Collaborative editing
etherpad
/ google docs / etherpad-lite
http://etherpad.org/
https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad
(open source fork of hackpad (aquired by dropbox) which was in turn based on etherpad (aquired by google). more modern UI/UX focus than etherpad.)
https://firepad.io/#1
(requires hosted db)
http://socrates.io/
(free as in “running on someone else's computer”)
ckeditor →
https://ckeditor.com/collaborative-editing/collaboration-features/
(merge from
collaborative design
at some point…)