Collaborative editing

About the project

• Contact: @rhatto
• Chat: #tor-dev on irc.oftc.net
• Video room: to be defined.

Participants

• @meskio
• @rhatto (I'm looking for someone to be the new maintainer/coordinator/asignee for this proposal, as I may participate only marginally on it)
• @micah
• @shelikhoo (Partially)

Summary

This is about enhancing ways we deal with Etherpads.

Project A - Nextcloud collaborative editor

• Try the Nextcloud collaborative editor as an attempt at reducing the number of external tools we have to deal with.

Project B - Etherpad

• Etherpad archival utility/GitLab bot (as ticket comments, merge requests etc). Use case: add pad links into the ticket description, and the bot will act regularly, submitting changes somewhere. Maybe this already exists? We may also try to expand this use case for other document sources/platforms.
• Investigate the possibility to run our own etherpad, and not use the pad cleanup that Riseup does, and then the pads can be integrated with Nextcloud.

Project C - CryptPad

• Etherpad may be winding down development, and we should re-consider CryptPad, which has a number of document management utilities bundled with it.

Project D - HedgeDoc

• Try HedgeDoc, "an open-source, web-based, self-hosted, collaborative markdown editor".

Skills

What are the skills needed for the project:

• Not sure yet! Maybe no specific skills needed.
• Etherpad autosaving may depend on the knowledge needed to create GitLab bots and other scripts.

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