Bridging the Writing Gap

A lot of technical issues would have to be worked out, of course: would successive saves from the WYSIWYG tool be rebased automatically, how would merge conflicts be presented in the WYSIWYG interface, and so on. But I really like the idea that we could show bootcamp participants how to write the way they're used to, then how to do better when and as they are ready. If you're interested in working on this, please mail us; we'd be happy to help assemble a coalition of the willing.

[1] I still don't understand why diff-and-merge tools for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (and their Open/LibreOffice equivalents) don't ship with Git, Mercurial, and Subversion; I can't think of any technical advance more likely to increase uptake of version control by non-programmers.