Hi Jonathan,
in my federal state branch of the German Pirate Party, we all day long successfully combine Etherpad: http://etherpad.org/ for shared writing, and mumble: http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ for voice connections. Both are FLOSS, but I cannot tell whether or not they would suffice for what you are doing during your research.
Purodha
On 24.09.2015 18:30, Jonathan Morgan wrote:
Hi Purodha,
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Purodha Blissenbach wrote:
On 23.09.2015 16:57, Samantha Becker wrote:
a) the editor must have previously translated at least one Wikipedia article to or from English and one of the following languages: Catalan, Farsi, French, Italian, Spanish, or Swahili.
Discriminating against the other languages?
The tool being tested is a pre-release alpha stage and is only enabled for these languages so far. Once it is refined, tested, and built, it will be available in all languages for which there is a Wikipedia.
b) the editor must be available to speak with a WMF researcher over Google Hangout;
Please be aware that using Google and thus letting them and the secret services eavesdrop on our conversations may be not acceptable for some users.
Purodha
Yes, I fully agree that there are various issues with Google Hangouts, and I totally understand that this will be problematic for some users. My personal issue with the tool is that it is not open source, rather than the possible privacy/infosec issues you raise. But this kind of research requires voice connection and shared schrees, and this is the tool that is available to me for this function.
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