[tomdale]

We've been beta testing Canvas on the Ember core team for a few months now and it has been awesome.

Markdown is the lingua franca of open source, but until Canvas, none of the online collaboration tools we used understood it. Not only does Canvas support Markdown, it supports programmer-flavored Markdown, with great support for things like checkboxes and code fencing. It's become an indispensable part of how we build open source software online.

Just a few of the ways we use Canvas:

1. Writing feature proposals/documentation side by side with someone

2. Taking collaborative meeting minutes during the weekly core team Google Hangout

3. 12+ of us sitting around a couch, writing an agenda for our quarterly in-person meetings

Canvas is all about small details that continue to delight as you learn it. I think my favorite "hidden" feature is that you can add `.md` to the end of any document URL and it serves up a static Markdown file, making data export incredibly easy.