Vreme: 11/07/2011 06:34 AM, Trey Dockendorf piše:
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Daniel Birddbird@sgul.ac.uk wrote:
On 06/11/2011 00:49, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
Look into google 'apps' (which is really corporatized google
documents). you edit your documents via your web browser, everything is hosted in googles cloud so its accessible everywhere. It supports written 'word' style documents, spreadsheets, presentations (powerpoint like) and a few other types.
yes, it costs money per person per year (up to 25 users are free), but I'd have to assume there's an educational discount.
Google apps for Education is free* http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/
*in the UK at least; and "free" depends on your POV.
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My College at Texas A&M University is also looking for such capability. The issue we ran into is that Texas laws restrict where data can be stored for use by state funded institutions. Ensuring data stays in Texas is nearly impossible with "cloud" services, but apparently Google is willing to make that happen. They have told my University that they will offer their services for free. I would definitely look into it. I don't know the specifics of how it's implemented, but I doubt they would require gmail accounts, because we are looking to do it for our faculty/staff and we already discourage use of Google services for work related material. They will likely integrate it into whatever you already use.
Unfortunately there aren't a lot of great open source solutions out there for "cloud storage" that can compete with Google or others. Besides what's already been mentioned there is Sparkleshare, http://sparkleshare.org/ . I use it personally on Linux and OS X with ease, but the Windows portion is still in beta. Another my organization attempted was iFolder, http://www.kablink.org/ifolder. One I haven't worked with yet, but have seen is http://owncloud.org/.
Using Google Docs/Cloud or any external storage system has security issues, since you are not owner of your own files. If some security agency decides to browse your files, for any reason, because they feal like it, it is questionable if Google would stop them.
And there are Vendor Lock-in issues as well.
Using WebDav is much better. It is like direct access FTP server. And you can host it on your own server, having no access or ownership issues.
One solution is for users to setup system wide WebDav access (so any app can access them), or to use for example
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/webdav-integration
or
http://code.google.com/p/ooo2gd/
LibreOffice/OpenOffice add-ons for easy access to documents from those/that Office bundle,
or even simly using this guide:
http://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Opening_a_Document_Using_WebDAV_over_HTTP...
(less comfortable).
WebDav is like FTP just a storage location, there is no vendor lock-in in documents you must use in order to access your data.