[Owncloud] Plug ?play Box with Owncloud preinstalled

[RoboMod]

Hi List,

instead of selling a hole PC with OC preinstalled, it would be possible to
provide an minimal Linux distribution based on Debian or something else
with OC preinstalled for Rapberry Pis (like Raspbmc which offers XMBC).
That would offer an easy way to get an OC instance. And there is no
investment risc by producing and selling any hardware.

Are there any ideas like that? Or is someone working on something like that?

Best,
RoboMod

> Hi,
> unfortunately the Open-PC project is not active anymore at the moment.
The original idea was to build nicely preconfigured Linux PCs as
alternative to Windows and Mac PCs. We charged 50,- EUR more than the pure
> hardware price to provide a special preconfigured openSUSE with all the
right drivers installed, a telephone support hotline where you can call if
> you have questions about Linux, a donation for open source projects like
KDE and openSUSE, a few stickers and more.
> Unfortunately this didn't work and we sold only a few. Most people buy
the
> cheep hardware and install the software on their own.
> This could happen here again with ownCloud. Instead of buying an
ownCloud
> box for 75,- EU most people would probably buy a Raspberry PI and
install
> ownCloud on their own. But I could be wrong of course. :-)
> So if someone want's to do that then we could reuse the Open-PC project
for that. All the trademarks, domains, infrastructure, stickers and even
contracts with manufacturing partners are still here. Someone just has to
> step up :-)
> Frank
> On 16.05.2013, at 17:50, Doc Long <farsons2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> I saw about the OPEN PC project.
>> Is there any plan to build & sell a ready-to-go plug ?play Box with
Owncloud preinstalled, which small offices / or households (e.g. for 5-10
users) could simply plug into their router and start using for sharing /
accessing small files, adressbook, calendar??
>> That would be awesome, and I guess there is a big market/demand for
that! Most people would prefer to have the data in their own four
walls.
However installing & configuring such OC instance is still a big
obstacle!
>> Thank you!
>> Consider!
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