What about writing the software yourself?
Then you can make it what you want, including free or cheap and open source.

I'm being half sarcastic. It sounds like there is probably a real market
for such a thing, but it's hard work, so it's expensive to buy.

Andy

On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 13:50 Steven Kenney <st...@wavedirect.org> wrote:

> Yes I have in fact.  That whole atlassian suite looks good but none of it
> is open source.
>
> [image: logo] <https://www.wavedirect.net/>
> <https://www.facebook.com/ruralhighspeed>
> <https://www.instagram.com/wave.direct/>
> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/wavedirect-telecommunication/>
> <https://twitter.com/wavedirect1>
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> * STEVEN KENNEY *
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> ------------------------------
> *From: *"Josh Baird" <joshba...@gmail.com>
> *To: *"af" <af@af.afmug.com>
> *Sent: *Thursday, October 8, 2020 1:26:10 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Documentation / KB Software
>
> Have you looked at Confluence?
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 11:58 AM Steven Kenney <st...@wavedirect.org>
> wrote:
>
>> OneNote isn't what I'm looking for.  Think of a repo of documentation,
>> howto's faq's articles.  All sorts of content for technical documentation.
>> I'm not looking for something that makes and stores forms and files.
>> Something that can be indexed and easily searched,  and displayed nicely
>> for the average user.  I mean I literally have people complaining to me
>> that Trello is too difficult to learn on their own.
>>
>> [image: logo] <https://www.wavedirect.net/>
>> <https://www.facebook.com/ruralhighspeed>
>> <https://www.instagram.com/wave.direct/>
>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/wavedirect-telecommunication/>
>> <https://twitter.com/wavedirect1>
>> <https://www.youtube.com/user/WaveDirect>
>> * STEVEN KENNEY *
>> DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY A: 158 Erie St. N |
>> Leamington ON
>> E: st...@wavedirect.org | P: 519-737-9283
>> W: www.wavedirect.net
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From: *"Adam Moffett" <dmmoff...@gmail.com>
>> *To: *"af" <af@af.afmug.com>
>> *Sent: *Thursday, October 8, 2020 11:37:49 AM
>> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Documentation / KB Software
>>
>> I messed with OneNote.....it actually is extremely awesome.  I made a
>> tower info template in 1/2 an hour, I could start slapping in data in a
>> consistent format very easily.  Dragging in pictures, text, videos, etc is
>> straightforward.
>>
>> Then I hung up on two things....One was where is stuff actually stored.
>> It seemed like if I made something, it's stored in my Microsoft cloud
>> account, and if another guy made something it's stored in his Microsoft
>> cloud account.  If one of us leaves the data needs to be persistent and
>> stay with the company somehow.  There's probably a way to handle that, but
>> I didn't get as far as figuring that out.
>>
>> 2nd thing was versions.  I had Office 2016, another guy had a different
>> edition.  There were things I made and shared with him that looked all
>> wrong or non-existent when he viewed them.   I think you'd have to commit
>> to Office365 so everybody would always be on the same rev.  But then I was
>> kinda put off that the issue came up at all.  Suppose I put time into a
>> great looking tower site doc with drawings and the whole 9 yards.  Then I
>> don't need to look at it again until 2025.  Is it gonna be all screwed up
>> now in the 2025 revision of OneNote?
>>
>> Convince me it's all gonna be ok and MSFT won't screw me up.
>>
>>
>> On 10/8/2020 10:17 AM, Steven Kenney wrote:
>>
>> Microsoft is a actually a 4 letter word.  Did you know that?
>>
>> [image: logo] <https://www.wavedirect.net/>
>> <https://www.facebook.com/ruralhighspeed>
>> <https://www.instagram.com/wave.direct/>
>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/wavedirect-telecommunication/>
>> <https://twitter.com/wavedirect1>
>> <https://www.youtube.com/user/WaveDirect>
>> * STEVEN KENNEY *
>> DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY A: 158 Erie St. N |
>> Leamington ON
>> E: st...@wavedirect.org | P: 519-737-9283
>> W: www.wavedirect.net
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From: *"Steve Jones" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>
>> <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>
>> *To: *"af" <af@af.afmug.com> <af@af.afmug.com>
>> *Sent: *Thursday, October 8, 2020 9:51:42 AM
>> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Documentation / KB Software
>>
>> Onenote is what I settled on.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 8:20 AM Steven Kenney <st...@wavedirect.org> wrote:
>>
>>> We have a wiki,  however I'm looking to upgrade and provide something a
>>> little more user friendly so all the non technical folks can share
>>> documentation.  I'm looking on prem open source something that is NOT
>>> wordpress based.  I've seen many CMS' out there but none of them have the
>>> look and feel that we want.  It must be simple to add content such as
>>> howto's, guides, faqs etc.  All the documentation a medium sized company
>>> growing quickly into a large company will need.   I guess it would be
>>> considered a KMS.   It must have a good API.
>>>
>>> One system that really piqued my interest is Document360 however it
>>> isn't open source, nor on prem and its ungodly expensive.   So if you know
>>> something similar please advise.  What do you use?
>>>
>>> [image: logo] <https://www.wavedirect.net/>
>>> <https://www.facebook.com/ruralhighspeed>
>>> <https://www.instagram.com/wave.direct/>
>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/wavedirect-telecommunication/>
>>> <https://twitter.com/wavedirect1>
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/user/WaveDirect>
>>> * STEVEN KENNEY *
>>> DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY A: 158 Erie St. N |
>>> Leamington ON
>>> E: st...@wavedirect.org | P: 519-737-9283
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