Erik Moeller, 26/10/2010 23:01:
We've recommended Thunderbird in the past (with some folks sticking with GMail, yours truly included), but unfortunately it doesn't meet all our needs.
Why?
Google Docs is a great collaborative drafting tool (as is Etherpad, which is open), but I don't want us to become dependent on it -- for any document that needs to be worked on over sustained periods of time, it ends up being moved out of GD. I'd love to see at least a basic MediaWiki/Etherpad integration, it would give MW a huge productivity boost for real-time note-taking and collaboration.
There are lots of things on our Etherpad which should be eventually copied on some wiki to be organized and easily findable. (Should we suppose that Etherpad texts are CC-By-SA?) Actually, I've watched some etherpad history "replays" and I've seen simple patterns of a number of edits by an user and then a number of edits by another user (even on another section): nothing you can't easily do on MediaWiki.
Nemo