As much as I love the idea, you will have to find one intrepid person who will commit to maintaining Etherpad running on the server. My understanding is that its Scala application running in an Java Web Container. That's not the easiest thing to keep running on a server. Off course, this is a really interesting knowledge to acquire.
There is also Etherpad Lite which seems to a re-write of EtherPad (but is part of the same "project") using Node.JS and easier: https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Wouter Vandenneucker <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm in favor! > > grts > > > Wouter Vandenneucker > > > 2011/12/15 Jurgen Gaeremyn <[email protected]> >> >> We've had some great experience using Etherpad in the past to generate >> reports and collaborate on ideas... >> >> ... and we've had a very bad experience recently with iEtherpad shutting >> down without notice - causing us to loose some pages that were still in >> progress. >> >> Now... Etherpad is open sourced. >> It can be used in different ways - also secured. >> >> Maybe it's an idea to have our own pad.ubuntu-be.org ? >> Here's the steps to take: >> >> http://pauleira.com/13/installing-etherpad/ >> >> iirc we running on a (virtual) server - so we could have all the rights >> needed to pull this off. >> >> Grtz, >> Jurgen. > > > > -- > ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:[email protected] > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be > -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:[email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
