Thanks, Jens, for your comment!  I understand your point of view!  My point
is that Org mode is not ubiquitous and most people (esp. non-programmers)
do not use emacs.   But I do concur that Org mode is  great for
collaboration IF a team can agree to using it.

Thanks for your interesting references!  I am glad to learn about "single
source" and OER.  Your OER material looks fascinating: I don't know that
.org file can be rendered instantaneously as HTML on GitLab.

~ Feiming


On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 2:39 AM Jens Lechtenboerger <
lechten@wi.uni-muenster.de> wrote:

> On 2018-10-25, Feiming Chen wrote:
>
> > I gave a talk on emacs-org in a local workshop (Government Advances
> > in Statistical Programming) in Washington D.C. yesterday.  I'd like to
> > share the slides and org source file with the community (see attached).
>
> Thanks for sharing!
>
> I wonder why you stress the following:
> - Not good for collaborative use (unlike Microsoft Office).
> - Good for private, non-collaborative use.
>
> My view is the opposite: Org mode is excellent for collaboration as
> it is plain text, suitable for diff/merge in Git repositories.
> Thanks to the separation of contents from style,
> cross-organizational collaboration is possible, which I find *very*
> hard with any office tool:  Changing a document master leads to all
> kinds of layout destruction.  Switching to a different corporate
> identity is just hard with what-you-see-is-what-you-get tools.
>
> In contrast, Org mode can be a basis for what is called Single
> Sourcing [1] in the context of technical writing.
>
> You can see my approach towards Open Educational Resources with Org
> mode at [2].
>
> Best wishes
> Jens
>
> [1] http://rockley.com/articles/Single_Sourcing_and_Technology.pdf
> [2] https://gitlab.com/oer/OS
>