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Mahdi Jaberzadeh Ansari recently finished his work on a Master of Computer Science degree at the University of Bonn. As part of this degree, he has been working on an automated way to convert documents between Fidus Writer to and Microsoft Word. Jaberzadeh Ansari’s work is part of the ongoing Opening Scholarly Communication in Social Sciences… read more |
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After a prolonged testing period, we are proud to announce the launch of Fidus Writer 3.0! With this release, I really wanted to make sure that stability was a top priority, so I did not include new features for the past few weeks. Instead I worked through tons of error reports from early testers. Download the… read more |
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After a week of heavy testing by all of you, we finally getting there. Bug reports have gone down extremely fast after the first few fixes, and a lot of this is about people trying to upload things that shouldn’t be uploaded, etc. . We should probably expect a final version 3.0.0 to be released… read more |
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With this release Fidus Writer is finally at a stage where you can try it, even without your own server! But be aware that we need to cover the cost of running the server (in addition to developing the software), so the server is only set up temporarily for testing. Donate now so that development can… read more |
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This is the Microsoft compatibility release! Fidus Writer is now getting really close to releasing the first release candidate and also to offering a testing server for users who cannot install Fidus Writer themselves. We just found an issue with Safari on iPad today, so we’ll have to either fix this or disable logins from… read more |
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Getting more stable very time, this time we have the following changes: Allows Copying/pasting/merging across document parts Fix: badly written formulas shouldn’t crash the editor Fix: when uploading images in the document of another user, these images should be owned by document owner Fix: make it possible to edit title and categories of images owned… read more |
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Getting closer to the 3.0.0 release, in beta 2, article authors can give comment only access rights to collaborators. This feature was mainly developed by Aleksandr Korovin from the OSCOSS project/University of Bonn. Download it from here. Other changes: Made “read only” mode work Allow enabling of compression mode for production sites Fix: Import Fidus… read more |
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It took a long time, but finally here it is: the beta1 of the 3.0 upcoming 3.0 release. This is the first Fidus Writer beta release since January 2014. The first and last full version release was version 1.0 in August 2013. Download it from here. What is new? The main new features are the… read more |
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The German government-financed “German Research Community” (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) has funded a project to open the scholarly communications by means of using open source tools for communicating started last month and is expected to run for the next 24-30 months. Philipp Mayr of the Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne presents the project in… read more |
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When creating a piece of software there are usually many ways it can be optimized. One aspect we didn’t even think about was the collaboration code. At the heart of our collaboration system is a JavaScript library called diffDOM: It can compare the difference between two websites. We take a snapshot before anything has changed… read more |