[Owncloud] GSoC idea: mobile app <--> oC News app

[Alessandro Cosentino]

Notice that any discussion about ownCloud projects for GSoC is
suspended at the moment.
It's not clear if we can still participate under KDE umbrella and we
are looking for an alternative way of participating.
I will keep you updated.

Alessandro

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt
<hey at jancborchardt.net> wrote:
> Looking through the page I also found this interesting project:
> Marble meets ownCloud
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2013/Ideas#Project:_Marble_meets_owncloud
>
> If someone wants to write a maps app this might be a good time to do it and
> collaborate. Could be used for saving favorite locations, displaying
> locations of friends, saving routes and travel plans, tracking your
> location, etc etc.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Qingping Hou <dave2008713 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just a quick question, so this project will be mainly focused on the
>> mobile app side instead of the server backend?
>>
>> It will also be a good idea to write a new sync app in Kindle BTW ;P
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Alessandro Cosentino <cosenal at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > For your information, the description of the project is now on the KDE
>> > community page:
>> >
>> > http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2013/Ideas#Mobile_app_that_syncs_with_ownCloud_News_app
>> >
>> > Alessandro
>> >
>> > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Torsten Grote <grote at kolabsys.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Hi Alessandro,
>> >>
>> >> On Wednesday 06 March 2013 11:00:27 Alessandro Cosentino wrote:
>> >>> Finally I got myself to start writing the API for the News app.
>> >>> Bernhard, Jan and I are going to be polishing the app during a
>> >>> mini-sprint some time this month.
>> >>
>> >> That is great news! :)
>> >> I here the ownCloud News resource for KDE's akregator is also nearing
>> >> completion.
>> >>
>> >>> The questions are:
>> >>> - does this make sense? or it would make more sense to implement first
>> >>> a mobile navigation theme for oC web interface?
>> >>
>> >> I think this is a great idea. Whether it should be standalone or
>> >> integrated in
>> >> the current app, should probably be discussed with Bartek.
>> >>
>> >>> - what mobile platform do you suggest? Obviously I advocate some open
>> >>> source OS, but I don't have a feeling for which one it should be.
>> >>> Firefox OS, Plasma Active, Android, Phonegap, ... ?
>> >>
>> >> Since Android is currently deployed the most, I'd go for this. If you
>> >> go
>> >> standalone, it might also make sense to take an existing free news app
>> >> and try
>> >> to see if it is possible to give it an owncloud backend.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Torsten
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Torsten Grote, Kolab Evangelist
>> >>
>> >> Kolab Systems AG, Zürich, Switzerland
>> >>
>> >> e: grote at kolabsys.com
>> >> t: +41 43 501 66 91
>> >> w: http://kolabsys.com
>> >>
>> >> pgp: 274D 4F97 Torsten Grote
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