
Gobby: First Contact
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   Table of Contents
   1. Synopsis
   2. Features
   3. Installation

        3.1. Dependencies

   4. More information

        4.1. How to report bugs
        4.2. How to get involved

   5. Licensing

1. 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. It supports multiple
   documents in one session and a multi-user chat. 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.
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2. Features

     * Realtime collaboration through encrypted connections
     * Each user has its own colour to be identified by others
     * IRC-like chat for communicating with your partners
     * Sidebar with all the others having joined the session
     * Syntax highlighting, auto indentation, configurable tab
       width
     * Multiple documnets in one session
     * Document subscriptions
     * User authentication
     * Zeroconf support (optional)
     * Unicode support
     * Internationalisation
     * Cross-platform: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, other
       flavours of Unix
     * Free software, licenced under the terms of the GNU General
       Public License
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3. Installation

   Please see INSTALL for details.

   If you don't have GtkSourceView2 yet, then you can build Gobby
   against GtkSourceView 1.x, by passing --without-gtksourceview2 to the
   configure script.
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3.1. Dependencies

     * libsigc++ (>= 2.0.2)
     * GNUTLS (>= 1.0.0)
     * net6 (>= 1.3.0)
     * obby (>= 0.4.0)
     * Glib (>= 2.6.0)
     * Gtk+ (>= 2.6.0)
     * GtkSourceView
     * Glibmm (>= 2.6.0)
     * libxml++ (>= 2.6.0)
     * Gtkmm (>= 2.6.0)
     * howl (>= 0.9.8) [optional]
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4. More information

   The development of the obby family is coordinated on its Trac
   project page on http://darcs.0x539.de/trac/obby/. The primary
   distribution point is http://releases.0x539.de/.
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4.1. How to report bugs

   Bugs could be filed as tickets at
   http://darcs.0x539.de/trac/obby/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/newticket or
   submitted directly to us at crew@0x539.de. Please include a
   reachable email address in your bug report as we often need to
   contact the reporters for clarifications. Commonly bugs are
   scheduled for the next major release and will be listed in the
   roadmap.
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4.2. 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++ programming, we could
   need helping hands with programming. You could use our project
   page as a starting point to look for tickets which need
   fixing. 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, net6 and obby.
       Please refer to
       http://list.0x539.de/mailman/listinfo/obby-announce if you
       want to subscribe it.
     * obby-users: Discussions about Gobby's usage and
       installation problems. The announcements are also posted
       there. Please refer to
       http://list.0x539.de/mailman/listinfo/obby-announce if you
       want to subscribe it.
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5. Licensing

   This program is written by the 0x539 dev group and is licenced
   under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or any
   later version. A copy of the license is included in the
   distribution.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
   useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
   warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
   PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

   Copyright (C) 2005-2006 0x539 dev group <crew@0x539.de>
