Suggestions for an official GNOME hosted document collaboration suite?

2014-02-14 Thread Alex GS
Hello all, For better or for worse I've been using Google Documents for collaborative document editing but I would like to use something open-source. I'm thinking something like OwnCloud with ODT editing or perhaps something else that could be hosted by GNOME directly. I want to avoid all cloud

Re: Suggestions for an official GNOME hosted document collaboration suite?

2014-02-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Alex GS alxgrtnstr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, For better or for worse I've been using Google Documents for collaborative document editing but I would like to use something open-source. I'm thinking something like OwnCloud with ODT editing or perhaps

Re: Suggestions for an official GNOME hosted document collaboration suite?

2014-02-14 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: GNOME has a owncloud service. You can use that. (well, it might require bieng part of the foundation, but I might re-visit that decision) It really doesn't work for GNOME to provide free services like document

Re: Suggestions for an official GNOME hosted document collaboration suite?

2014-02-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: GNOME has a owncloud service. You can use that. (well, it might require bieng part of the foundation, but I might re-visit that decision)

Re: Suggestions for an official GNOME hosted document collaboration suite?

2014-02-14 Thread alex diavatis
It really doesn't work for GNOME to provide free services like document storage to the entire Internet population for whatever purpose they desire. It costs money per user, but we don't have a per-user revenue model. there is any legal issue that prevent gnome to introduce a per-user revenue

Re: Suggestions for an official GNOME hosted document collaboration suite?

2014-02-14 Thread Florian Müllner
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:27 PM, alex diavatis alexis.diava...@gmail.com wrote: there is any legal issue that prevent gnome to introduce a per-user revenue model, or in other words commercial services over open source solutions? Being a non-profit organization[0], I would assume so (but then I

Re: Suggestions for an official GNOME hosted document collaboration suite?

2014-02-14 Thread Julien Olivier
Le vendredi 14 février 2014 à 22:39 +0100, Florian Müllner a écrit : On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:27 PM, alex diavatis alexis.diava...@gmail.com wrote: there is any legal issue that prevent gnome to introduce a per-user revenue model, or in other words commercial services over open source

Re: Suggestions for an official GNOME hosted document collaboration suite?

2014-02-14 Thread alex diavatis
Being a non-profit organization[0], I would assume so (but then I am not a lawyer). Also no profit. Mozilla Foundation and Wikipedia. No profit has another meaning. But also I am not a lawyer :) On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Julien Olivier jul...@gmail.com wrote: Le vendredi 14 février

Re: Suggestions for an official GNOME hosted document collaboration suite?

2014-02-14 Thread Alex GS
It really doesn't work for GNOME to provide free services like document storage to the entire Internet population for whatever purpose they desire. It costs money per user, but we don't have a per-user revenue model. If you have business class subscription to OwnCloud then you're not doing

Re: Suggestions for an official GNOME hosted document collaboration suite?

2014-02-14 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-02-14 16:39, Florian Müllner wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:27 PM, alex diavatis alexis.diava...@gmail.com wrote: there is any legal issue that prevent gnome to introduce a per-user revenue model, or in other words commercial services over open source solutions? Being a non-profit

Re: Suggestions for an official GNOME hosted document collaboration suite?

2014-02-14 Thread Alex GS
there is any legal issue that prevent gnome to introduce a per-user revenue model, or in other words commercial services over open source solutions? Do you mean the following: + Support services that users can pay to the foundation? + Volunteers and foundation members paying a fee for access