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Is there any open source user-guide type creation software available? Or is it best to use wiki type systems? We want to be able to create user guides on the fly through a web front end and accessible on the net. Or is this best achieved using Wikis?
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I use MediaWiki for a user-guide and help page at my company, and it works really well!
Create custom namespaces for different parts, and if you want to have access controls you can create different groups.
The extensions are great, because you can always find one to do anything you want (ie. print to PDF for an offline copy)
I'd strongly recommend using Wikis. As long as your chosen one's markup covers your needs, it's ideal for user guides.
This post is not 100% on topic - it's about creating user manual for the workplace (as opposed to the software) - but many ideas are still worth reading.
This is a good guide for using Wiki in knowledge sharing.
http://www.futurechanges.org/patterns/
We have used Wikispaces.com to create manuals and guides for several projects. Especially if you are a non-profit with a K-12 educational mission, then current setup for a Wikispace includes Private Projects so you can evolve documentation and make it public when it's appropriate to do so.
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I have an applicaion, that can best be described 'loosly' as a scripting application, primarly designed for part time developers, engineers and sciences types with a VB.NET background (can theoretically do C#).
This has been a long three year hobby and I am about 95% complete. I am planning to make the applicaiton freely available for most (if not all) uses, but I do not want to open source it (at least right now).
I was looking for an online place to post and collaborate with some folks for feedback, to get some testing done and finalize the application (my wife wants me to be DONE with it). My searches online have revealed many spaces, but all seem to be open-source spaces that require release of the source code, or just aplace to post 'free' completed software. I am looking for the collaboration part.
Can anyone point me to a such a space that does not require providing the open source code (if it even exits)?
I think you can use most of the collaboration places without actually uploading any source to the repository.
I've seen a bunch of project on Google Code Hosting that have no source (usually its then on GitHub) and just use the Google Hosting for bug-tracking and collaboration.
I created a BitBucket account. Looks like it might work. Many of the sites require you to choose an open source license before you even create a space. BitBucket does not.
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I am looking into creating a simplified version of a CRM without having to reinvent the wheel on some of the base functionality.
Would you please recommend an open source CRM product that I could use?
NOTE: I would be interested in solutions with PHP or Java.
Have you looked at SugarCRM? It's pretty mature so it might not meet your "simplified" qualifier, but if I were in your shoes I'd probably consider starting there. It started life as an open-source project and there is still a "community edition".
Consider, however, that I have little familiarity with CRM in specific, so I can't comment one way or another on the quality of SugarCRM. Good luck.
For me VTECRM 4 is the best! It's based on sugar and vtiger crm and it's easy to use. You can download it and customize. It's based on php - mysql and it's free. dowload link: http://code.google.com/p/vtecrm/source/checkout
If you want a simplifed CRM, SugarCRM is NOT the place to start.
Have a look at Tine2.0. It has a demo online, it's built with PHP and ExtJS (so it feels like a desktop application) and is very easy to modify, and has a sizable community behind it (though the owner had the "vision" to split it by language, so unless you read German well, you'll have to use Google translate most of the time)
It doesn't do Gantt charts, but it does tagging.
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My apologies if this is too subjective of a question.
I have a theory about wiki design; specifically, how a particular change to the model embodied by the wiki software would make the wiki revision process more closely resemble the open-source development process and thereby reap benefits that the current wiki model does not.
I would like to develop a proof-of-concept of this modified wiki design by finding an existing wiki package that I can alter. However, it's hard for me to find the optimum balance between the features I need and what my programming skills are actually up to.
I need wiki software that:
is open-source. This is a pretty non-negotiable requirement because otherwise I won't be able to test any modified version under real-world conditions.
implements revisions according to the standard wiki model.
implements security-protected user accounts. The security does not have to be defense-agency-grade, but it does have to take reasonable steps to see that no one can access the abilities available to an account except the owner of that account. (It's great if the software also allows anonymous and/or IP-based editing, but not crucial.)
is as simple and clean in design as possible. It's an extra bonus if it's written in Python or a similarly user-friendly language.
is as fully-featured as possible within the above constraints.
What do you recommend?
MoinMoin seems to meet your requirements (it's in Python, and under GPL; it's pretty feature-rich, including access control as you require).
Do you like Wikipedia? If so go for http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki It is PHP
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We want to implement chat on our website so that users can communicate with each other.
Our general requirements are:
It should be rendered on our web pages, but it could be rendered in an IFrame or something like that. The users of our website are part of the general public, not internal teams, so we don't want them to have to install a separate app.
Users should be able to use their existing account with our website and not have to create a new account for the chat tool. If we partner with someone, like Meebo, we don't want to have to share a significant amount of our user information for partner.
Code under an public license, but preferably not an open-source project using the GPL license, but BSD or MIT license (and probably others) is okay. An inexpensive product with a non-public license may be okay as well.
We want to get this implemented pretty quickly, and we don't really want to build our own solution.
Has anyone worked with or familiar with a solution that would satisfy some or all of these these requirements? Any other ideas/suggestions?
Thanks.
There are quite a few. As for open source try
https://blueimp.net/ajax/
If you need a heavy duty chat server with web based extension look at
http://www.igniterealtime.org
We currently used this internally in a Windows enviornment. We had some issues getting it to work with Active Directory so we went for the mySQL installation.
Why not shell out a few bucks for (sometimes it's cheaper NOT to re-invent the wheel)
http://www.aspnetajaxchat.com
Hope that helps
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I'm in the process of setting up a new website which would greatly benefit from having user-forums.
Since I already have user accounts, and profile details, stored away it seems that I'd benefit from choosing an open-source forum package which I could modify so that logins were tested against my existing database.
Right now all my site is Perl-based, and looking around I don't see many great Perl forums - the only obvious one I could find which is featureful is yabb - but that is written to authenticate against flat files and to be frank the code is nasty.
If I need to use a PHP solution then so be it, but first are there any simple forums that are written in perl that you'd suggest? I'd expect to have different forum-groups and nominate particular users as moderators. More than that I don't need, just basic threading and an attractive appearance.
Really simple forums are often really insecure forums. If you're determined to use perl, a major web forum doesn't come to mind, and if your competent in security I'd say roll your own. You could even release it to the open source community to help people like you. I know there are several great PHP ones out there that aren't so insecure an rather well developed.
I seem to remember that Drupal had a reasonable fit as a module.