Etherpad
From Organic Design wiki
- Etherpad Lite V1.1.1
- is a collaborative editor, sort of like a web-based multiplayer Notepad but with some really amazing features and a really developer-friendly community and framework. Etherpad Lite is completely open-source and comes with no douchery whatsoever attached..
Real-time document collaboration
Etherpad Lite is a real-time collaborative editor, sort of like a web-based multiplayer Notepad that allows groups of users to simultaneously edit a text document, with the ability to display each author's text in their own color. There is also a chat box in the sidebar to allow meta communication.
Stack
(according to http://www.turnkeylinux.org/etherpad)
- EtherPad Lite configurations:
- Installed from latest version in upstream git repository to /opt/etherpad
- Pre-configured to use MySQL (recommended for production).
- Node.js configurations:
- Installed from latest upstream tarball (includes NPM, with npm-completion out-of-the-box).
- The nginx web server is pre-configured to proxy to nodejs daemon, with SSL support out of the box.
- Includes custom nodejs initscript for running node app as daemon.
- SSL support out of the box
- Includes postfix MTA (bound to localhost) for sending of email. Also includes webmin postfix module for convenience.
Plugins of interest
- Integration with Moodle, Elgg, MediaWiki and others!
- Linkify - adds internal links to etherpad lite. This great plugin written by FourPlusOne means you can easily link pads together giving Etherpad Lite more of a wiki style feel. To link pads together use the foo syntax.
- Speech-to-Pad - You can now talk straight into a pad on Etherpad Lite. This functionality is supported in Chrome only at current however more browsers are expected to support this soon.
- jQuery - ideal for injecting pads into your web pages and reading contents.
- More plugins
What’s next?
We have achieved our goal of making etherpad easy to adopt for web developers, we’re really happy with the number of contributors and new plugins being developed by the community. Our next goals are:
- Provide a robust testing framework
- Migrate any legacy Etherpad instances (such as PrimaryPad, PiratePad) to Etherpad Lite
- Language translation support
- Integration with even more CMS’
Etherpad as Wiki
- hybrid wiki-etherpad tool built with DokuWiki (downloadable open-source)
- Cunidu Etherwiki How-to
- Hackpad "is the best wiki ever" (hosted)
Etherpad on Heroku
Forked from https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite and tweaked to run on Heroku's Cedar stack.
