of requiring the minimal amount of effort from others, and 
I'm perfectly willing to admit that help.unc.edu as it stands is not 
ideal for a fast moving collaborative documentation project.  I will 
say, though, that it has a feedback mechanism which makes for the 
possibility of offering suggestions, so a responsive author would be 
able to make updates reasonably quickly.

All that said, If anybody wants to take the time to set up a wiki etc., 
I'm behind that and I'll even offer to contribute (when I get back from 
a short vacation, at least).

cheers,

AC




> --On Friday, June 16, 2006 1:02 PM -0400 Adam Constabaris <adamc AT unc.edu> 
> wrote:
>
> > Good stuff!  I know it comes up every three months or so, but it sure
> > would be nice to have some collaborative space where "unofficial" but
> > helpful documents of this nature could be stored, as a starting point.
> >
> > It so happens my day job is maintaining the ITS knowledgebase
> > (http://help.unc.edu), which is a system for distributed authoring and
> > publication of DocBook documents.  I'd be happy to take some documents
> > like Tim's and make them available through help.unc.edu (and elsewhere:
> > details available upon request), if the authors are willing.
> >
> > AC
>
>
>
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> bil hays
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