Features of Saros

The core functionality of Saros is to support collaborative editing of text files.

The task of Saros is to synchronize the work at any time. 

Saros is designed to at least work with two participants in a session - as inherent for pair programming - but there is no maximum limit of participants.

All participants with write-access can edit the shared files at the same time.

You may share multiple projects within one session. You may also share only a selection of files of a project. If you create, delete or rename a file/folder in a shared project, it will be created/deleted/renamed at the session's participants as well.

For instant messaging you can use a multi-user or 1-to-1 chat.
In addition, we recommend to make use of your favorite VoIP application or audio conferencing tool.

As a user in a session you can see who of the other participants is where (file/region) and who just changed what.

The Follow-Mode allows you to continuously observe all navigation and editing activities of your team members.

Saros frequently checks if your copy became out of sync with the host's copy. In that case, Saros allows you to easily recover from this inconsistency.

Saros provides a concurrent drawing tool for communicating topics graphically.