Re: Plone manuals and Connexions (cnx.org)

Hi,

On 7/27/11 12:08 AM, T. Kim Nguyen wrote:
> At the Plone Symposium 2011 at Penn State the keynote was by Connexions (http://cnx.org).  Their service allows content creators to reuse and remix anyone else's content hosted on their site, whether that's books or technical manuals, by taking the parts of a document they like, changing some of it, or adding/removing other parts, and making a new version of a document.
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> I thought about how University of Wisconsin Oshkosh has created its own Plone user manuals (http://www.uwosh.edu/training/training-manuals/) for Plone and Plone forms, and how we had to create them by cutting and pasting portions of the Plone user manual on plone.org, adding our own screen shots, and our own text.
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> Ideally, if the Plone user manual and other documentation currently on plone.org were to be hosted on cnx.org, any organization or integrator or client could take one of any number of variants of the cnx.org Plone manuals, modify it slightly and make it their own very easily.
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> I'd like to know what you think of this idea.  Is this something we could try pursuing with one of the shorter Plone manuals?


I don't understand (probably because I am not familiar with the 
Connexions service). Can you give a more practical example?

In general, it sounds fine but I think a "real life example" might 
facilitate a better discussion about what exactly is being offered here. 
And what may be involved in achieving it.


Alex



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