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I had the same thought.

Let me know if you want to collaborate. <grinich@mit.edu>

I too had a similar thought :) I'm booked until mid January, but would be interested in collaborating then.

I hacked up something for LaTeX collaboration: http://etherpad.com/latexmk

That's pretty cool! But only useful for the few of my friends that would know how to run a perl script (and have LaTeX installed) unfortunately LaTeX is a rarity at Swedish schools and I need to make it super simple and install-free to make some of my classmates use it.

Thanks! You could use that script yourself to keep a copy of the pdf live on the web. Then your collaborators could edit the LaTeX on etherpad and keep re-fetching example.com/foo.pdf for the pdf of what they're editing. If they're not hardcore LaTeX people then maybe that will suffice for them.

I would be happy to test it - pls let me know.