Using Etherpad as shared note

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Author Name: Leonardo Daronco (Leonardo Daronco) Original Redmine Issue: 1750, http://dev.mconf.org/redmine/issues/1750 Original Date: 2015-09-23 Original Assignee: Pedro Beschorner Marin

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[Originally reported by Pedro Beschorner Marin]

Etherpad is an open source collaborative real-time document editor (http://etherpad.org/). Investigate the possibilities of integrating it in Mconf-Live as the shared note's module core.

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Original Redmine Comment Author Name: Leonardo Daronco (Leonardo Daronco) Original Date: 2015-09-23T18:27:18Z

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Issue #1760 has been updated by Pedro Beschorner Marin.

Status changed from In Progress to Feedback % Done changed from 10 to 90

I believe IFrames are the quick solution for this.

To make something like this work I installed an Etherpad server (https://github.com/pedrobmarin/etherpad-lite#gnulinux-and-other-unix-like-systems) and added a flex-iframe lib (https://github.com/flex-users/flex-iframe) on the bigbluebutton-client. Cleaned up the old shared notes module and made this iframe setup. There isn't any kind of authentication yet so the notes are unprotected from users outside the meeting.

This is my branch: https://github.com/pedrobmarin/bigbluebutton/tree/090-etherpad-multinotes

Although IFrames make it easy going they are limited containers: https://code.google.com/p/flex-iframe/wiki/FAQ

I think we need to discuss this and evaluate this results before continuing this task.