- Co-ment
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co-ment Original author(s) Sopinspace Written in Python/Django Available in English, French Type Online word processor License GNU Affero GPL Website co-ment.com co-ment is an online word processor allowing collaborative work on text writing. It's the descendant of the tool[1] created to handle the GNU GPL version 3[2] online revision. It is freely available under Affero GPL.
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Description
Co-ment allows many to collaboratively elaborate online texts. It offers a wiki-style editing environment, supporting many syntaxes[3], and allows some finely controlled layouts, including table or images.
Its main interest is its comment feature, allowing users to attach their remarks to sharp extracts of text, leading to a text building procedure based on strong and equipped debates.
Advanced comment navigation features are also provided to help discover new annotations or go through the history of a debate. It's also possible to set up email alerts on text edits or new comments.
Co-ment is fitted with many import/export formats support : TXT, DOC, ODT, HTML. Co-ment has a special focus on layout respect of exported file types.
Sources
It is available as a free web service, extended by pro accounts following the WordPress model. Source code is available on the co-ment.org website, and it's also bundled as a Drupal module.
Usages
Some of the greatest use cases of co-ment are for education, in particular first language and literature teaching in secondary education.
As stated in the introduction, co-ment is inspired by the tool created to handle the online revision of the GPL v3, and have been since used for other licenses such as : Mozilla_Public_License, Creative_Commons…[2]
Co-ment is also used for legal works[4], for administrative works [5] or for advocacy works [6]
References
- ^ Stet_(software)
- ^ a b http://www.co-ment.com/2010/02/25/co-ment%C2%AE-for-licenses-and-contracts/
- ^ Markdown, ReStructuredText or HTML
- ^ Such as the french law project about net neutrality, lead by Christian Paul
- ^ Such as the energy saving debates lead by french administrative entity ADEME
- ^ Such as Bits of Freedom, or La_Quadrature_du_Net…
Categories:- Online word processors
- Free software
- Web services
- Collaborative software
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