Matching Google's "cloud" experience with OwnCloud?

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MagicFab
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Beigetreten: 12/13/2010

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Hi

I have been following the OwnCloud project for some time now (
http://owncloud.org/ ), being interested in reproducing/matching
Google's services as provided by the Google Apps which of course we want
to avoid in this context.

CyanogenMod makes it easy to have a "clean" Android experience,
mostly-free. I am using that as I don't have any of the devices
supported by Replicant yet (well, I did, then the Nexus One broke). This
works for me but I'd like to invite actual Replicant users to try and
improve the current alternatives to Google services.

If anyone using Replicant wants to try using OwnCloud services, I have
setup a test instance on a Dreamhost shared hosting account. Let me know
off-list and I can provide you a testing account. It runs the latest
OwnCloud version, and provides CalDav, CardDav, WebDav, file sync, music
streaming, etc. Of course this implies whoever takes me on this offer
will abundantly share the results back here :)

Such services are supported by free open source apps, I have documented
them here:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/OwnCloud#Android_Mobile_clients

Having such applications pre-installed and some sort of integration to
replicate the "login once on your device, everything works" Google
experience, except adding a preliminary "setup your local/personal
OwnCloud server" first :)

Let me know, I will have to set you up manually, and the data may very
well be wiped out every 2-3 weeks, but if you're interested in testing
using a clean, vanilla OwnCloud server, I am making mine available.

Cheers,

Fabian Rodriguez
http://fsf.magicfab.ca

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oysterboy

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Beigetreten: 02/01/2011

I have tried owncloud on my local server, and on a shared host, and ran into a lot of bugs (I opened a few on their bug tracker system). Most problematic for me, was losing access to my calendar after an upgrade. I must say I don't trust owncloud to host my data in the current state of the product.

Replacing google calendar is more difficult than I thought. I currently use WebCalendar on a shared hosting, but there's no caldav support.

I tried to setup davical on my home server but it was difficult for me. Although caldav worked straight away, the lack of a web editor and the lack of an import/export in ics format was a dealbreaker for me. If those functionalities do exist, please let me know!

So does anything exist besides owncloud and davical to try to replicate the Google calendar experience?

MagicFab
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Beigetreten: 12/13/2010

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On 12-11-17 08:45 PM, name at domain wrote:
> I have tried owncloud on my local server, and on a shared host, and ran into a lot of bugs (I
opened a few on their bug tracker system). Most problematic for me, was
losing access to my calendar after an upgrade. I must say I don't trust
owncloud to host my data in the current state of the product.
>
> Replacing google calendar is more difficult than I thought. I
currently use WebCalendar on a shared hosting, but there's no caldav
support.
>
> I tried to setup davical on my home server but it was difficult for
me. Although caldav worked straight away, the lack of a web editor and
the lack of an import/export in ics format was a dealbreaker for me. If
those functionalities do exist, please let me know!
>
> So does anything exist besides owncloud and davical to try to
replicate the Google calendar experience?

I was offering accounts to firther test/debug so whenever future version
of Trisquel are updated, they will include a better OwnCloud.

If you have specific problems in OwnCloud or Davical, there isn't much
point in discussing them here at the moment. The best place would be
upstream, filing bugs on the respective bug trackers and starting
discussions on the respective forums.

F.

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