[RFE] Online shared/coedited maps?

[KanenasPL]

I use Minder as the idea map tool. The simplicity of putting several top-level ideas on the canvas, building mind maps around each of them and then linking them on the same level is priceless!

Now, is there any simple way to do it online (selfhosted), with a team editing in parallel (via a client) and the audience watching it real time (WWW)?

Combined with already existing features, it would certainly be a killer. I would even be happy to co-fund a bounty for that.

[farooqkz]

I think this can be done if it's for private teams and with some hacks. I'm thinking about integrating minder with a https://github.com/chatmail/ backend. Then as for presenting in WWW, it'll be a bot rendering to web. This might work good if the team members can trust each other.

@phase1geo Do you think it's a good idea to add a plugin API for Minder? So it'll enable such these use cases.

[farooqkz]

hmm maybe another alternative could be https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/broadway.html with https://webxdc.org ?

[phase1geo]

The Broadway proposal (provided by @farooqkz) technically works to display a Minder window within a browser; however, Minder isn't designed to allow multiple people to edit a Mindmap in parallel so that would definitely be an issue using it for that purpose. I don't have any plans to add that feature.

[farooqkz]

The Broadway proposal (provided by @farooqkz) technically works to display a Minder window within a browser; however, Minder isn't designed to allow multiple people to edit a Mindmap in parallel so that would definitely be an issue using it for that purpose. I don't have any plans to add that feature.

Designing such a thing for sure adds tons of complexity. What if people aren't allowed to do that in parallel? That is, the mindmap gets locked whenever someone edits it. Additionally, only a single person could have the editor role. Then each of the users could take the editor role from the other one. It would work for private groups. But not public. And that's already a big deal.

Also, traditionally, people go for an online web app to implement such these. This adds burden of writing the server code, maintaining the software and also maintaining an online instance. However, with WebXDC I mentioned above, we could have a mini app in IMs supporting it without a central server.