Open Design Engine

Here are a couple of projects/sites that I think may lend themselves nicely to inclusion as features in later versions of ODE. I am placing them here instead of the issue tracker because I want to us to discuss them a little before we document them to see what we would want to do with them.

• Discourse - a very interesting new open source forum system which runs on Ruby on Rails. It is much more focused on discussions than on threads, and has all sorts of modern UI and behaviors. It might make an interesting alternative to traditional forums in projects
• writeLaTeX - This looks a lot like Google Docs for LaTeX, and while not open source itself, it is built on several open source projects. Interesting features from this project which could be helpful in ODE include live preview (wouldn't that be nice for the wiki) and it looks like (need to text this) other users' edits are shown in real (or almost real) time (again, how great would that be for the wiki). Plus, it would be great to be able to support a rich document type on ODE for collaborative work on manuals, presentations, papers, etc.