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

[Thomas Müller]

Am Donnerstag, den 01.03.2012 um 22:15 schrieb Bartek Przybylski:
> 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
> 

Too bad php can't/doesn't take care of routing. Rails does - but that's another story.

mod_rewrite exist on all major web server (even IIS ;-) )
Sadly they use different syntax, but we could solve this by adding this to the wiki/documentation.

I strongly vote for going into this direction!

> > 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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