Drupal and Etherpad

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Posted by rjbrown99 on December 19, 2009 at 11:55pm

Interesting - Google released the Etherpad source code under an Apache open source license today. For those of you not following it, Etherpad is a 'collaborative' web-based text editor. It allows multiple people to work on the same document at the same time.

Here's the code:
http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/

The "Swedish Pirate Party" have a working demo of the code here:
http://piratepad.net/

I have no idea if it's possible, but it would be very interesting to create an extension to the Wysiwyg module that allows the use of the Etherpad source as the editor. If it was hooked in correctly, it would potentially bring collaborative real-time editing into Drupal.

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Just downloaded and

Posted by kevee (not verified) on December 21, 2009 at 3:28pm
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Just downloaded and compiled... the project needs some work, but I think the best way to use EtherPad would be to have each 'pad' be a node, which can have EtherPad's acl linked to that node's access info (allowing og to hook into this would be great for project-related groups) - the node could embed the pad during editing, and then just display the finalize content through web service reads on the pad during viewing.

Accessibility

Posted by mgifford on November 23, 2011 at 1:44pm
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Have you had a chance to look at Etherpad's accessibility at all? I haven't heard of anyone trying to use it with AT.

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Cool Concept

Posted by Thomas_Zahreddin on January 7, 2010 at 9:03pm
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but maybe it competes with google wave - and google wave gets more attention (in the moment).

Also the reason why Etherpad became open source is the fact, that google bought the company to get these developers to work on google wave.

Conclusion:
Great idea, with the risk that etherpad does not attract enough developers.

I would like to see this too,

Posted by a_c_m on March 28, 2010 at 9:29pm
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I would like to see this too, a interrogations we can control, display and ideally search ethapads from inside a Drupal (or even OpenAtrium) install.

I want something dead simple

Posted by KeVroN on April 6, 2010 at 7:51pm
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don't worry about authorship of sentences, let drupal do all the acl. On node load import the current body for field in a pad and start inviting email addresses. On save replace the body or field with the new pad contents, use revision control already built into drupal. Then build in more functionality like OG membership auto join, etc. And ++ for Atrium

MobWrite looks promising but

Posted by christefano on August 26, 2010 at 10:15pm
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MobWrite looks promising but I don't need a Drupal-centric application and ended up going with Etherpad. It's is in Ubuntu multiverse (and there are instructions in the Ubuntu wiki) but it didn't work for me so I ended up installing Etherpad from source.

Any progress on this, or

Posted by Mtro (not verified) on February 28, 2011 at 2:32pm
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Any progress on this, or anyone thinking of implementing it? It would be a powerful tool for intranets!

Implemented Etherpad lite

Posted by webflo on August 28, 2011 at 12:22pm
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Implemented Etherpad lite (https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite) as a field in Drupal 7. Its a proof of concept. The code is mess need some cleanup. Look into my development sandbox. http://drupal.org/sandbox/webflo/1255474

Cheers
Florian