• Excerpts

GitHub system for writers

People discussing a collaborative, version control system for writing projects and non-programmers. Some fascinating ideas and user experiences exist in these posts. Good ideas. It's an interesting area of software development that includes the Web and native apps for desktop and mobile.

I'm most interested in Web/native apps for writing, collaborating, and managing content. So that would includes software programs such as blogs, message boards, wikis, editors, content management systems, and knowledge management systems.

• Aug 29, 2013 - Github For Writers
• Hacker News discussion - 137 comments

2012 Wordpress activity

• http://ben.balter.com/2012/02/28/github-for-journalism-what-wordpress-post-forking-could-do-to-editorial-workflows/
• http://postforking.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/introducing-post-forking-for-wordpress/

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/github/all/1
https://github.com/WiredEnterprise/Lord-of-the-Files
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/github-revisited/

Excerpts

(From the Hacker News thread and the post that originated the discussion.)

Some barriers make it intimidating for non-developers to jump in, even if the platform can technically handle it:

• Tech jargon: non-developers don't understand branches, forks, commits, rebasing, cloning, etc.. and they don't care to learn.
• Command-line first: while GitHub is slowly moving Git functionality into the browser, the primary focus is still on the command-line. The in-browser features are meant to supplement the command-line, not replace it altogether.
• Diffs: GitHub diffs (changes in a file) are designed for code: line-by-line diffs instead of words, sentences, and paragraphs.

GitHub is built by developers for developers.

• The Limitations of GitHub for Writers
• GitHub for Teachers
• We Need a Github of Science

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