On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Steve Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Apologies I haven't been able to attend the meetings since we changed the > timeslot, I am sure you have all gotten on fine without me and my limited > input though ;). I am currently evaluating ownCloud ( > http://owncloud.org/index.php/Main_Page ) and am wondering if it is worth > putting on the roadmap in Fedora somewhere down the track. > > I'm a bit dubious about how much of a 'cloud' tool this really is but that > said I can see the benefits, particularly once they get integration with > consuming applications which are already packaged going. There is also > nothing to stop end users setting it up in such a way that it is a true cloud > tool backed by redundant storage either - just that the current examples I > can find all appear to be throwing it up on a single VPS. > > If you want to try it out you can get a free, basic (albeit old stable > release) of it setup on packagecloud (Warning, referrer link: > https://www.packagecloud.com/?au=owncloud), this is what I have done for now. > I'm currently evaluating the development version in a VM at home to see what > has/hasn't changed, unfortunately it really seems like a bit of a chicken and > egg thing though as I don't think it will improve much in utility until they > get the apps support sorted but I can see they are working at that. Note that > it has a webdav interface as well as the HTML UI so you can access it using > nautilus, firefox, etc. > > Thought I'd throw it in the ring and see what people think anyway. The > developers appear to hang out in #owncloud on FreeNode if people want to ask > them questions. > > Cheers, > > Steve
Hi Steve, Yeah I think owncloud is a SaaS-cloud app - or at least could be (in the same vein as fpaste and status.net are SaaS-capable apps). I am actually surprised that one of our KDE-sig members who hangs out in the Cloud-sig *cough*rrix hasn't packaged owncloud already, since owncloud originated in KDE. I'll volunteer to review it if you or someone else packages it. --David _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
