Hi Jan, I see the point and I agree mostly. We have two BoF sessions at the Desktop Summit so I suggest to discuss this there in person.
I also have some concrete ideas and proposals for the future. Cheers Frank On 25.07.2011, at 14:29, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: > 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. > > -- Frank Karlitschek [email protected] _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
