Etherpad-lite, now easy to deploy for your events

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 2, 2011

“Etherpad Lite is awesome. Have you ever organized a conference,
large meeting, or foocamp and thought “wow, I could really have
used an etherpad at this event.” But many times organizers don’t
have the resources to get this kind of stuff running. Now, in an
effort to make it trivial for anyone to set up an etherpad, James
has implemented an etherpad lite formula for ensemble.

Here are the steps. First install and configure Ensemble, this
is just putting your AWS keys in an environment file and/or using a
PPA if you’re not on 11.10. Then we bootstrap, snag James’ formula,
and then deploy it in EC2.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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