Re: GNOME files disabled

[Claus Schwarm <c schwarm gmx net>]

Hi, 

On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:31:21 +0200
Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se> wrote:

> From 
> http://web.archive.org/web/20071212224222/www.gnomefiles.org/contact.php:
> "The developer & owner of Gnomefiles' PHP source code is Eugenia
> Loli. OSNews LLC (the company behind GnomeFiles) is using the source
> code under a special licensing condition (at no cost). This
> repository engine can be easily modified to store documents, music or
> any other item that can be categorized. If you are interested in
> purchasing or licensing the source code, email Eugenia directly at..."
>
> Does this mean we can't pick up the code and host it ourselves?

Seems so.

> It would be cool to get at least the data. The site filled a
> important gap. If we can't host it ourselves, I'm interesting in
> start designing something new if someone is willing to help with the
> code.

I've once helped write something similar, called GnomeApps. [1] Its
code is still available but unmaintained. That makes is unsuitable to
use. Also, the data is outdated.

Finding developers wasn't much of a problem back then. Today, it would
be even easier, with frameworks such as Django [1].

However, you would need someone (or a team) to manage the whole thing,
provided you get a database backup. That could be the tricky part.


Cheers,
Claus

[1] http://gnome-apps.berlios.de/
[2] http://www.djangoproject.com/