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The Etherpad foundation now has it’s own subreddit on reddit.  Join the conversation now.

Michael has written a superb blog post on how to debug Etherpad Lite. If you do need to debug Etherpad, Etherpad lite might be your best option as it has a more simple, easy to understand architecture and now thanks to Michael, better documentation!

We are looking for new talent to get involved with the Etherpad foundation.  We have a pretty exciting few months ahead of us as we plan to launch the next evolution of the Etherpad software. Why get involved with the Etherpad foundation?   Collaborative editing gives everyone an equal say, this makes the world a …

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German police have confiscated the popular Etherpad deployment at Piratenpad.  The Etherpad deployment was being used for structured debates around the protests in Spain so this is a major cause for concern from a libertarian perspective.  We believe the polices main reason for the raid is because PiratenPad was being used by the group “anonymous” …

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Update: We have moved to a new DNS provider and also migrated doc.etherpad.org to a new hosting provider, which means that it will hopefully be more stable in the future. We are currently moving DNS from an old (unreliable) provider to a shiny new one that is super reliable.  doc.etherpad.org and our email is currently …

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Apologies to everyone who tried to grab the 1.1 .deb package via apt. This is now fixed! Here is a picture of Egil schooling me, Mark and Joe as a sweetener.

EtherPad Foundation today released a new version of its free EtherPad web-based  collaborative text editor. This is the second major release since the foundation took over active development of the code base, following the Google Open Source release. The new version includes many new features and improvements: Easy upgrade – Installation scripts checks your java …

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Collaborate on documents in really real-time Etherpad is a hosted web service that allows really real-time document collaboration for groups of users.   Etherpad is open source; you can host your own Etherpad by downloading the source code or try Etherpad for free on one of the Public Sites.   The Etherpad Foundation is a …

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