[TOS] textbook 0.8.1

[Karsten Wade]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:22:25AM -0700,
tosmaillist.neophyte_rep at ordinaryamerican.net wrote:
> 2010/8/16 Karsten Wade - kwade at 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
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