<div dir="auto">Hackmd because it looks nice and is just generally awesome for editing text together<div dir="auto">Etherpad because it shows off who typed what easily, so nicest to use during a meeting</div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">LibreOffice because we share an odt file</span><br></div><div dir="auto">Word because I was on my work computer and that's what's installed there</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So no fundamental choices behind all this, just "whatever works". </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think hackmd could be the tool to use for this though. It is both extremely easy to use, allows for some layout with markdown, and it shows edit history. I believe you can create published versions and share a read only link. I have not looked into exportability of the edit data though.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Whether or not the detailed edit data - should- be shared is another matter. I think it could be useful, as it would help for our members to have a closer understanding of how the board works and who stands where. But it can also be misleading: for example someone might make an edit after wider discussion, a compromise that does not reflect their personal point of view at all. Apart from that, I do think there are situations where there is a trade-off between transparency and efficiency. If I have to choose, I'd rather have a board that is working for osm than one that is paralyzed by fear of attack. When it's your work being analyzed, scrutiny feels a lot like constant attacks. I know that's not what's happening, but it can be exhausting. And burned out board members aren't good for the OSMF. Now I know all this can be an easy excuse to just do everything behind closed doors. I hope you don't r read that into this. Personally, I hope that in this new board, that seems to have less trust issues, we can adopt a more open working culture.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Joost</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op di 14 jan. 2020 11:08 schreef Christoph Hormann <<a href="mailto:chris_hormann@gmx.de">chris_hormann@gmx.de</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tuesday 14 January 2020, Allan Mustard wrote:<br>
> I don't know of a software product that can parse versions across<br>
> multiple platforms and software products. If anybody does, please<br>
> let us know. Especially if it is freeware.<br>
<br>
As Roland already mentioned git and other version control systems are<br>
well suitable for this, especially if you work based on text based<br>
formats (Markdown, Mediawiki, LaTex etc.)<br>
<br>
There are editors with direct RCS integration but most people prefer to<br>
do this separately - checking out the current state of the file, making<br>
edits and then committing the changes. If you for some reason need to<br>
do format conversion because your chosen exchange format is not<br>
supported by your editor that would need to be done as well of course.<br>
But unless you are extremely partisan about this ("i only do text<br>
editing in Word") just pick a suitable editor. Always keep in mind<br>
that we are not talking about fancy DTP work here, this is about simple<br>
text documents - headings, paragraphs, lists, occasionally a small<br>
table. Using OpenOffice is already complete overkill for that. I<br>
would do things like that in a plain text editor without WYSIWYG<br>
anyway.<br>
<br>
The most strait away method if you are not familiar with version control<br>
systems is of course just editing the document on the wiki - especially<br>
if it is, like here, a document that will ultimately reside on the wiki<br>
anyway. But i understand this comes with disadvantages (very limited<br>
editing interface, no comfortable offline editing ability). But it has<br>
the advantage that most people in the OSM community are familiar with<br>
it.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Christoph Hormann<br>
<a href="http://www.imagico.de/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.imagico.de/</a><br>
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