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FOSS Multicast Document Sharing?

Posted by timothy on from the holy-grail-for-remote-work dept.

Jawdy writes "I am currently leading a small game development project with artists and developers scattered all over the country. Getting together is somewhat difficult, but we try to do this every couple of months. We often share all kinds of documents with each other, and even do so while using IM clients (GTalk and MSN), but this winds up being a tedious process of: send document; read and edit; send back; rinse and repeat. What I wanted to ask fellow slashdotters is, if anyone knows of any FOSS software that can handle IM (or even voice chat), Whiteboard and document sharing — where we can all see the document, pass around 'editing rights' and edit live. Even several small apps that handle the individual components would help out!"

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  1. I used google document... by fasuin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... and liked it. Share your doc or xls file, modify it and everybody will immediately see it. you can also use the integrated chat board

  2. VNC by tg2k · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Any number of VNC server/clients can do this, though passing control is probably not as easy as with something designed for meetings.

    But as others have said, use a version control system for anything offline. I recommend Subversion if you want FOSS, but there are tons of alternatives such as Git, Mercurial, etc.

  3. wiki / trac / subversion by sugarmotor · · Score: 0, Redundant

    trac / subversion / wikimedia?

    Stephan

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  4. Re:VCS by master5o1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    what about lather, rinse, repeat?

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