[Its.an.education.project] My Thoughts on Sugar...

[Tom Hoffman]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Martin Sevior <msevior at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>          I'm one of the primary authors of Write and the
> collaborative feature, (abicollab), that allows students to easily
> share a document, thank you for sharing these thoughts! This is
> exactly the vision we had for abicollab and collaborative work in
> general.
>
> For our part we have every intention of continuing the development of
> AbiWord and Write. The current development strand of AbiWord has a
> powerful annotation feature to enable teachers to correct documents
> and to allow different authors to easily add suggestions for
> replacement text.

I used Abiword in the first Linux lab I set up in my classroom back in
2000 and followed the mailing list closely for about a year, which was
a key part of my education in open source processes.

Glad we're all still pulling in the same direction.  ;-)

--Tom