RE: [Rainbowportal-devel] tale of 2 FAQs

[William F. <WF...@im...>]

Q:  Why aren't we using the Rainbow FAQ Module?  Hypocritical, no?

-----Original Message-----
From: rai...@li...
[mailto:rai...@li...] On Behalf Of
jon...@jo...
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 3:00 AM
To: rai...@li...
Subject: RE: [Rainbowportal-devel] tale of 2 FAQs

I still say.....
If the confluence exists, it should have all documentation.
If all the faq's are merged, it is not hard to maintain the list in both
places.

Same as for features. Once the list is complete in one place, it is not
that much extra work to
keep the same list on confluence.  It takes maybe 5-10 mintues to
convert a page from it's html or
plain text on rainbowportal to it's wiki form in convluence.

Confluence also has all teh nifty export features built in, so ti
becomes mighty easy to post the
page as rss or export as word, and display that list on rainbow
portal.net so now you are only
maintainging one list.=20

another option is to port everything on wiki to rainbowportal but that
proably can't happen now
until you have the wiki modules... or som plan of how to do this.

For example, in the qa site i have content from the wiki posted
http://d240194.u37.webhostingconsort
ium.net/site/309/default.aspx


----- Original Message -----
From: Mark McFarlane
To:  <rai...@li...>
Sent: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:32:59 +0300
Subject: RE: [Rainbowportal-devel] tale of 2 FAQs

Mike and Chris both have volunteered  to move FAQ's from Confluence to
Rainbowportal.net
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I propose we wait another 2 days to make sure there are no overwhelming
objections.
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I'd also like to hear from *Manu* since he has posted some of the
content on
Confluence.
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  _____ =20

From: rai...@li...
[mailto:rai...@li...] On Behalf Of
Mike
Stone
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 7:06 AM
To: rai...@li...
Subject: Re: [Rainbowportal-devel] tale of 2 FAQs


I agree, Rainbow is the place for it. I bow my offer to you to merg
them.
..
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Mike Stone
Director of Computer Information Services
Kaskaskia College
27210 College Road
Centralia, IL 62801
618-545-3201
www.kaskaskia.edu

>>> ch...@cf... 4/13/2005 21:35:53 >>>

Mark,
  Well thank you for calling mine the prettier one.  I'll merge them
into
the web one.  I started the FAQ on the rainbow
site and didn't even know there was one on confluence(remember that
coordination thing?).  The whole thing about a=20
FAQ is that it should be easy to find.  Newbies are the ones who need it
and
they don't know the way around. =20
Its hard enough to find on the rainbow page, confluence just isn't the
place
for it. =20

Chris Farrell


At 08:12 PM 4/13/2005, you wrote:


We currently have 2 FAQs
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One  with a small amount of content here:
http://support.rainbowportal.net/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId
=3D34=20
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And another here with more content (and its prettier):
http://www.rainbowportal.net/site/support/3424/DesktopDefault.aspx?suppo
rt
<http://www.rainbowportal.net/site/support/3424/DesktopDefault.aspx?supp
ort&
tabid=3D3424> &tabid=3D3424
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1) Which one should we keep?
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2) Who will volunteer to merge the content?
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Mark
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