Calls: Send in your ideas. Deadline October 1st, 2023.

Ethersync

Real-time co-editing of local text files

Ethersync aims to enable real-time collaborative editing of local text files. Similar to Etherpads, it facilitates multiple users to work on content simultaneously, enabling applications such as shared notes or pair programming. However, following a "local-first" approach, all files reside on the users' computers, allowing them to use their familiar editors and workflows, and to retain user control. This design enables a kind of collaboration that is simple and direct, stable and flexible, and preserves privacy. Ethersync will be a supplement to tools that track larger changes on text files, like Git, and can be used in combination with it. The project will leverage CRDTs, and consists of a server component, a cross-platform local synchronization daemon, and editor plugins.

  • The project's own website:

Logo NLnet: abstract logo of four people seen from above Logo NGI Zero: letterlogo shaped like a tag

This project was funded through the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101092990.

Navigate projects

Job openings : NLnet is looking for (junior or senior) technology assessors .


Currently open for proposals:

Want to help but no money to spend? Help us by protecting open source and its users.

.