[Owncloud] [gsoc12] project proposition

[Bartek Przybylski]

there is a facebook api for photo upload
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/rest/photos.upload/
flickr also provides upload api
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/upload.api.html

but i guess its too small for gsoc ;) ill keep on thinking about projects ideas

bartek

2012/2/28 Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org>:
> Cool idea.
> But I think this is overlapping with what Michael and Robin are already working on. The mounting of external data sources like dropbox, google docs, and more if possible.
>
> The files appear directly in the filesystem and are accessible for all applications.
>
> So if we manage to do a connector to flickr or facebook the Gallery app can automatically show all the photos stores in there. ;-)
> Note: I haven´t checked if it is actually possible to access the flickr or facebook api like this.
>
> Michael committed already a first step of the Google Docs integration. Very cool.
>
> Frank
>
>
> On 28.02.2012, at 16:25, Bartek Przybylski <bart.p.pl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> I wanted to propose project for upcomig Google Summer of Code.
>>
>> Project: synchronization backend for ownCloud
>> Goal: Provide extendable API and couple of backends to external
>> storage (dropbox, simple scp etc) and services (google contacts, etc)
>> Detailed description:
>>
>> Goal of this project will be to provide two-way synchronization
>> between OC and chosen backend,
>> ownCloud apps should not be aware of synchronization process and see
>> synchronized files.
>> Specific apps (contacts, gallery, etc) shouldnt directyl call
>> synchronization event, it should be done via
>> Hooks mechanism and preferably asynchronous.
>> This task might also require to add more general hooks or change
>> current mechanism, but might be solved via adjusting backends for
>> specialized app.
>>
>> Proposed mentor: myself ;)
>>
>> what do you all think ?
>>
>> bartek
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