[Owncloud] dev status and help offer

[Bartek Przybylski]

Irc meeting will take place tommorow 15.09.2011 @8pm CEST we have few
topics, but another one wont be a problem ;)

2011/9/14 Alessandro Cosentino <cosenal at gmail.com>:
> Hi Sven,
> I am interested in the integration of Akonadi and Owncloud too.
> In particular, my project consists of creating an Akonadi RSS resource
> which has Owncloud as a backend.
> As I wrote on this list before, Jakob Sack and I are going to work on
> this soon, once I am done working with Akregator.
> Maybe we should plan an Akonadi+Owncloud IRC meeting some time.
>
> Alessandro
> (zimba12 on Freenode)
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Sven <sven.assmann at lubico.biz> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> at first my gitorious username is sassman
>>
>> The issue of "figure out what features the server side app supports" is a
>> general problem. So it is also neccessary to have a version number, to check
>> if the (android-)client is combatible to the server application.
>>
>> To solve this issue it would be the best to have a own action/url on the
>> server side that offers some informations to the client. Something like:
>> version number, supported applications (contacts, calendar etc..), supported
>> protocols etc. can make sense to me.
>>
>> So the next steps for me are:
>> - take a closer look at the goole contacts api
>> - figure out how the webdav lookup implementation (especial for contacts) in
>> owncloud works
>>
>> maybe i have additional questions to these topics.
>>
>> but for now have big thanks for the nice welcome.
>>
>> --
>> Sven
>>
>> Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011, 16:44:06 schrieb Bartek Przybylski:
>>> Hi!
>>> Jan has a point there. I also was thinking about syncing to native
>>> contacts book.
>>> But the question which im asking myself is not how to sync contacts, but how
>>> to find out that server is supporting contacts book, calendar etc.
>>>
>>> 2011/9/14 Jan-Christoph Borchardt <JanCBorchardt at fsfe.org>:
>>> > Hey Sven! Good to have you.
>>> > Do you have an account at http://Gitorious.org ? Let me know your
>>> > username so I can add you to the contributors team, then you will have
>>> > commit access to the Android repository.
>>> >
>>> > Jakob (cc'd) works on the contacts implementation on the server side.
>>> >
>>> > As for the app itself, we shouldn’t replicate native functions where we
>>> > don’t need to. The contacts should be synced with the Android address
>>> > book because that can tie in to everything else. There is no point in
>>> > reinventing everything (contacts, calendar, music player, …) – we just
>>> > have to get integration right: syncing, file browsing, calling other
>>> > apps for opening, etc.
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, September 14, 2011 16:00, Sven Aßmann wrote:
>>> >> should it be possible to "browse" the contacts with the owncloud app?
>>> >> Or will it be good enough that the background sync application
>>> >> will sync the contacts to the "normal" adressbook?
>>> >>
>>> >> Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011, 07:40:48 schrieben Sie:
>>> >>> Hi Sven!
>>> >>> I'm interested in your participation in android project ;) because i
>>> >>> was planning to implement syncing of contacts and calendar events
>>> >>> with
>>> >>> owncloud server. Android app src is available on gitorious, but for
>>> >>> mentioned features some server support is required, so this is a
>>> >>> start
>>> >>> point for them. If you decide to help on android app ill answer any
>>> >>> question you have.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Bartek
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 2011/9/13 Sven Aßmann <sven.assmann at lubico.biz>:
>>> >>> > Hi @All,
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > can anybody say me something about the current development
>>> >>> > status of
>>> >>> > contacts implementation to owncloud? Or where i found (exept
>>> >>> > repository) some status information?
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Are there any plans to implement:
>>> >>> >  1. An Akonadi (for KDE PIM >= 2.0) Resource holder for
>>> >>> > Contacts,
>>> >>> > Calendar or Tasks?
>>> >>> >  2. An Android account/sync application for sharing for
>>> >>> > Contacts,
>>> >>> > Calendar or Tasks to the android mobile?
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Is it possible to help you within these topics? I familar with
>>> >>> > PHP,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> CPP
>>> >>>
>>> >>> > and also JAVA ..
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > --
>>> >>> > Best Regards
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Sven Aßmann
>>> >>> >
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>>> >>> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
>>> >>
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