Well there is a fair amount of development surrounding Libreoffice being built to run inside a web browser, that integrated with owncloud would be pretty much what you are talking about.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Using_LibreOffice_in_a_Web_Browser https://owncloud.org/blog/libreoffice-online-has-arrived-in-owncloud/ On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Prastut Kumar <kr.pras...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi ownCloud team and community, > > I am Prastut Kumar, a CS sophomore at Vellore Institute of Technology, > Chennai India. A big fan of Don Norman's work in cognitive science, my > major interests lie at the intersection of Design and Technology (Society, > Internet- Security, Privacy). My belief and research experiences have > helped me fuel interest in design and development of interactive Internet > based digital platforms. Contributing to ownCloud motivates me for 2 > strong reasons: > > > - *The vision: *ownCloud goes way beyond transitional projects and > gives a tough competition to Google Drive or Dropbox. That's a lot to say > in one statement. The privilege to allow anyone to install and operate it > on a private server with *no *limits to storage space is a noteworthy > notion but to actually achieve it is another thing. There are still > millions of people not connected to the Internet. A report by IAMAI said > that Indian Internet users rose to 402 million by December 2015, an > increase by 49 per cent compared to last year. This meteoric rise in > Internet user base, which will mostly be people with less incomes > (mid-urban, rural areas), will bring in more leading and pressing questions > on data storage, privacy and content. > > > - *Focus on design > user centered design: * When I first visited > ownCloud's website, I was amazed at the website presentation of content, > and by far the most eye-candy website for an open source project. This is > what I wanted to do when I initially made my mind to apply to GSOC, to fix > the website of the project. :D. I then went through the project ideas and > felt much emphasis is being put on user-experience and interaction design, > something which I intend to pursue in future. > > > I wish to work on the following projects, ranked in terms of interest: > > - *Reference Management App (similar to Zotero): *I am currently > working as a crowdresearch in "Dameo", a project by Stanford HCI group and > through their tasks had the opportunity to read through multiple papers. > Though I haven't used Zotero, I understood the need of having this > project. I > have almost completed my Angular course from Coursera so it would be an > amazing opportunity to apply that knowledge in practice. My Js experience > stems from interning at 2 startups, and a self initiated project > Cambuzz <http://cambuzz.co.in/>. > > > - *Browser extensions for ownCloud: *Before GSOC I was contributing to > Privly <https://priv.ly/>, which gives you control over your content > with various extensions. Therefore I can use the knowledge learnt and > contribute in making the chrome extension for ownCloud. > > > I wish to also propose a project, though I am not too sure how would I be > able to implement it. > > - *Docs for ownCloud: *Similar to Google Docs > <https://www.google.com/docs/about/>, if ownCloud provides this > functionality it will lead to the following: > - Trust and ownership of the content being put. > - People are able to work at the same document at the same time. > - Rest of the features being same: People can view documents, edit, > share them all on there own private server. > > > Handy Links: > > - Github: https://github.com/prastut > - Website: http://prastut.github.io/ > - Design portfolio: https://www.behance.net/prastutkumar > > > Thank you for your time and consideration. (Look for my PR's in a few days > time. :D) > > Regards, > Prastut > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@owncloud.org > http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen
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