A replacement for google doc for collaboratively write documents
Greetings ladies and gentlemen.
I think the title is self-explanatory but I will elaborate on that just in case:
I want to work with my friends on a specific subject and we would want to have an alternative to google docs. We are now working with the owncloud editor but we are looking for something with more features.
Any options?
Thank you.
If latex is ok there's sharelatex, which is free software under the agpl.
Here's few
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gobby (also in tris 6)
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Etherpad
use a group wiki or setup webdav
Sorry, could you elaborate more on making a wiki group? I don't know anything about that, a link with documentation would help.
Etherpad is very good.
Thank you all.
I meant use a wiki software like mediawiki
make it readable and editable for only the people you want.
mediawiki is hard for small project. I suggesd dokuwiki or wikiwiki both are free software.
Based on Etherpad, Framapad is an option: http://framapad.org
Framasoft, a French association that fights for free software and against Google's monopoly, hosts that service.
I was watching videos about doku and I've to say that it is very impressive and I've found pluguins to export to odf format.
It is a shame it doesn't have an integrated chat to speak with others and I think you cannot see the other person typing as you do so you cannot work at the same time on the same document like etherpad. If I'm wrong, please correct me.
Either way, I'm sad I hadn't discovered free software before because these ways of working are awesome and the base for a good education.
You don't need wiki software to provide a chat feature! Just use IRC or XMPP if you want text chat, or if you want voice or video chat, Mumble or SIP (Ekiga, Jitsi, etc).
Sorry onpon4 but I've written my complain poorly: It's not about the chat feature, it's about working on the same document at the same time. Let me put an example of what I mean:
I remember working on a tutorial for the Trisquel wiki: I was correcting some mistakes I've made but a very kind member of the comunity modified some of the contents at the same time without me noticing it. When I tried to save my changes some message appeared telling me that I cannot save. That is not the collaboration I want for the project I'm currently working on, I want to be able to work on the same document with my friend at the same time as him.
Maybe you could achieve what you want with VNC control? That is, one of you setting up a VNC server allowing others to take control, and then all collaborators connecting to that server.
If you need a VNC client/server package to recommend, I'd suggest TightVNC. On Trisquel, Remmina seems to be a good choice.
This can be useful:
https://pad.riseup.net/
Awesome. That is what I needed.
Thank you.