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[Paul Dean]

Thanks for the insight Tim.

Have you started using the calendar side of ownCloud yet?

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On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:40:44 +0800
Tim Basten <tbasten at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi Paul,
>
>I jus installed the latest version on the weekend. Without having
>spent to much time on it, I have picked up a few things which are more
>of an annoyance then an issue. One of the, being that only allows for
>vCard formats for importing contacts. Wile there are ways to get most
>contacts to a vCard, having an option to import from other format
>types out be better. The other one is the android app is only for file
>sharing (from what I can tell). If you want to sync your contacts onto
>your phone, you need to download another app on your android that
>syncs vCards. Other then those things the layout of the website is
>really nice, it was really easy to setup and the chrome bookmarks
>extension work much better then delicious.
>
>I haven't been fully converted yet so at this stage I am still using
>Dropbox and gmail for my contacts.
>
>Thanks
>Tim
>
>On 27/06/2013, at 7:11 PM, Paul Dean <paul at thecave.ws> wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> What version of ownCloud are you running?
>>
>> I've been watching this over the past few years, and slowly as it matures, v5.0 looked it had reached a reasonable maturity level.
>>
>> Would love to hear more of ppls opinions about it.
>>
>>
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>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Paul Dean.
>>
>> "Life is not WHAT you make it, it's WHO you have in it..."
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:21:42 +0800
>> Michael Van Delft <michael at hybr.id.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Paul,
>>>
>>> I've setup a cheap VPS from linode running ownCloud and used the
>>> desktop client to sync files. I feel like it's 90% there but just
>>> needs a bit more polish before it becomes good enough that I'd move
>>> all my stuff from Google Drive/Contacts/Calendar/Mail (There is a
>>> Roundcube plugin for mail)/Bookmarks. I've found it to be a little
>>> slow but that could be because I'm hosting it on the cheapest linode
>>> server I could find it's got 512mb RAM and hosted in Singapore. Might
>>> be a lot quicker hosted on a beefier machine at home.
>>>
>>> I've got it running at https://hybr.id.au if you want to try it out I
>>> can set up an account for you. (I use a certificate from cacert.org so
>>> if you get a certificate warning don't worry.)
>>>
>>> I'd also be very interested to hear about any open source self hosted
>>> cloud solutions especially if anyone knows of a self hosted office
>>> suite like Google Docs.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Paul Del <p at delfante.it> wrote:
>>>> Hey
>>>>
>>>> Has any one used Owncloud.org?
>>>> Any thoughts
>>>> Or other recommendations of similar
>>>>
>>>> It's supposed to be more open cloud services
>>>>
>>>> Cheers Paul
>>>>
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