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Submission + - Open source, collaborative richtext webbased editor almost available (indiegogo.com)

Submitted by johanneswilm on Thursday August 27, 2015 @09:32AM

johanneswilm writes: Open source webbased editors such as CKEditor and TinyMCE have been available for more than a decade, and some closed source collaborative editors such as Google Docs has been available since 2007. Creating open source collaborative richtext web-based editors has proven difficult due to lack of standardization of the lower level browser features. Now Marijn Haverbeke, the developer behind the popular CodeMirror has started such an editor, called Prosemirror, financed through a crowd funding campaign. Meanwhile the W3C has installed a task force to rapidly standardize and fix the features needed in browsers to easily create richtext and semantic editors.

Submission + - Fidus Writer: Open source collaborative editor for non-geek academics 2

Submitted by johanneswilm on Saturday July 27, 2013 @08:21AM

johanneswilm writes: While writing my PhD in anthropology I found out it's almost impossible to get non-geeks to help me with editing my thesis because it was written in Latex. Lyx is almost there, but as it's not web based, it's difficult to use for online collaboration. Writelatex.com is online, but typing LaTeX code is a no-go for non-geeks. Google Docs is web based and near-WYSIWYG, but lacks support for professional print formats such as Latex.
The PhD took longer than expected, so before finishing me and tree others were able to code an entirely new editor: Fidus Writer: web based, open source (AGPL), almost-WYSIWYG and with tools for academics such as citation management and formula support and output formats PDF, Epub, Latex, HTML.

Submission + - Is open source software ready for e-publishing? (antropologi.info)

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on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @02:59PM

johanneswilm writes: "Over more than 3 years I have been writing on my anthropology PhD thesis on the politics of Nicaragua. Being the most professional system for PDF-generation, I went with LaTeX. To make the text accessible for the editors, I used the LyX editor. Now that the publication date comes near, I found I had to spend considerable time creating a script to convert the manuscript to formats such as Epub as none of the available tools were quite ready to do it automatically. Is LaTeX only good for writers in the natural sciences? Is the open source community boycotting ebook formats, as Richard Stallman has proposed? Are there better tools to do the same?"

Submission + - Nicaragua creates innovative information system (linuxjournal.com)

Submitted by johanneswilm on Thursday November 12, 2009 @09:06PM

johanneswilm writes: Nicaragua is the second poorest country of the Americas. It is now also the Latin American country with the most capable web-based information system, thanks to open source software. ALBAstryde itself is open source and it is based on Django and jQuery. It allows the user to play with the data, and its reach is further extended by a net of radio stations who are broadcasting the numbers to remote peasants, who thereby for the first time ever get up to date data on prices and general production levels in the country.
The implementation for the ministry of agriculture of Nicaragua already contains live data.

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