I agree 100% with what Aaron said. Before I started contributing to ownCloud I thought it was a KDE project and to be honest, was almost put off by that. (Although I use GNOME and contributed to that & Ubuntu, I consider myself a web person above any desktop affiliation.)
The KDE community and infrastructure sure is great but I believe that there are "neutral" platforms which are even better. Such as Transifex and Gitorious, where the project was very visible and had 45 forks already. While I know this is not a measure, getting an account at KDE identity and requesting developer access is a hurdle. As primarily a web project we should power other free web platforms (as we already do with Identi.ca to an extent). I‘m not pushing for this but I think we should change sooner or later. Though we are all volunteers we must understand that ownCloud has the potential to (or rather currently already is) the best free & open-source alternative to projects such as Dropbox & iCloud/MobileMe. Thus we have to, as Aaron said, embrace other web projects and not, if I may say so, limit us in the security that KDE offers. Nearly every day I see someone ask for a real Dropbox alternative and people have to refer to SpiderOak or Wuala which are not a solution. We need to be more visible and (through that) more known. I‘m sure people can‘t wait to use & contribute to ownCloud. On Mon, July 25, 2011 10:55, Aaron Reichman wrote: > Personally, I like the idea of strengthening our ties to other projects by > being a separate entity that interacts equally with everybody like Apache, > Wordpress and other server based projects. I think we run the risk of becoming the KDE cloud otherwise when we could be the open/free cloud. Nobody else is doing the things we're doing in the way we're doing them and > I think we should make the most of the situation we find ourselves in. Nothing stops us from being just as involved in KDE as we are now while becoming more involved with gnome, XFCE, enlightenment and whoever else wants to help us out. > > That being said, I have no problems with being a KDE project, either. KDE > is > an amazing community and we should be proud to be a part of it. I just think > we can maintain a great relationship with KDE without sacrificing other possible relationships. Whatever the group decides I'm fine with, just wanted to put in my $0.02. _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
