Collaborative Real Time Editing Puns

Is it possible to use Collabora to collaboratively edit documents in real-time in the LibreOffoce desktop application instead of having to use the web interface? Or is there some other way to achieve real-time collaborative editing?

https://code.librehq.com/qhong/crdt.el/

Finally serious Elisp implementation for a collaborative editing environment.

Alpha status, testers/bug-report/feature-request plz!

I have a little app which displays tables from JSON files allowing you to change the color of the elements. To save the changes I take the edited JSON from the frontend and send it to an API that overwrites the original file and causes the app to recompile for all users.

My question is: Would it be possible to make the app collaboratively editable similar to google docs? If so, how could this functionality be added and what is required?

More specifically, what is the best way to send changes back to the server, and how could I merge these changes into the JSON file when multiple people are editing. Also, how can I prevent the app from recompiling every time that file is edited?

I posted[1] the other day about how I'm working on building machine learning flashcards.

I spent most of Sat working on a proof of concept and will publish a video soon.

I have a pretty good solution but I think I can only get about 80% to where I want to go with machine generation.

For example, I can pull out high quality cards but sometimes the text is too large.

https://i.imgur.com/YhNaPHT.png

Every once and a while I'll make an edit here and there and refine them so what I did was I have a Text field and an Original field.

The Original field should be considered immutable. This way you can go back to it if you want.

What I was thinking of doing was generating one of these decks for EVERY wikipedia page and then setting up a webapp so that the cards 'phone home'.

I would probably have to do this via a plugin. If an update were available for your deck or card the app would alert you and you could fetch the latest version and update your deck.

The reverse is also true. If you edit the card, add an image, attach a video, that would get sent out to benefit everyone using the card.

The card changes could LOCALLY be adopted, then if other people in the network merge them locally, then we could make the change officially added to the deck.

This would be a major upgrade over 'shared' decks in that right now they are one way. This would be essentially wikifying the anki decks so that we could collaborate on improving them together.

We could also have this support ANY deck type if we're able to identify the same cards across authors. The node names and types could be used. So grammar and language learning could be learned.

We might have to have an optout and optin mechanism for cards. Some people might want private cards or might just NEVER want their cards messed with.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/8h7veu/would_the_anki_community_pay_for_professional_and/

I have a bunch of org-mode files and I'd like to work on them in real-time with a collaborator with two side-by-side laptops, editing the same file at the same time with a research assistant who's working with me in the same room, connected to the same wifi network, on her own laptop running Emacs.

Google Docs is not ideal for this, because the files are in org-mode format. Opening them as text files in Google Docs, they look like a bunch of unintelligible asterisks and brackets, especially to my research assistant, who is a non-technical non-Emacs user.

We've tried using Emacs, Dropbox, and global-auto-revert-mode, and it kind of works. There's about a 5-10 second lag. But if we make simultaneous edits, it hits a conflict and creates an error, and then we have to try to step back one step at a time through Undo and Save.

Is there a real-time collaboration thing that works well? I see a ton of them listed on Emacs Wiki but this just seems to be a big dump of all of them, new or old, working or non-working. For example, there's something called Conspire mode, but it was last updated 7 years ago and I couldn't get it working on OSX.

Are there any solutions for me?

hi /r/Rad_Decentralization!

I'm ansuz, an active member of the cjdns community, and an avid user of IPFS. Like many of you, I'm interested in decreasing the role of centralized services on the web.

I moved from Canada to France to work for XWikiSAS on Cryptpad, a suite of Collaborative Real Time Editors (CRTEs) built on top of Chainpad.

We use hash chains and a basic operational transformation algorithm which allows multiple users to resolve disputes among themselves without the mediation of a centralized authority.

This approach means that all logic is implemented on the client (a web browser), which leaves us free to encrypt messages before sending them to a simple relay server. Peers are able to collaborate by means of a pre-shared key, exchanged via the page's URL, in the fragment identifier, which is never sent to the server.

You can try a beta version of Cryptpad here.

While we do still use a server for delivering clientside code and storing encrypted messages in a database, we have experimented with using webRTC instead, and apps themselves distributed via IPFS.

The unfortunate thing about Cryptpad (from a developer's point of view) is that the people who are most likely to use it are also those who are concerned about their privacy. As a result, we don't often hear back from users, which leaves us guessing as to what features they enjoy, and which they feel are lacking.

So, if you care to try it out, what are your thoughts?

I'd like to give my users the ability to co-edit a simple text file (or better, if available.

I stumbled upon the awesome-looking ShareJS.

Is there a way to make this work with Django? It looks like it's meant to work with Node. Is there a Django alternative ?

Hello.

My mates and I decided to use real time collaborative editing tools during our medical school. We choose OneNote 2013 Online as a try and we plan to buy any subscriptions (Sharepoint, OneDrive Enterprise, Office 365, others) needed to accomplish our Goal.

Could you help us, please, to make a decision about which is the best method to enjoy reliable real time editing collaboration using OneNote ?

Thank you.

Hey /r/gamedev!

I'm a Ph.D. student from Italy, and I've just got one of my papers accepted, so I guess it's time for some shameless self-promotion :D

More seriously, I think this is the right place to present this tool that me and my colleagues made, since it's a system that can make game development much easier, especially for teams of people.

The system is called LevelMerge, and it's a tool for real-time collaborative editing of game scenes in Unity3D. If you're interested, you can give a look here, where you'll find some more details (paper and some videos)

For any questions, feel free to hit me up!

Do you know of / what are your favorite RTCDs that are provided as a service by some website (except etherpad / piratepad)?

My collaborators don't like the interface of etherpad / piratepad and keep asking me to use google docs, and I don't like that (with google turning more and more evil). So I would appreciate if anyone know of a good alternative to etherpad.

Thanks! :)

I was thinking that me and my classmate would collaborate during lectures by taking notes together, like you can in Google Docs. The thing is that he only takes note on an iPad, and I'm not sure this would work on iOS (right?). Are there any alternatives out there for iOS devices?