[Owncloud] Re: Contribute a 'social' app

[Sam Tuke]

On Thursday 12 May 2011 05:23:57 Bastian Neumann wrote: 
> I like the idea of ownCloud and I am having a close look at the sources
> right now.
> I am thinking about a social network app. That means, that every one who
> has an ownCloud account on a server can have a profile and a list of
> friends with whom they are able to share files. It is just a rough idea
> but I want to hear your opinion on a function to share files with selected
> friends.

How about making this an add-on / plugin-in for diaspora and appleseed? I 
think this would be a better long term approach than building a new social 
network system on top of own-cloud. 

It could be tightly integrated in a variety of ways, and could also serve to 
promote awareness of own-cloud to what will presumably be the large number of 
people using those two FS applications.

There are already applications that do social networking well. You could bring 
what owncloud's file hosting / sharing abilities to those applications instead 
of bringing their functionality to owncloud.

Something like "if you have an owncloud server install this diaspora plugin 
and enter your webdab address to add filesharing capabilities to your profile".

Just an idea,

Sam.

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Sam Tuke
British Team Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
IM : samtuke at jabber.fsfe.org
Contact the British team: uk at fsfeurope.org
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