Gobby: First Contact

Synopsis

Gobby is a free collaborative editor. This means that it provides you with the possibility to edit files simultaneously with other users over a network. The platforms on which you could use Gobby are so far Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and other Unix-like ones. Developed with the GTK+ toolkit it integrates nicely into the GNOME desktop environment if you want it to.

Features

Realtime collaboration through encrypted connections (including PFS)
Each user has its own colour to be identified by others
Local group Undo
Group chat
Shows cursors and selections of remote users
Sidebar with all the others having joined the session
Syntax highlighting, auto indentation, configurable tab width
Multiple documents in one session
Zeroconf support (optional)
Unicode support
Internationalisation
Highly configurable dedicated server
Sophisticated Access Control Lists (ACLs)
Cross-platform: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, other flavours of Unix
Free software, licenced under the terms of the ISC license

Requirements

libinfinity (0.7.x)
Glib (>= 2.18.0)
Glibmm (>= 2.18.0)
libxml++ (>= 2.6.0)
libgsasl (>= 0.2.21)
Gtkmm-3.0 (>= 3.0)
GtkSourceView-3.0 (>= 3.0)

More information

The development of Gobby is coordinated on github at https://github.com/gobby. The primary distribution point is http://releases.0x539.de/.

How to report bugs

Bugs should be files as issues on the github issue tracker at https://github.com/gobby/gobby/issues.

How to get involved

We urgently seek all kind of people who could help us in any way. Firstly we need documentation writers who could help us crafting a help file and some standalone documentation for the web. Secondly, if you are skilled in C/C++ programming, we could need helping hands with programming. A starting point could be github issues. And last, but certainly not least, we need translators who get their hands at Gobby's string templates to get it localised. Thus more could use Gobby in their native language. Just contact us, if in doubt, for more details.

There are also two mailing lists which should provide a mean of contact to other Gobby users and to the developers.

obby-announce: A moderated list used to announce new releases of Gobby and its foundation, libinfinity. To subscribe, please send an email with the topic "subscribe" to obby-announce-subscribe@list.0x539.de. A list archive is available at https://www.mail-archive.com/obby-announce@list.0x539.de.
obby-users: Discussions about Gobby's usage and installation problems. The announcements are also posted there. To subscribe, please send an email with the topic "subscribe" to obby-users-subscribe@list.0x539.de. A list archive is available at https://www.mail-archive.com/obby-users@list.0x539.de.

Licensing

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

Development

To get in contact with the developers, please use the obby-users mailing list mentioned above, or open an issue on github. To get the up-to-date Gobby code to hack on, use git clone https://github.com/gobby/gobby.git. Pull requests against our GitHub repository are appreciated.