Collaborative Markdown

Workgroup: collaborative markdown

We first spoke about Markdown in general to try to have a better idea about it. The purpose of Markdown is:

• provide a good HTML output;
• be easy to read.

Initial list of questions/topics

• Version control: e.g. diff function
• how to facilitate "track changes" with MD — collaboration?
• how does Markdown support collaboration?
• everything with 3 settings: private, group, world
• critic Markup for annotations, comments
• comments (good for supervising/collaborative work)

Main questions discussed

Which needs for Markdown support collaboration?

• version control
• comments
• settings: private, group

Which collaborative environment to use for Markdown?

• Google Docs: good to find papers, take notes on a given document together, good for version control
• Github: solves the problem of software community development
• Gitlab: enables posts on a wall, privacy settings, Wikis… etc

Other suggestions: Markdown template for formatting (CSS).