Re: Google App Engine

["Kevin Kubasik" <kevin kubasik net>]

Hey, so I was wondering what people thought about this, even if we
ended up needing to charge people for storage plans, it would be a
wicked awesome addition to conduit.

What are peoples thoughts?

Cheers,
Kevin Kubasik
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Kevin Kubasik <kevin kubasik net> wrote:
> Awesome! I actually wrote up a GSOC proposal to basically do the same
>  thing against the google spreadsheets API, obviously appengine
>  presents a more... complete solution. I've been playing around with
>  the SDK, its pretty straightforward, and should work well. The obvious
>  concern with any 'point source' is making sure we could continue to
>  offer it, even as conduit grows. Now Google is cool, and probably
>  would be willing to make an arraignment if we had a real tangible use
>  for it. I see it as a great means of storing and syncing 2 main 'sets'
>  of data
>  1) Conduits settings and mapping db itself. read: I sit down at my new
>  laptop, enter one password, and have everything synced down to you
>  from all your different web accounts etc.
>  2) Cool desktop metadata that has no real home on the web (yet ;) ).
>  Things like playlists, chat logs, settings, ratings, tags, tasks, or
>  even browser history (some of these things do have specialized
>  services offered, but there's also a reason that they haven't caught
>  on)
>
>  Most importantly, by having the potential for an independent and
>  available mapping source, we could have intelligent N-Way syncs
>  between different machines, while services like Box.net do allow for
>  this to an extent, this is where an intelligent sync service would
>  really rock.
>
>
>  My $0.02, Lemme know if I'm on a whole different world ;)
>
>  Kevin Kubasik
>
> 2008/4/21 Brent Gueth <creeva gmail com>:
>
>
> > Well I got into the Google App Engine beta - since I'm not a programmer I'm
>  > the type of guy that makes it longer for real programmers to get in.  That
>  > being said I can create a new project and invite third party developers to
>  > work with it - hint hint.
>  >
>  > It seems I can only create three projects - one I am keeping for my want to
>  > play with python implmentation.   I was going to donate the other two (until
>  > it's officially open for all) to the conduit porject - one beta testing and
>  > one we can use for a live plugin.   What do you guys think?
>  >
>  > If we can use the App Engine as the definitive online back up source and
>  > cross reference for syncing, then I see conduit becoming the centralized
>  > point that makes conduit the true conduit to allowing gnome to be the cloud
>  > computing platform.
>  >
>  >
>  > To keep everyone from jumping on the bandwagon, I'll leave decision to John
>  > on how to proceed on this (aka I don't know if there is a limit to the
>  > number of developers I can invite on a project so I want to make sure this
>  > is coordinated to people with the appropriate skills first)
>  >
>  > Brent
>  >
>
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