Yesterday and tonight I threw together a module and feature for embedding etherpads from PiratePad.net into Drupal 6 sites: https://github.com/markwk/piratepad and https://github.com/markwk/atriumed_piratepad
For those that don't already know, EtherPads are a live collaborative writing platform, that was bought up by big/good brother Google. It's pretty sweet for writing together, though the original etherpad 1.0 server is quite a beast. I'd admittedly love to see a full-out integration module for etherpad-lite (vivre node.js!) with Drupal, especially something to pull in limited revisions into Drupal's revision system, but for now this module gives you a way to collaborate with a group writing assignment and embed the work area and revision in a node.
Also I used piratepad but the code could be easily change to use your favorite copycat etherpad platform.
Enjoy...
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Very cool, looking forward to
Very cool, looking forward to checking this out!
Demo:
Here's the demo: http://teachers.language-corner.org/demo/node/75/viewpad
Not sure if I got the logic and permissions correct for a public group / site, but should be fine for inside an intranet site. A nice extension would be to set the editable page only to certain users using: nodeaccess_userreference
How does collaboration work?
How does collaboration work? Do others simply go to the node/edit form and join you? That would be ideal. Otherwise...
With content locking module, you can lock the node to yourself and invite others to join you with a link/notification.
Something simple like this as a .js editor for integration using the Wysiwyg module.
This is really, really cool!
@markwk- we should definitely talk if you want to try and use node.js for this (really awesome) application. More precisely, you should talk to Howard Tyson (tizzo here, VP of Eng @ Zivtech), who is one of the module's maintainers. This is something I'd definitely love to see happen- thanks for putting it together and sharing!!!
Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology
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@bulldozer2003: Right now I'm using it inside of private OG groups and just created a pad / embedded page for each one of several student groups. There are two fields, one for writable page and another for the read-only version. The logic / permissions could be pretty easily twisted to make this more "private" and person specific for the writeable page.
@Alex: I've been working on various node.js stuff recently. The biggest is a synced whiteboard / slideshow. Nodejs is truly pretty sweet stuff... Been battling though with the nodejs API module quite a bit. I suppose like anything creating a general "solution" is hard when applications with nodejs are so specific and needs are not so general.