[sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] A Central Location for Omni Docs

[Jenny Ryan]

I started setting up an OwnCloud server the other week but got distracted. Who's down to take this on?

Rayc found some nice SATA drives yesterday, which we can add to the sudo server.

On 01/15/2015 12:46 PM, Eske Silver wrote:
> Yea, that's one reason why owncloud would be good.
> Or simply a docs partition on the digital media library.
> Marc and I have recently discussed setting one up (ebooks, video, software,
> etc) - it seems logical to have *all* of Omni's digital files in one place.
>
> ~ Korl
>
> 500px.com/eske
> 510.689.4484
> On Jan 15, 2015 12:42 PM, <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:
>
> >  would be good to have a directory on a server in the building that we
> > can just upload docs to and browse via ftp - should be easy to set up but
> > wouldn't have that many features.  the only real feature i think would be
> > important is really a non-feature - not being able to modify docs that are
> > uploaded already, without some sort of admin login.
> >
> > marc and other meshninoms - is there a server running that has extra space
> > for this?
> >
> > On 2015-01-15 12:25, Eske Silver wrote:
> >
> > I'm the best temp in Chiswick ;)
> >
> > ~ Korl
> >
> > 500px.com/eske
> > 510.689.4484
> > On Jan 15, 2015 12:24 PM, "Amgo Go" <littlebitagive at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > hallelujah thank you korl!
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Eske Silver <eske.silver at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Ahah! That must be incredibly frustrating, with all the info everyones
> >> brain rams through each week.
> >>
> >> I'll get on this today, if no one else has time ;)
> >> Do you want to pm me with links to all the clouds, and info on
> >> permissioning, so I know what I'm looking for? (I.e. size, file types,
> >> security options, sharing, etc).
> >>
> >> File organizing is my jam!
> >>
> >> ~ Korl
> >>
> >> 500px.com/eske
> >> 510.689.4484
> >>  On Jan 15, 2015 11:30 AM, "niki" <niki.shelley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> We have not! :)
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Eske Silver <eske.silver at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Dunno if you guys are still working on this, but I just found it
> >>>> burried in my inbox, and have been researching clouds all week. There a
> >>>> number of cloud services specifically for docs, which also have security
> >>>> and ease-of-use in mind.
> >>>> Let me know if you found a solution to this already, or not!
> >>>>
> >>>> ~ Korl
> >>>>
> >>>> 500px.com/eske
> >>>> 510.689.4484
> >>>>  On Dec 26, 2014 2:09 PM, "Amgo Go" <littlebitagive at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>  Hallelujah thanks niki for starting this!
> >>>>> Yep let's sit down in Jan and get organzized!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas at gmail.com>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I was just looking into setting up OwnCloud for this very purpose!
> >>>>>> I'm off to mushroom - hunt in the forest today but I'd like to follow up on
> >>>>>> this thread tomorrow <3
> >>>>>>  On Dec 26, 2014 1:06 AM, "niki" <niki.shelley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>  Hey all!
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I started going through the myriad drive folders that various
> >>>>>>> documents are stored in to see if I could do some organizing.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I am wondering if we can designate a central location for everything
> >>>>>>> that is shareable.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Certainly, there are some things that are more sensitive than others
> >>>>>>> but it would be helpful to be able to point people to one place rather than
> >>>>>>> to search through emails to find stuff. Perhaps we can designate different
> >>>>>>> permissions for certain info (ie: financial stuffs)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> It's starting to get difficult for me to find the most recent
> >>>>>>> versions of things and I am sometimes not sure if I'm using the same docs
> >>>>>>> as everyone else (For instance, is everyone using the same sheet when
> >>>>>>> recording / tracking rentals? I have several versions!)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I don't care who the owner of this folder is or where it lives,
> >>>>>>> personally. I just think that having everyone create and store shared docs
> >>>>>>> on their own personal drives rather than in some central location creates
> >>>>>>> serious confusion.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> (I know that we used to have a central drive folder back in the day
> >>>>>>> and at some point, a bunch of folders were moved / deleted and this caused
> >>>>>>> some concern - maybe we keep an alias somewhere that gets backed up semi
> >>>>>>> regularly?)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Do people have thoughts on this? Preferences for how / where things
> >>>>>>> should be stored?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I am more than willing to take on the task of organizing everything,
> >>>>>>> I just want us all to be on the same page re: where that should be.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> xo
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> N
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
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