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I was able to spin up an instance of Etherpad Lite pretty easily. It's not very rich text, but does have programming language syntax highlighter and other plugins.

I was able to spin up an instance of Etherpad Lite pretty easily. It's not very rich text, but does have programming language syntax highlighter and other plugins.

The major features I am interested in are: real-time collaborative editing, discussion workflow and easy documentation/media integration. As the group's discussions are private, it needs to be self hosted. I prefer open source. Wave ticks the boxes. The closest I have found (and tried installing) is a version of etherpad. I was excited by Rizzoma as it looked like a more general purpose solution but doesn't look very open, unfortunately. I am more of a sysadmin than a developer and will certainly poke my head in to development of projects but I usually need something that has at least the minimal functionality out of the box for my users.

I want a FOSS system I can install on my own server that has all the functionality of Google Docs but lives on my sever.

Which bit? For online editing of documents/spreadsheets, there's "Feng office" (formerly Opengoo). They try to commercialise it, but it's open source, and there's a free "Community edition". No concurrent editing last time I checked, though. For concurrent editing, there's Etherpad, and Google has released/is releasing/say they will release the code for Wave. Granted, none of it's a polished, drop in replacement for Google Docs, but that's life.

Etherpad.com closed, but Etherpad is well and alive.

See also:
http://etherpad.org/etherpadsites.html

Etherpad.com closed, but Etherpad is well and alive.

See also:
http://etherpad.org/etherpadsites.html