[Owncloud] GSoC 2012 Ideas page: time to add those ideas!

Bartek Przybylski bart.p.pl at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 21:15:16 UTC 2012


2012/3/1 Roland van Laar <roland at micite.net>:
> On 03/01/2012 10:52 AM, Pascal d'Hermilly wrote:
>>
>> Just an idea: App for geographically tracking your devices, in case they
>> get lost/stolen.
>>
>> An app that can recieve location data in a given interval- like once every
>> hour? Not necessarily with your owncloud credentials stored on the phone
>>
>> There are two parts.
>> Owncloud:
>> App where you create a device ID. (write-only authentication for a device)
>> Continuesly recieve location data. {x-pos,y-pos,precision}
>> List of devices you are tracking, perhaps with a map for each.
>>
>> Device application (android/iphone/laptop):
>> Takes an owncloud url and a device ID.
>> Contacts owncloud with location data at a given interval/ at certain
>> events.
>
>
> I like this idea.
> I have two other ones as well.
>
> 1) It would be nice to have a more advanced apps structure with a package
> list.
> -- Users could choose an app via an 'app-store', and it will download and
> install it self.
> -- Individual apps can be updated via the 'app-store'.
> -- Users can upload their own apps to their owncloud instance (this can open
> a lot of security issues).
>

http://apps.owncloud.com/
i don't know how deeply its integrated into existing implementation
@ownClouders: can anyone comment ?

> 2) Better urls, i.e. have a routing structure for urls.
> -- get rid of the .php extension for urls
> -- register php functions or files with urls so that not every php file is
> accessible from the web.
>

This one can be solved using apache mod_rewrite, this can't be done
using php calls
since it's apache specific behaviour we can't introduce cross httpd solution

> Idea 1) would open up a lot of possibilities and cut back on the feature
> creep of the owncloud core.
>
> Regards,
>
> Roland
>
>
>>
>>
>> Den 01-03-2012 10:15, Teo Mrnjavac skrev:
>>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> This is a friendly reminder that the GSoC mentoring organization
>>> application period closes in a week. I see that many of you have added
>>> lots of interesting ideas but there are still empty spots in that wiki
>>> page so I'm confident that we can do even better!
>>>
>>> If any of you still have ideas for this year's GSoC please add them to
>>> the wiki page [1] as soon as possible and before March 9.
>>>
>>> [1] http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2012/Ideas
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>
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