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Januar 2010
 Frank Karlitschek

KDE Developer

openDesktop.org
KDE-Look.org
KDE-Apps.org

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 vs.

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 KDE SC 4.4 rocks!

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 Challenges of the next
5 years

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 Move from
Desktop Apps to
Cloud Apps

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 Examples:
• Pandora / last.fm
• Google Docs
• GMail/Hotmail/Messaging
• Flickr / Picasa
• even Instant Messaging.

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 Cloud Computing

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 Chrome OS

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 Chrome OS

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 Chrome OS
• Offline Support
• Native Code Support
• Notifications
• WebGL
• “Security”.

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 Google doesn´t think that native destkop app are
less important.

Google think they are irrelevant in the next

years.

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 Why ?

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 Survey
advantages

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 The advantages
the biggest advantage (imho) of cloud
computing for users would be ubiqious No need to install
presense of applications and data.
software
You don't need to You can delegate upgrades/backups to
worry about losing the service provider
your work if your
machine crashes
data can be accessed from everywhere (PC,
laptop, girlfriend latpop, www)

easy interaction
with other users

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 So a shiny happy new
world is comming ?

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 Is this trend good from a free
software perspective ?

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 Where is the place for classic
Desktop applications like

KDE SC in 10 years ?

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 Survey
disadvantages

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 The disadvantages
hosting is
the security of your highly non-
personal data. Where trivial
are your files stores?
By whom? In which
legislation. user data might be not
encrypted

dependency on 3rd party infrastructure

(hot spots, internet, lan)

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 Google
Voice Picasa
Maps Earth
Fibre Power Plants
Groups Netbooks
Desktop OS Docs
Wave
Health Google Talk
Search
Browser Blogger
Latitude
File Storage
Orkut Biggest Advertiser
DNS
Mail
Mobile Devices
Android
Google Apps
Calendar
YouTube iGoogle
Reader

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 too much ?

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 What can we do
about it?

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 Is it possible to combine
the best of both worlds?

• rich desktop with rich applications instead of web apps

• social
• easy deployable
• data under my control but accessable from every device.

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 What do we have to do?

1. Social
2. Deployment / Access to applications
3. Access and sharing of data

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 1. Social

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 Social Desktop
Bringing Social Features to Desktop Applications

• finding other people

• friends
• groups
• messaging
• newsfeed
• knowledge sharing
• events.

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 Proof of Concept in KDE SC 4.3

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 Great progress in KDE SC 4.4

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 attica
• handles the protocoll
• authentification
• error handling
• different data providers
• transparent access for all applications
• Qt only with optional KDE plugin.

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 Custom Attributes
• store key value pair at users
• namespaced
• search users
• use-case parley, games.

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 Future (4.5)
• Integration with applications very easy now
• Social Desktop Sprint in the next 2 month
• maemo.org, forum.kde.org data providers
• hopefully more providers in the future.

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 Open-Collaboration-Services
• free specification
• still to difficult to implement.

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 Libraries
• reference server implementation
• released today
• License AGPL
• reference Qt implementation (attica)
• reference PHP client implementation.

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 Great Social Features

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 2. Deployable / Access to
applications

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 Get Hot New Stuff
• Access applications/scripts from everywhere
• ghns 1 - KDE 3.x
• ghns 2 - KDE 4.x
• ghns 3 - KDE 4.4

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 • full search
• screenshots
• descriptions
• updates
• voting
• become fan

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 Get Hot New Stuff
• In App Downloads
• App Installation
• Integration with openSUSE Buildservice
• Integration with Qt Creator
• Integration with identi.ca/Twitter/Facebook
• Security is important partly unsolved
• Web Links
• Payment Integration for mp3s or eBooks
• Server Side Implementation Released
• Everybody is welcome to integrate existing Repos.

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 Hopefully this makes access to apps
very easy in the future.

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 3. Access and sharing of data

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 Current storage
solutions suck !

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 My requirements:

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 1. all data under my control.

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 2. access from everywhere
and every device
• home desktop
• work desktop not running KDE
• laptop
• netbook
• internet cafe
• smartphone

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 3. online / offline

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 4. auto backup

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 5. versioning

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 6. encryption

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 7. easy sharing

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 8. easy extend storage

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 Example:

I´m working on my thesis

Always accessible from everywhere
No more copy around usb devices
Completely secure
All changes are versioned and backuped.

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 Example:

my music accessible from everywhere

even if the collection is to big to fit on a netbook
share a part of the music with a friend.

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 Example:

A KDE developer sprint needs a shared storage to

exchange documents

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 Example:
Send my parents a read only link to my holiday pictures
folder

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 2010 and still
difficult

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 I think we need a
solution for this

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 License: AGPL

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 Package you can install on:
• your own root server
• you home PC (and use dyndns or something)
• on your company server
• rent from a company if somebody provides the service.

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 Access
• access the files via a browser
• full interface for pc and smartphones
• mount via webDAV
• works on Mac, Windows, Linux (fuse, kio)
• syncing via a small client side application.

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 Backup

• Automatically copy to a second device on save

• harddisc
• second server.

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 Versioning

• subversion
• git
• hardlinks

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 Encryption

• GPG
• SSL

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 Sharing

• send an email with a webdav link and a ID

• read/write support
• expire
• only one file or directory.

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 Notification

• Somebody shares something with you

• Somebody edited/created/deleted something
• Storage full.

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 Timeline
version 1.0
• webinterface
• webdav mount
• next 2 month
version 2.0
• versioning
• backup
• encryption
• next 6 month
version 3.0
• sharing
• syncing
• end of 2010

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 Let´s make it happen!
• gitourious: http://gitorious.org/owncloud
• wiki: http://ownCloud.org

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 Summary

KDE has superior Desktop technology and

applications.
If we combine this with ideas from cloud computing
we have a fast, secure, and powerful desktop
with great social, and data/app sharing
features we will rock!

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 Questions ?

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 Thank you
Frank Karlitschek
karlitschek@kde.org
blog.karlitschek.de
twitter.com/fkarlitschek

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