[Owncloud] The open-source release of Enyo, and our problems with mobile deployment.

[Matthew McKeen]

Hey all:

Aaron Reichman and I had begun the ownCloud webOS app last year, but with the 
death of webOS, the codebase has stagnated.  With the recent open-sourcing of 
the enyo (enyojs.com) javascript framework which powers the UI layers of 
webOS, I feel like a good way to create a fully functional mobile interface 
for ownCloud would be to leverage the enyo code already used in our extremely 
young webOS application and finish it.  This cross-platform  javascript library 
could be: embedded in other mobile applications, using native APIs, 
transformed into a glorious web interface for mobile phones, and furthermore 
could prove to be a very good platform upon which to built other 
clients/interfaces for ownCloud.  I just merged in some code to the webOS app 
yesterday, and would be happy to continue to develop/maintain it if the 
community thinks that using enyo as a platform for new ownCloud applications 
is a good idea.  It is an extremely powerful toolkit, and I believe that it 
greatly increase ownCloud's uses in non-traditional form factors, tablets, and 
the like, as the traditional ownCloud UI does not fit those devices very well.

I welcome input on this.

Long live ownCloud!
Matthew McKeen   

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Matthew McKeen
mmckeen at ucla.edu