Collaboration Tools

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Real time collaborative document editing with Gobby

Douglass recently told me about a great product called Gobby. Gobby uses the obby protocol to allow multiple users to chat online and collaborate to edit documents AT THE SAME TIME! Yes - people can type at the same time in the same document. It works for text documents and has syntax highlighting for programming. It works very much like an instant messaging tool on steroids!

Anyway. You can get Gobby from here: http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/wiki/Download or do as I did and apt-get install gobby as it is already there for Unbuntu! Windows and Mac clients too.

When two or more Gobby clients are on the same network they will be able to find each other and you can work together (Apple's Zeroconf stuff). It is really rather simple. Took Steve and I 5 mins to sort out just now.

There is a server called sobby too (apt-get install sobby and then just sobby to run) that enables users across the internet to work together. I have set this up on my machine here and you are welcome to try it out. Just join a session with your Gobby client to:

host: mail.ywambrussels.be
port: 6522
password: aha! you will need to guess this. (Clue: it is a 4 syllable word on this page)