On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Anthony Papillion <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Nikos Roussos <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Currently I'm aware of two solutions: Sparkleshare and Melissi.
> Sparkleshare
> > depends on git, which is ok for regular files but problematic for
> > music/videos/etc, and I have some privacy concerns because it uses a
> public
> > irc server for notifications. Melissi is still on alpha version, but it
> uses
> > the "right" technologies for this kind of thing.
>
> Thanks Nikos! I'm probably going to check out Melissi since I really
> don't like the idea of using a public IRC server, even if it's just
> for notifications. Without looking, I'm assuming Melissi never moves
> my data to the cloud? It all always stays on my home server?
>

Your data stays on the "cloud" the melissi-server runs (in your case your
home server) and locally on every pc you run melissi-client. More or less
like Dropbox.

> PS. It would be nice to share with us the rest software stack you are
> > currently using on your home server.
>
> It's not a sophisticated setup at all. I'm always looking to refine it
> though:
>
> - Ubuntu Linux
> - Postfix mail
> - Roundcube Webmail
> - Homebrew document creation (HTML converted by script to ODF)
>
> I'm looking at Zimbra right now as it looks like the open source
> edition might just provide replacements for a few of these but we'll
> see.
>

Personally I prefer Zarafa over Zimbra :)

Any thoughts on how this might be improved?
>

You may want to check out Feng-Office also. If you want to have document
management.

I'm currently testing the Amahi project. It's a Fedora-based distribution
that simpleifies the whole proccess of setting up a home server.

-- 
Nikos Roussos
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