collaborative document environment at a primary school

Hello,

I would like to set up a collaborative document environment at a primary school.
Abiword's collaborative feature has the teachers very interested.

So basically, what I would like to achieve is a way for teachers to
create/delete documents on a server that shares them via TCP to the
students.
I was thinking of a cgi on the server that uses the abiComand plugin
to create the documents, and then keep them open indefinitely (on the
server) until the teacher chooses to stop making them available to the
students.

I've just started looking into this and would really appreciate some pointers.

So far I think:
I can set the collaborative params for the (fictitious) user on the
server with ~/.AbiSuite/AbiCollab.Profile
Autosave option can be set and changes to the document might be stored
with a combination of incron and git.
abiComand can keep documents open on the headless server.

But I'm not at all sure that abiComand is the way to go.
To begin with, I can't seem to get the basics to work for me.

# abiword --plugin AbiCommand
 45 plugins loaded
AbiWord command line plugin: Type "quit" to exit
AbiWord:> new
Attempting to create a new document
OK
AbiWord:> save hello.abw
 Filename hello.abw
Doing file export as 1 for hello.abw
OK
AbiWord:> quit

but hello.abw is not created. What am I missing?

Once I get past this hurdle, how do you think I should go about
sharing the document?

Thanks.
Chris.
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Received on Tue Oct 27 10:39:26 2009