FOSS Multicast Document Sharing? 125
Jawdy writes "I am currently leading a small game development project with artists and developers scattered all over the country. Getting together is somewhat difficult, but we try to do this every couple of months.
We often share all kinds of documents with each other, and even do so while using IM clients (GTalk and MSN), but this winds up being a tedious process of: send document; read and edit; send back; rinse and repeat.
What I wanted to ask fellow slashdotters is, if anyone knows of any FOSS software that can handle IM (or even voice chat), Whiteboard and document sharing — where we can all see the document, pass around 'editing rights' and edit live. Even several small apps that handle the individual components would help out!"
AbiCollab for Document sharing? (Score:1, Interesting)
http://abicollab.net/ ?
I haven't tried it personally, but if it's any help, yeah. (:
Personally I would abstract this away from the app (Score:5, Interesting)
For really simple interactivity, I would suggest something along the lines of
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vnc-reflector/ [sourceforge.net]
Let one person do the application hosting and get your committee to VNC to that host. Then everybody can do everything, including applications that don't have shared edit features built in.
Eclipse Communication Framework (Score:5, Interesting)
ECF [eclipse.org] is an integrated Jabber (XMPP)-based protocol that allows collaborative work. Introduction here. [infoq.com] "Real-time communication and collaboration features for teams using Eclipse such as peer-to-peer file sharing, remote opening of Eclipse views, screen capture sharing, and real-time shared editing."
Other Jabber products you might find useful are Coccinella with whiteboarding, etc.
Microsoft SharedView (Score:5, Interesting)
Inkscape (Score:4, Interesting)
This is only for whiteboarding (not document sharing), but Inkscape can share a workspace over XMPP (Jabber) protocol. The feature is sometimes called Inkboard.
More info here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/WhiteBoard [inkscape.org] and here: http://inkboard.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
-molo
FOSS? And you use MSN? (Score:2, Interesting)
Use Alfresco [alfresco.com] for document sharing.
Re:iChat (Score:3, Interesting)
So, mark me as a troll (even though I'm stil saying that FOSS will replace this) but for now, this IS the best tool on the market that's FREE for collaboration. It just happens to be tied to the Mac OS.
Assembla.com (Score:2, Interesting)