On Sunday 13 December 2015 13:42:48 Mickaël Fourgeaud wrote: > Hi, > > Even though I have a strong experience in software dev and UX, I am new to > the ownCloud community. > But the announce of the plug&play ownCloud initiative took me out of the > shadows. > I can be really lazy. But a good lazy, meaning that I need things to be > automated if it can be, leading me to develop automated services to create > vm, private servers, remote SVNs, bots to play the boring parts of modern > games... > So I'm happy to see an opportunity to use my skills and laziness to help > the community. > > This is a great initiative to allow a bigger user base with few or no > technical knowledge to switch to ownCloud from private services. > My parents, and certainly the parents of most of us here, would make a > perfect fit for this category of new users. > But to ensure that even my parents would be able to set it up, it would > require the most simple and user friendly approach. > > These days, most users will look for an app to solve a problem, so I > propose to use an application to solve the set up stage. > I will list here a few requirements: > - as a user I should be able to download the app on my android or ios > device to set up my ownCloud > - as a user I should be able to see all ownCloud servers connected to my > network and their status(set up, storage left, number of hdds...) > - as a user I should be able to complete the set up stage without prior > technical knowledge > - as a user I should be able to access my ownCloud in a short amount of > time(~10min) after plugging it in for the first time. (This is more of a > quality requirements) > > These features could easily be integrated in any existing apps in the > future, and some may in fact be redundant. > > So far the idea is close to the web interface presented by Daniel Hansson > (enoch85). They could be merged, but diversity can also bring new solutions > and ideas to the mix. I'll let the community judge on this! > > I will be meeting a few friends around Christmas time to discuss on this > project, but this is it for now. > Thanks for reading, I'm looking forward to your feedback!
This is a very cool idea, yes. Having an app which looks on the network for a Pi ownCloud device to (help) set it up is something, I think, we should have. And I think several of the other approaches can benefit from your input and work on such an app. You think you can build an app which works on enough platforms? I mean, Win/Mac/Lin would probably be the minimum, mobile is of course awesome, too... Note that it doesn't have to be perfect already at the end of January ;-) > Mickaël -- Disclaimer: Everything I do and say is based on my view of the world today. I am not responsible for changes in the world, nor my view on it. Everything I say is meant in a positive and friendly way, unless explicitly stated otherwise. find me on blog.jospoortvliet.com
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