institutionally managed open source alternatives that don’t suck

As a student who sometimes has to collaborate on documents with others, there aren’t that many options that are easy to use for others who are less tech-savvy than me to use. If it were up to me, we would all use Markdown files with pandoc, but that’s untenable when these same people think I’m a tech wizard for installing Firefox with an adblocker for them. My choices are limited to what others might have on their end which ranges from Google Docs to Microsoft Office and Apple iWork. I don’t think I need to explain why Apple’s office suite is out of the question for collaboration. Google Docs is the standard, however, it’s very limited and its Zotero integration is terrible. Microsoft Office has a relatively good editor, but its collaboration feature is often limited to accounts within the same organization. It’s a near damn impossibility to reliably get everyone who doesn’t use the university license to access Microsoft Office to see the document. As if that wasn’t bad enough, its…