On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:22:25AM -0700, tosmaillist.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net wrote: > 2010/8/16 Karsten Wade - kw...@redhat.com: > > http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Practical_OSS_Exploration_textbook_0.8.1_planning > > > > Some more materials landing there later from our EtherPad work > > today. > > EtherPad?
EtherPad is a web-based collaborative writing tool that includes real-time co-writing and playback features. It is FOSS, in a state of flux, and there are a few sites offering instances of EtherPad that we use. We don't count on them as permanent archives, but more as collaborative draft/scratch location. Any real content that is for the project MUST end up back on a real wiki page. (When I did that yesterday, I included a link in the summary field to the EtherPad instance.) This is where a few of us wrote yesterday. I recommend using the playback feature called "Time Slider" to see a bit of how writing on it works. http://openetherpad.org/tos-textbook-roadmap Each author has a different color, as tracked on the right side of the page. All of that content ended up getting pasted almost as-is to this page: http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Practical_OSS_Exploration_textbook_0.8.1_planning > The only mention of EtherPad on teachingopensource.org is in > http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_RIT. > Is there a server attached to the teachingopensource.org domain? If > there is, where should it be mentioned in the wiki? It's currently a tool that folks can use when writing together and wanting a more enhanced *writing* environment than the wiki. We typically try to use wiki syntax when writing for easy copy-paste to a wiki page. When we can get to a point of having our own instance, we could consider it. It would improve our archiving and transparency, as well as make collaborative documentation more fun for all of us. - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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