Re: [Owncloud] FLOSS alternative to Dropbox – GNOME + KDE collaboration?
Jan-Christoph Borchardt <[email protected]>
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Please note that I am neither a developer nor applying for GSoC. I am just the messenger and was not sure if either project (Design Hub & ownCloud) knew about the other. ;-) Allan Caeg put it best: > I don't know what's been planned for the Design Hub already, but I think, > it's possible for it to have a FOSS dropbox alternative package as a > dependency. That way, we'll be hitting two birds with one stone :) On 22 March 2010 12:48, Hasanat Kazmi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I plan to work on ownCloud (mentor: Frank) to bring synchronization. > Initially my plan was to replicate (if not add more features) dropbox in > owncloud. I see here we can collaborate. > ownCloud is something more than dropbox, but sync is something which is core > to the system. > I think we can (indirectly?) use your software (or libs it uses) to create > syncing for our system. > What do you think about it? > Are you applying in Gnome or KDE? > Hasanat Kazmi > +923464362473 > > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> There seems to be a real need for a FLOSS alternative to Dropbox in >> both GNOME and KDE. Google Summer of Code is approaching and both DEs >> have a collaboration tool on their list. >> >> GNOME has ideas for the front-end: >> http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010/Ideas#Other_Ideas >> (Collaboration server/client) >> KDE focuses more on the back-end: >> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas#ownCloud >> >> To have a DE-independent alternative to Dropbox (and Ubuntu One for >> that matter …), wouldn’t it be great to collaborate on that project? I >> didn’t know if either idea knew about the other, so here’s the update. >> :) >> _______________________________________________ >> Owncloud mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability