Joe, We use Mindtouch at work to collaboratively edit doc. Their open source version is a very good Wiki with a WYSIWYG editor, and their commercial version is marketed as a knowledge base. It's nice to work with. It even supports DITA. Take a look.
--Fred On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 20:02:14 -0400 "Joseph Apuzzo - [email protected]" <+mhvlug2+trace+48ef5e5b28.japuzzo#[email protected]> wrote: > I work with a group of people and support one of 8+ complex HPC > applications. > We in turn work with 10-30 developers and 100 releases etc. etc. > > So we have a pile of information that needs to be shared. Thus most > of this information is in a simple Wiki > But the server is corporate control and due to me migrated to some new > Lotus project etc etc. ( you know were that ends ) > > So I was thinking of moving the data to a local server that only our > department needs access to. > It needs to be accessed via standard web browser, sharing a txt or > doc file is not going to work. > Here is the real question, is there a web application that in effect a > group of people could use to create a "book" > That is each team create a section on there own product etc. then this > information could be rendered as a PDF? > > As a PDF all users could then have an offline version and would be > accessible via any OS or device ( like a pad etc ) > Every time I Google this, for book or manual it gives me books or > manuals on web servers, not servers or applications that can create a > pdf document. A good example would be FLOSS Manuals, but it's not > apparent what software they run or how to duplicate it. > > Help! > --Fred Mora _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Sep 5 - OpenStack Oct 3 - Mobile Web Development Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art
