A safe haven for the community's memories

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 5:16 AM Piyush Aggarwal
<piyushaggarwal002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Thanks for taking this discussion forward, Adriaan and Carl.
>
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 14:24, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Monday, 27 January 2020 07:27:42 CET Piyush Aggarwal wrote:
>> > > Almost always, photographs, videos and other forms of digital memorabilia
>> > > are so badly dispersed among the attendees, many of us have barely any
>> > > photographs from the event. The only way to get the photos we want is by
>> > > immediately getting the photographs on our phone then and there, during
>> > > the
>> > > event. The alternative after the event concludes and everyone is back home
>> > > safely, is to expect the sender to send the photographs as a mail
>> > > attachment or some other way that is generally a pain.
>> > > So, this mail thread aims to initiate a discussion on the prospect of
>> > > setting up a Kloud, of sorts.
>> ...
>> > > The current best solution as far as I know, is https://share.kde.org ,
>> > > which is limited to just 100 MB.
>> > > Would it be feasible for the KDE Community, especially our sysadmins, to
>> > > host a server for this purpose? :-)
>> > >
>> > > References
>> > > [1] : https://las2019.bcnfs.org/doku.php?id=wiki:lasphotos
>>
>> There was a discussion -- it's a sysadmin ticket, I don't know if it's
>> readable for all -- at https://phabricator.kde.org/T12026 for a similar
>> situation with LAS photos. Not the *same*, though, since that was also for
>> "raw" materials to be shared with video editors and other PR people.
>
>
> I cannot access that task, Adriaan. Perhaps if the task does not include any sensitive content, we can put it on the promo task board for everyone to help us with? :-)

Please note that Sysadmin tasks are shielded by mechanisms that mean
placing it on another board will not make it accessible to others (so
adding it to the Promo board will not make it accessible to you)

> Anyways, after some discussions with Paul, I think we have a solution for future events.
> The Photos folder on share.kde.org currently hosts photographs for Promo sprint (Barcelona,2018), Akademy (Vienna,2018), FOSDEM (Brussels, 2019) and this year's conf.kde.in (Delhi).
> share.kde.org also has good support in terms of user access control- users can be limited to adding new photographs, but not deleting any already uploaded files. I can confirm this works just as expected.
> So, the solution proposed here is- we can share read & upload-only permissions to the Photos folder to all KDE identities, and create a new folder per-event.
> Would that be feasible?

Access to share.kde.org is currently limited to developers and other
community members.

>
> Best
> Piyush Aggarwal

Cheers,
Ben