[sf-lug] sf-lug Digest, Vol 70, Issue 16

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Wladyslaw Zbikowski (embeddedlinuxguy at gmail.com):

> MediaWiki with ItsAllText would technically permit local editing of
> plaintext, although perhaps with some hassle to accommodate
> totally-offline users.

That's still a stand-on-your-head-and-imagine-it's-a-different-problem
solution.  But I thank you for trying.

> I imagine you are looking for something using HTML-form file upload or
> perhaps WebDAV. 

No.  Maybe.  Sort of.  I'm talking about a bunch of technophobes who on
a good day can pointy-clicky through AOL 2.0 (I mean Facebook) and
Twitter, with their Web browsers, attempting to copyedit a bunch of
English-language files in a variety of formats including one nitwit who
pointlessly embeds plain ASCII in .docx, and receiving and commenting on
and 'shooping' and resubmitting image files in a variety of formats,
towards production of a several-page newsletter that is eventually put
together in Adobe InDesign and then sent out in PDF and dead-tree
formats.

These are people who would faint if I said 'ssh' or 'git'.

So, their idea of a solution, to date, has been either Google Docs or
e-mailing sets of file-attachments back and forth.  And I know better
than to try to teach them to use real tools.

> Maybe one of the open groupware/project collaboration suites could
> support this use case with its "file sharing" features e.g.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindquarry

I'm hoping to find something a _lot_ more lightweight and less
overengineered than a groupware suite.  (I mean, tasks and a wiki and
teams, and written as Java servlets?  Just slash my wrists and have done
with it, please.)  But thank you for the suggestion.