[Tfug] Collaborative editing environments?

[Tom Rini]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Claude Rubinson <cjr at grundrisse.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm revisiting the issue of collaborative editing with my non-Unix
> using colleagues.  To date, I've usually just used OpenOffice (now
> LibreOffice), they use MS Word, and we just email drafts back and
> forth.  It works, but is rather painful and differences between the
> Windows and Linux and/or Word and OOo continually cause
> minor-but-annoying problems.
>
> Google Docs seems to be continually improving and I'm thinking that it
> might be the best choice at this point.  We certainly don't need all
> the capabilities of a full-fledged word processor and Google Docs now
> has a pretty decent revision history mechanism.  I try to avoid the
> Google monolith when possible but if Google Docs supported Emacs-style
> keybindings, it would be a no-brainer.
>
> I'm not willing to force my colleagues to use a wiki or anything like
> that; the barrier to entry needs to be low.  Any suggestions besides
> Google Docs?  (AbiWord has a collaboration model and has limited
> support for Emacs-style keybindings but its development seems pretty
> stagnant, so I hesitate to throw my hat into that ring.)

I've had a lot of luck with google docs, for both word and spreadsheet
and it's really gotten nice.

-- 
Tom