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On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 17:20 +0100, Iwein Dekoninck wrote:
> Hullo,
> 
> We've got a fair number of new starters at 3Sixty at the moment and
> we've realised just how much knowledge about how we do things is stored
> between our ears, rather than somewhere more accessible to others.
> 
> What we'd like to do is have some kind of massive FAQ/knowledgebase type
> thing going on. The main requirements for me are bloody great search,
> very easy to add KB article, tagging/categorising, and auto-compiling of
> lists.

> Would anybody have any recommendations as to what off-the-shelf package
> to use?

I had a go at writing something to solve this kind of problem a while
ago and
came up with Earl . It can be used as a kind of like a private
deli.icio.us with search , bookmarklets for most of the major functions
and click-thru tracking. 
It allows for categories of links and RSS feeds of pretty much every
view.

If you put your content in a wiki you could then add links to it to earl
for
easy searching via a firefox search plugin or via catagory based rss.

Its effectively open source ( i haven't had time to release it properly)
and
runs in Perl.  Although the web interface is a little old and may not be
up
to 3sixty standards (i'm not a frontend person) i would welcome your
enhancements and the chance to stop it festering.

If you'd like to try it have a look at the public version at
http://earl.amias.org.uk/ and register an account . Am happy to give you
a copy of the source under the GPL for free so you can have a play with
your own version. If you needed extra
stuff done it i'm sure we could come to an agreement about additions.

Toodle-pip
Amias
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