[Owncloud] openPhoto integration with owncloud and SoK

[Jaisen Mathai]

Michiel,

Exciting to see the progress! A couple points...

- add in the OAuth dialog in the setup process
Look at the Dropbox flow as it has an oauth step in there. It might be
messy to include this in the setup controller since it wasn't planned to
handle this but once it's working it's easy to refactor.

- not only push to remote storage but also pull from there if updates happen
That's an awesome feature. The way we've typically handled this type of
"extra" functionality is by having a separate repository for it instead of
building in "polling" scripts into the frontend repository. Thoughts?

- make OpenPhoto serve the photos directly from remote instead of from
local fs
Are you sure you want to do this? I only ask because OpenPhoto generates N
number of lower resolution photos for viewing on the web and mobile
devices. Do users really want all these copies in their remote storage? I
see these low resolution version files as simply for the sake of working on
the web but otherwise provide no additional value to the user. Also, since
they are low resolution they don't take up much space at all (so the local
FS doesn't need to be huge). My perspective is that the originals are what
need to remain in the user's control...especially considering the low res
photos can be reproduced easily.

- get rid of local file system dependency
See above.

Jaisen

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Michiel de Jong <michiel at unhosted.org>wrote:

> yes! i'm working on that (CC'ing Jaisen from OpenPhoto as well)
>
> it's not finished yet, and i'm working on something else this week,
> but i already successfully installed
> https://github.com/unhosted/openphoto in local file system +
> remoteStorage mode, with my own ownCloud server hard-coded as the
> remoteStorage backend.
>
> stuff that needs doing:
> - add in the OAuth dialog in the setup process
> - not only push to remote storage but also pull from there if updates
> happen
> - make OpenPhoto serve the photos directly from remote instead of from
> local fs
> - get rid of local file system dependency
>
> The way i'm doing it is via ownCloud's remoteStorage API. this means
> that OpenPhoto will become compatible with not only ownCloud, but also
> other servers that support remoteStorage.
>
> Are you a PHP programmer? we can work together on it! :) I'm
> michielbdejong, and i'm usually in both the #unhosted and the
> #owncloud IRC channels on freenode. If you don't have an IRC client,
> use irccloud.com or webchat.freenode.net.
>
> If by SoK you mean Google Summer of Code, then we would need to talk
> about what exactly you want to program, and i or someone else might
> find time to mentor you, that would be fun!
>
> Cheers,
> Michiel
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Michael Grosser
> <owncloud at seetheprogress.net> wrote:
> > as far as i know unhosted.org is working on that too. best is to say
> hello
> > to michiel_bdejong in #unhosted on irc.freenode.org
> > cheers Michaelmases
> >
> > On Apr 26, 2012 8:44 PM, "Shivani Jain" <shivani1723 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> I am an Computer Science student from India. I am intrested in working
> for
> >> the integration of openPhoto in owncloud. Till now openPhoto only
> supports
> >> Dropbox and Amazon S3,
> >> adding support for Owncloud would be great, so that users can directly
> >> upload their pictures existing on their local sever directly to
> openPhoto.
> >>
> >> I would like to know if there is somebody who could guide me more on
> this
> >> as I am intrested in working on this for SoK.
> >>
> >> Also I would like to know if there are more ideas available for working
> on
> >> Owncloud that I can see.
> >>
> >> Thanks&Regards
> >> SHIVANI JAIN
> >>
> >>
> >>
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