I am looking into doing some collaborative writing with a friend or two. I was hoping to use some kind of program/workflow that has been used with great success in business.

Groupware tools allow serveral users to work on documents together. Some of these programs include Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word and Lotus Notes.

This kind of workflow is also used in programming, using server applications like CVS and Perforce.

Ultimately, I would like this workflow to use the web as a centralized place to work from. There is a project on SourceForge.com in it's early stages called CoeLab, which stands for "Collaborative Elaboration". But they have yet to release any files.

Has anybody worked with anything like this. I don't want to reinvent the wheel. If this works, maybe it could be the beginning of a collaborative writing community like the free software movement.

-Jaxon