AbiWord 2.8 features expanded collaboration

What would be really interesting (although it would go on a completely different release cycle, most likely) would be for abicollab.net to implement Google Wave Federation, so that people could collaborate on a document with one of them using AbiWord and connecting to abicollab.net and the other using Google Docs. Of course, even more interesting after that would be to release the source for running the abicollab.net site (or for someone to develop an open source version), so that companies and people with their own servers could keep their documents private from external companies.

Releasing the server code is less interesting without federation, since it's hard to collaborate with someone else when each of you uses only your own server and the servers don't talk to each other, but once the servers can talk, it makes sense to arrange these servers like email servers; people could trust the same entities with their documents that they trust with their email, and then they can share documents and collaborate on documents with whoever they want, again only trusting their collaborators and the entities that run their collaborators' servers.