Wed, 20 Feb 2008
gobby.fedoraproject.org
A dedicated Gobby session is now
running on gobby.fedoraproject.org !
*UPDATE*: To address some initial security concerns, I've locked down
this instance to Fedora contributors only. The password can be found in
~lmacken/gobby on fedorapeople.org (via ssh)
Yes, this raises the bar a little bit, but more of a reason to get a Fedora account ;)
What is Gobby, you ask?
"Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms."
If you're running Fedora, simply install the 'gobby' package, and you're ready to go. Click "Join Session", and connect to "gobby.fedoraproject.org". You'll then be able to collaborate in real-time with others on code, documents, notes, etc.
Since this is wide-open for anyone to use, I've also setup a cron job that frequently commits the session to a git repository. You can view the changes to our gobby session via gitweb. Regardless, you should still save anything that you expect to keep locally.
posted at: 19:54 | link | | 9 comments
Posted by Luis at Wed Feb 20 15:23:26 2008
Wow, that's really sweet.
It would be cool to be able to edit wiki pages that way...
Posted by Luis at Wed Feb 20 15:26:58 2008
To elaborate on that last comment a bit: there are times (like board meetings, or conferences) when collaborative editing of immediately published public wiki pages would be really sweet, and where just normal wiki editing is... suboptimal.
Posted by Mike McGrath at Wed Feb 20 19:45:07 2008
If you ask me wiki anything is suboptimal :) I used gobby today with ricky, luke and Toshio for a while. I found it quite useful.
Posted by lewk at Wed Feb 20 20:15:56 2008
yeah, wiki's tend to SUCK. Especially because most require some insanely unintuitive syntax that no human should ever have to type. I am really hoping if Fedora goes the way of MediaWiki that we can at least hook up some sort of rich text editing plugin.
Personally, I'm more excited about what is going on here: http://www.pagodacms.org
I highly recommend checking out the screencast.
Posted by Luis at Thu Feb 21 10:34:32 2008
Wikis publish to the world; if you're not interested in the rest of the world, then yes, wikis suck, but for the rest of us...
Posted by liquidat at Thu Feb 21 16:14:32 2008
I would like to test it, but I'm not sure which password I should enter: the one from the fedoraproject.org wiki, or the one from the admin session, or a total new one?
The link http://fedorapeople.org/~lmacken/gobby is dead so no password there...
Posted by lewk at Thu Feb 21 18:26:41 2008
liquidat,
You have to ssh into fedorapeople.org and `cat ~lmacken/gobby`. Sorry, I should have been more specific.
