Octomode
https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/octomode
Octomode is a collective editing space for PDF making, using Etherpad, Paged.js and Flask.
Inspired by the multi-centered, tentacular cognition capabilities of the octopus, we imagined a space in which the artificial boundaries of writing and design can be crossed; where writing, editing and designing can be done in one environment simultaneously, allowing the format to influence the matter and vice-versa.
Ongoing circulations
Octomode is strongly relying on (Ether)pad and shared habits of collective note taking in such collaborative environments. In the end, octomode is just a combination of a few free software tools, and we like to think of octomode as a boilerplate, that can be re-configured and re-transformed into other possible environments. It is anyway strongly inspired by the beautiful work of others, including:
- Ethertoff by OSP
- Etherbox by Constant
- etherdump by Michael Murtaugh/Constant
- etherpump by Varia
- Pad2Print by Luuse
Octomode is published under CC4r: transformed into many directions
How to use octomode?
If you want to work collectively on making a PDF, you can make a new octomode environment here: https://cc.vvvvvvaria.org/octomode/.
You can write any name of in the input field, this will be the name of the new octomode environment and pads that are used.
More documentation can be found here: https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/octomode
Octomode on the CC server
Octomode is installed on the server at: /var/www/octomode/
and runs as a system user octomode
.
You can restart octomode with: $ sudo service octomode restart
Or see its status with: $ sudo service octomode status
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The code that is used for octomode can be found here: https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/octomode.