[Owncloud] dev status and help offer

[rom1dep]

2011/9/14 Bart Visscher <bartv at thisnet.nl>:
> Hi Sven and Alessandro,
>
> Have a look at the CalDAV and CardDAV standards. Owncloud has (almost) full support for these protocols. For Android there is a OSS app called acal, it works with CalDAV and for CardDAV is a branch. Maybe Akonadi can also use these protocols.

Yep, indeed, I have been using Akonadi (Korganizer) with Google
Calendar's caldav for months. It works well.

I tried the same with owncloud but if failed :( ...

If someone has any idea on how to make korganizer and owncloud speak
together, I'm interested ;)

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rom1dep.

> Greetings,
> Bart
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CardDAV
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 01:25:06PM -0400, Alessandro Cosentino wrote:
>> 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 A?mann 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 A?mann <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 A?mann
>> >> >>> >
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