Re: [libreoffice-website] Owncloud permissions

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Charles-H. Schulz
<charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> Sigh.
>
> This is a big fail. When we decided to go for owncloud, the basic idea was to have something that 
> would let people download freely and publicly from it, yet requiring credentials for upload. 
> Silly me, I just found out you must login to even access the common folder on Owncloud.

I don't believe log-in creds are needed (see my previous email)

> The problem is almost no one is interested in getting credentials so no one is checking up what I 
> am uploading.

I think we just need to publish the correct URL.

> We were told that Owncloud would be perfect. It is not and is near useless. Really I don't need 
> owncloud to sync files between my two computers. Starting from now I will be uploading the specs 
> on my dropbox. It won't help with collaborative work but at least everyone will be able to 
> download documents.

I'd like to avoid us using dropbox as much as possible -- it's not a
shared space, it's not FOSS, and it's not something that we have much
control over. If there's something specific I can do to make it easier
for us to use ownCloud -- perhaps some step-by-step documentation?
Screencast? -- please let me know.

Thanks,
--R

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