[P2P-F] Fwd: ShareLaTeX is now open source!

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Henry Oswald <team at sharelatex.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:30 AM
Subject: ShareLaTeX is now open source!
To: michelsub2004 <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


 Hi michelsub2004 ,

We're pleased to announce that ShareLaTeX is now open source, and you can
grab the code on Github <https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex>!
ShareLaTeX is a web-based real-time collaborative LaTeX editor, and you can
now run your own local version where you can host, edit, share and compile
your LaTeX documents. We're still 100% focused on running the hosted
version at http://www.sharelatex.com, but we want to be more flexible in
how you can use ShareLaTeX, and give something back to our wonderful
community.

[image: ShareLaTeX editor]

We're starting by open-sourcing the core parts of ShareLaTeX, including the
editor, the project and document storage systems, and the backend LaTeX
compiler that we use. This is only the beginning of our open-source journey
though, and we will be open sourcing much more soon. (We still need to
review our back-end code and write documentation for the other parts.)
Motivation

Our main motivation for ShareLaTeX has always been to improve the
efficiency of scientists and students around the world. Open sourcing our
code base is a natural way to make sure that we can help as many people as
possible.

As a small team, we're constantly receiving feature requests that we'd love
to implement but don't have the time. We've also had a lot of offers from
willing volunteers who we've had to turn away because we didn't have a
framework for people to contribute. We hope that by open-sourcing
ShareLaTeX we can empower our brilliant community to help improve
ShareLaTeX in the ways that you want, without having to wait for the two of
us to work down our todo list.

A lot of people have asked to host ShareLaTeX internally due to company
guidelines or data privacy concerns. We don't have the resources to support
licensed installs at the moment, but we also hate having to say no. With an
open-source version of ShareLaTeX, now anyone who wants to run it locally
can.

We are still continuing to work on ShareLaTeX full time, and we expect that
the time we have to work on new features will only increase in the coming
year. (We are starting to look for a front end developer/designer to join
our distributed team. If that sounds interesting then please get in touch
at team at sharelatex.com.)
Contributing

If you run into any problems with downloading and setting up ShareLaTeX,
please let us know on our issue
page<https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex/issues>
.

ShareLaTeX is written in CoffeeScript (and occasionally JavaScript), and
our back-end runs on Node.js. Regardless of your experience, we would love
to help you get to know the ShareLaTeX code base, and help you contribute
your first patch. The code can be found on
Github<https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex>,
and an overview of all open issues can be found
here<https://github.com/orgs/sharelatex/dashboard/issues>.
We've got some issues marked as 'good for beginners', but don't let that
constrain you! We also have an open chat
room<https://www.hipchat.com/g1nJMcj7b>for discussing development.
Please drop in if you have any questions, or
just say hi.

There are also ways to help that aren't all about coding. The whole site
could do with the caring touch of a *designer*, or if you speak a language
other than English, then you could help to *translate* ShareLaTeX. There is
LaTeX *documentation <http://www.sharelatex.com/learn>* that needs
improving, and we're always keen for *bug reports
<http://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex>* from anyone using the site.

If you would like to discuss this news please head over to our announcement
blog post<https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/2014/02/21/sharelatex-is-now-open-source.html>
.

Regards,
Henry <https://twitter.com/henryoswald> and
James<https://twitter.com/thejpallen>
ShareLaTeX Co-founders

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