Edukalibre : a tool for collaborative creation of educational material

Libre Software, with its characteristics and its particular development model, has promoted the birth of a novel set of team work methodologies. In this direction, the Edukalibre project imports and adapts those methodologies to apply them to the creation and management of educational contents. With this purpose, we have developed a system, which provides users with mechanisms for the collaborative authoring of documents. The system automatically converts to and from a wide variety of document formats, including editable ones like DocBook/XML, OpenOffice.org and LaTeX, and printable formats like PDF, postscript and HTML.