http://abicollab.net beta
As Marc recently posted, our http://abicollab.net beta is now accepting people interested in in testing the abiword/web service we've created. This service allows users to easily setup and maintain a collection of collaborative created documents. Users can simulatanously edit these documents via single click on the website or by connecting directly through their local abiword instance. Perhaps the most practicle outcome of the service is that if you place a document on the webservice you can always be certain of seeing the most recent version of the document because connecting with abiword starts up a collaborative session. So there is no need to wait for your friends and colleagues to commit their changes to a document before you can see what they're doing. You see their changes in real time and can make your own changes as well.

We're really excited about this and we believe we're created a unique service that provides users with a significantly improved user experience over Google docs and MicroSoft sharepoint. Which are our most obvious competitors.

One additional feature Marc has just added is full, end-to-end encryption between abiword connections. With this the chances of someone being able to either snoop or inject false packets into your session is virtually zero.

To get the full experinece you'll need the latest stable version of abiword from svn. Here are Marc's instructions for how to build it.

Compile AbiWord 2.6.x, together with the AbiCollab plugin (make sure you have at least the libsoup, gnutls and asio developer packages installed;)

svn co http://svn.abisource.com/abiword/branches/ABI-2-6-0-STABLE/ abiword-2.6
svn co http://svn.abisource.com/abiword-plugins/branches/ABI-2-6-0-STABLE/ abiword-plugins-2.6
cd abiword-2.6 && ./autogen.sh --prefix=<your_prefix> && make && make install
cd ../abiword-plugins-2.6 && ./autogen.sh --prefix=<your_prefix> \
--with-abiword=../abiword-2.6 --disable-all --enable-abicollab \
--with-abicollab-service-backend && \

make && make install

Then you need to register at http://abicollab.net and for that you'll need a key.

Our first batch of keys went very quickly. Here is another set for people who missed out yesterday.

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