How would peer-to-peer collaboration work in #LibreOffice? Our Design community has been exploring ideas and working on mockups: https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/07/17/peer-to-peer-collaboration-with-libreoffice/ #foss #opensource #p2p
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Libreoffice team this is such a lovely surprise dark horse p2p move
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Hey @Jami , any insights from your #p2p journey and extensive experience ?
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This idea is brilliant! I think I see a hint to matrix as a potential chat platform and would indeed use that myself, but it would be hard to convince people to use any new chat platform just for a single use-case. If you view suggestions here, I would recommend additionally implementing something like [Syncthing](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing) or even a Tor hidden service. Both of these can be automated and don't require a hosted server. [Briar](https://code.briarproject.org/briar) has a good example of what I mean for tor and I think syncthing is self explanatory. There is also the wonderful project [Reticulum](https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum), but you(LibreOffice) would probably need to host your own tcp relay for any sort of stability.
@libreoffice really looking forward to this
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That would be great. Would be nice if it could work peer-to-peer/serverless and could resolve locally for situations where everybody is in the same LAN. Also, here is some inspiration from the past https://www.linutop.com/news/2009/02/09/collaborative-editing-with-abiword/
@libreoffice wow wow wow chill, this would change everything
@libreoffice I was literally having a conversation about this just the other day. Hope the experimentation goes well.
Not something I use personally, but I can see how it could be make or break for a lot of people. Hope you get it worked out. ^