On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Le 2013-11-12 09:50, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : >> >> The Owncloud storage was opened based on a big and loud demand during >> the Milano Marketing session on a simple file storage service. The wiki >> was deemed a PITA, hence we ended up with OwnCloud. >>
So a little backstory: When we did the site redesign (for 4.0, IIRC), I procured a number of source images of all-in-one computers under a permissive license and wanted to put those in some shared space online (for the Design/Website teams). When I tried to upload those files to the wiki, I encountered a couple of different issues including - The wiki couldn't consistently handle files 5MB+ - Image preview/thumbnails were flakey for larger images - I had to upload one file at a time I did a bit of digging for a while and, encouraged by Florian, tested out a few options and finally decided that ownCloud was a pretty decent option for storing a bunch of files in a shared space online. Based on my notes, Florian put ownCloud into service. The application wasn't perfect, but it had a pretty simple interface and allowed us to upload even big files (100-200MB was no problem), so it suited our immediate needs quite well. We'd done some preliminary testing in the month leading up to the Milan conference, but hadn't used the system very heavily. By chance, Charles mentioned that Marketing really, REALLY wanted a simple system to store files, and we told him that we had just the thing... > This still seems to blur the lines of wiki and OwnCloud use. Are we still > using the wiki for marketing work? I viewed the LibreOffice OwnCloud as a > temporary file storage area where people would upload their work for the > mailing list members to view, BUT, the wiki would remain as our official > file repository tool. Or are we now changing this? If we are, this would > have a large impact on marketing, design and documentation. We store a lot > of docs on our wiki. Good questions! I largely see ownCloud as a general-purpose place to store "stuff" for the project. This includes drafts and papers and images and videos, big files related to particular bug reports, and basically anything that we want to share with one another. I generally view the wiki in the same way. I know that there are a few things that are a bit more formal on the wiki, like the Trademark and Branding guidelines: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Policies/TradeMark_Policy https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding Those wiki pages are a couple of things that I think might more appropriate live on a separate website or in a separate namespace to help demarcate them as being Policy pages, rather than a part of the anyone-can-edit wiki space. > BUT, the wiki would remain as our official > file repository tool. So where would you suggest different families of files live? I think we all see a difference between computer_image_file_01_of_20.jpg and finished-draft-of-whitepaper_rtryon.pdf. Thinking off the top of my head, one option would be to put all of the source files and drafts of papers/presentations on ownCloud, and then copy just the final versions of files to....somewhere (I'm reticent to say the wiki). I believe the way that Documentation handles things is to put all drafts up into a common folder (ala ownCloud) and then final versions get published in various places (including on the website and on the wiki). Would it make sense for Marketing to push final versions of documents up to libreoffice.org/marketing/{whitepapers|presentations|(etc..)}/ ? That could be our way of saying "we consider these documents to be polished, final versions." Cheers, --R -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
