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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