A safe haven for the community's memories

[Piyush Aggarwal]

Hi Ben,

On Wed, 29 Jan, 2020, 2:42 PM Ben Cooksley, <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:

> 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)
>

I understand that. I thought the part where this task is opened for
everyone to view was implicit in my earlier statement (if there is no
sensitive content, as I said). I personally think this problem deserves a
task of its own, and the idea to have a task for this on the promo board
was not mine alone, but rather suggested by Paul.


> > 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.
>

That is true. I believe KDE events make use of events.kde.org and
reimbursements.kde.org infrastructure that both require an identity to be
able to register for an event and/ or ask for any reimbursements
respectively. Does that leave any possible uploaders?

Best
Piyush Aggarwal
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