[Owncloud] Re: Time to reach out to other projects?

[Robin Appelman]

> For the following reasons I think its important for owncloud to continue
> to  position itself as a part of the KDE commuinty:
> 
> - KDE is by far not "only desktop" any more, it's a platform where people
> build their solutions upon. For Owncloud its beneficial to be part the
> framework.
> 
> - Even if we talk Desktop, where owncloud imo needs a good integration to
> become successful, KDE is a good partner. This does by far not mean that
> its limited to KDE only, think Desktop Summit, its cross Desktop.
> 
> - The KDE community is huge, with lots of smart people and a big impact
> in FOSS. If these people comment on, use and finally promote owncloud
> that can only be beneficial. The more people in KDE like owncloud and
> use it for their projects, the larger the installed base of owncloud
> becomes. That is important for owncloud.
> 
> I think that it would be dangerous for owncloud to go away from KDE.
> Frankly, owncloud is still a bunch of php scripts with so far ok
> functionality, even though it has huge potential. But its not there yet.
> There are millions of php based projects out there and I am convinced
> that owncloud wouldn't be where it is if Frank weren't active in KDE
> and KDE people helped to promote it.
> 
> Why for example would distributors pick owncloud and integrate it into
> the Linux distributions? I can tell you from own experience that the
> argument "its KDEs cloud idea" helps. Otherwise you quickly end up
> in the "oh yeah, another cool php based web app" - corner ;-)
> 
> regards,
> 
> Klaas

I would like to keep ownCloud part of the KDE community for the same reasons, 
it is one of the largest free software communities and ownCloud has benefited 
from that in the past and will probably benefit from in the future.

But we do have to make sure we don't become a KDE only app in the eyes of the 
(potential) users and developers.

 - Robin Appelman