Douglass recently told me about a great product called Gobby. Gobby uses the obby protocol to allow multiple users to chat online and 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.
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 that allows users across the internet to work together. I have set this up on my machine here and you are welcome to try it out.
host: mail.ywambrussels.be
port: 6522
password: aha! you will need to guess this. (Clue: it is a 4 syllable word on this page)
This could be very helpful. We might have our future YWAMKB meetings on this rather than Skype... Anyway, why not try it out. Let's write a poem together. I will post the result in a week if I remember!
cheers,
Kevin
PS Big thanks to Douglass for the headsup with this
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Using gobby with YWAMKB
Hmm... that password was sure difficult to figure out ;)
I think that the best approach to using this in meetings would be to use it with Skype, instead of as a replacement. I see it as more of a way to take collaborative notes, instead of normal chat. Think of it as more of a real-time wiki.
Interesting...
Interesting find. I found that this has been ported to freeBSD as well. Just go to the ports tree: /usr/ports/editors/gobby and type: make install clean and you are on your way.