[Owncloud] Re: ownCloud, SyncML and Akunambol

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 02.12.2010, at 08:10, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I am currently in the process of making Akunambol a plugin based application, 
> to enable KDE (starting from Plasma) to benefit from a syncing framework.
> 
> This would not only mean syncing stuff via SyncML, even if SyncML is certainly 
> a big player.
> 
> Just to start, I'd like to make a couple of usually misunderstood things 
> clear:
> 
>  - Akunambol is NOT a PIM application. Or at least, it is not going to be. It 
> is actually not even going to be (just) an application. :)
>  - SyncML is a completely mimetype agnostic protocol. It could sync 
> everything, including stuff like files, or random binary data. It is not even 
> limited to mobile platforms (e.g. sync via bluetooth) - actually - Ubuntu One 
> is built on top of it.
> 
> With it we could do stuff like simple file syncing (ala dropbox/ubuntu one) or 
> more complex things, like configuration syncing, sharing data, backups of 
> random things (nepomuk metadata?)...
> 
> SyncML usually needs a centralized server. ownCloud seems like the best point 
> where we can work on this. I have talked with one of ownCloud developers one 
> month ago or such (can't remember the name :/), and, some time before, with 
> Frank too. They both seemed to think that this was a terrific idea. :)
> 
> So, what I propose would be something like:
> 
> - having a SyncML implementation on ownCloud:
> 
>  - using one of the many SyncML PHP libraries where it's the only thing we 
> support.
>  - using funambol wherever we have a shell access (it's an awesome AGPLv3 
> app, unfortunately written in java). This would open up collaboration from 
> some funambol guys that could help us in their free time, who have already 
> shown much interest.
> 
> - using akunambol or any other local application that supports the SyncML 
> protocol to perform the actual sync. This would include allowing to sync 
> directly to mobile phones or other devices (via http/syncml).
> 
> Soo... what do you people think? I've tried to keep this email as short as 
> possible to ensure everybody could easily get to the end of it, but I think it 
> already reflects the immense possibilities that we have. :)

Hi Riccardo,

sounds like a good idea to me. I suggest to make this an ownCloud plugin

> 
> I had to schedule an IRC meeting in November to discuss this, but got a bit 
> caught up with school - do you think it could be worthwhile to do it now-
> soonish?

sure :-)


> Bye,
> -Riccardo


Cheers
Frank


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