What is Reddit's opinion of Etherpad?

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If you want just a word equivalent, there is libreoffice. If you meant a 'cloud' text editor for collaboration, there is a program called Etherpad. http://etherpad.org

Etherpad is fairly barebones, but it gets the job done for the most part.

Sometime next year, libreoffice will have an online version, see here:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/libreoffice-finally-to-go-online/
https://libreoffice-from-collabora.com/libreoffice-online-questions-answered/

Etherpad has a WebRTC(Video and Audio chat plugin) so you can get video & audio chats along side your really real-time document editing..

Etherpad is also written in HTML5, as is the WebRTC implementation (naturally)..

I brought up a quick example instance for you to check it out: https://v.etherpad.org/redditexample

I'm a maintainer of Etherpad and doc/docx is one of the highest fidelity document formats we can import, it's a horrible format, don't get me wrong, but dropping support for it in your application is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I'm not sure any offline editor wins this war though, the cloud offerings now are just so powerful and geared towards the modern user that likes to collaborate.

Would love to have you involved with the Etherpad project

Also we have a nodeJS version that is really popular right now! :)

Come aboard, I will be happy to give you feedback etc.

I'vs never heard of floorbits before, it looks cool to be honest but maybe just a bit too fancy and overkill for me.

I'd go with github, it's easy and fast but of course you have to pay if you want to keep your repository private. I don't know how your school works I don't see why hosting your code publicly on github would be and offense.

If you want alternatives try this link. Etherpad looks good.

The idea is definitly good, if you actually have to build it there are a few pitfalls tho. Good speech recognation software is either commercial and can not be simply used for your own needs or in the cloud, which would mean everything is transparently sent into the cloud, which i heavily assume is not ok anywhere. The cloud ones are also usually heavily restricted or super expensive.

Open source solutions would include things like CMUSphinx, Pocketsphinx, Julius, etc... They are not really good enough to have them run passively and expect proper sentences.

I still like the general idea tho, and teachers generally like such kind of projects. How about something you could collaborate with your classmates to take notes? My class used piratepad (Eitherpad) to work on the same document at the same time. Essentially ment only 1 had to actually listen and take notes, but everyone could easily jump in, add context or even ask questions that did not belong to the teachers ears ;) (like questions that obviously show you havent listened the last hour).

I used Etherpad as a "whiteboard" for a customer once. Overkill, as all they really needed was a shared transitory text pad to replace a custom developed Flash app, but it fit their needs.

Framasoft, a French Libre-software advocate started a campaign called Dégooglisons Internet working on identifying, listing, adapting and deploying alternatives to major online services.

Their alternative to google docs is etherpad. AFAIK it only deals with the text processing aspect of the suite and not spreadsheet, presentations, etc.

Then any 'service' will not be suitable. You need a self-hosted solution, so you can control who and have full control. Look at something like etherpad. It won't be able to give you a full rich editing environment, but it'll give you the basics.

Others' Google Docs recommendations are right on, but that obviously requires everyone have a Google account, which you say you don't want.

Edit: Wacky_Adolf is right: others actually don't need an account if you use the "Anyone with the link can edit" share setting

To do collaborative writing without accounts, there's an opensource program called Etherpad you can run yourself, or there are various hosted Etherpads online if you search. Mozilla runs one, for example, and here's another.

Technically yes, it is the pause before your download begins. It's barely noticable unless you are creating http requests that require fast responses.. For example you wouldn't want high latency on a really-real-time colalborative editor.

So the reason to require a log in is because you want to keep the data secret. If you don't need to keep the data safe, you can just use a slugg'd URL like etherpad does and allow anonymous access.

http://etherpad.org/

I think you simply misunderstood my statement.

Have you considered a self hosted cloud? There are a couple of decent projects out there that offer many of the features, and it's all controlled and hosted by you.

• ownCloud
• Etherpad

>Riccardo Benzoni fuma scrutando l'orizzonte. Che sigarette fuma? Benson & Hedges

LAAAME

Btw, che idea genuinamente simpatica.

Richiesta: Non sarebbe opportuno, credo che non esista in Google Docs, purtroppo, un sistema che colori i pezzi di testo a seconda dell'utente/sessione di modifica? Sarebbe interessante principalmente per vedere come muta il testo e forse anche per mitigare possibili danni. Na roba tipo https://beta.etherpad.org/ (http://etherpad.org/img/screenshot.png) ~~ma non ricordo il nome e no, non era etherpad.~~

The UK/US just started adopting Etherpad (already open source) that does the same thing.

I tried to get to the source code to see if the EU are also using Etherpad (it doesn't sound like they are from the article) but it doesn't work.. Etherpad is available at http://etherpad.org with source code at https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/

"LEOS - Open Source software for editing legislation More Sharing Services Access Denied You are not authorized to access this page. "

Ah.. "The code will be available shortly." Just like Hackpad... Remember that? https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad

Heh...

How open source is this?

> Online Document Editors aren't included into the Common Server solution v.8.1 and will be available soon as a separate solution. If you're interested in it, leave a request at .

http://sourceforge.net/projects/teamlab/files/

Alternative plug... http://etherpad.org

> LaTeX c'est malade.

Pour ajouter à ça avec plus de substance cette fois... une bonne partie des livres des dangereux radicaux de Lux Éditeur sont mis-en-page avec LaTeX :)

J'ai un livre ici, une traduction d'un témoignage en russe faite par un collectif français...

> Traduit collaborativement à l'aide d'Etherpad, > > et mis en page avec LaTeX.

You might want to throw in some open source filtering.

Most of the companies I'm involved with value open source as a major factor when it comes to investment in software.

Can I recommend Etherpad too? http://etherpad.org :) It's probably the #1 productivity tool for collaborative working.

I can write longer without having my hands hurt on a keyboard than with pen and paper so i strongly prefered my small and light netbook for student purposes. Also if you have internet and more people have compatible devices look into EtherPad nothing made studying easier than taking notes realtime together.

Basically we have a desktop app that uses http://etherpad.org/ the closest thing I've found to accomplish this is a plugin for uploading files here though it doesn't support drag and drop. If altering the plugin is my best bet then I'll head that direction.

Collaborative WYSIWYG editor Etherpad would like to remind you it's open source, real-time collaboration, has upload files, image, language, markdown support, support for import/export and other bizarre document fidelity support (table of contents/headers/footers/good print support) and a whole community of developers making awesome stuff for it.

http://etherpad.org

This is cool, i hope it finds use cases it's looking to solve.

You can do really real time collaborative rich text web standards based editing in etherpad. Http://etherpad.org

All web standards based.

There is already http://liquidfeedback.org developed for the Pirate Party in Germany. They use http://etherpad.org/ and http://www.mediawiki.org to develop their texts. I doubt git is the best tool because it is more difficult to use for non-technical people.

Not as much as LMMS.. Linux MultiMedia Studio.. Especially when their target audience includes Windows users...

Also Etherpad Lite..

OP, see Etherpad. It's completely open (source/platform/standard/format), you can host the server on your own machine or on a purchased VPC and/or you can use a hosted Etherpad service.

I prefer the open model to the paranoid model. Most of our business plans are completely open and so is our idea gathering process.

We use Etherpad as we can work collaboratively with large groups of people.

Power in numbers from day 1 is like setting solid foundations imho.

Etherpad is a great alternative to Wave that you can install yourself or use one of the many public sites. It doesn't really do that whole conversation tree thing that Wave and rich content is a little limited but it's great for impromptu brainstorm sessions.

I also have used Autodesk SketchBook quite a bit. It's really awesome for collaborative art. Even for programmers it's great when you're on Skype and need a shared whiteboard.

Just be aware that document editing is happening online so storage is becoming less of a priority, there is still a place in the market for this type of service but less demand today than yesterday.

An example of this type of scenario would be Etherpad. Etherpad allows users to import documents, edit them in really-real time, see the changes as they have evolved etc. No download required, no sign up.. Your service will need to offer that same or better experience to compete. Most people are happy with basic document editing so this might be seen as a higher value proposition over what you are proposing.

VPN to %SERVER%, auth against AD

Open là browser with SSL to %SERVER%, auth against AD

Use a shared logon script to webnote-pad style resource.

Browse lá list.

100% secure, never ever had sec-issues.

You can switchparts and use OpenVPN if you wish and OpenID or such =)

Basically its all the same also, huge fan of http://etherpad.org/ , software helps keepin these on track/topics/credentials on systems.

I don't really understand what that software does. Try Etherpad if it's plaintext you want to work on. Otherwise you might get what you want with VNC (clients and servers form all platforms available).