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Comment on Degooglifying (Part IV): Calendar by Blaise Alleyne

Blaise Alleyne — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:39:43 +0000

I checked out your posts on ownCloud, which inspired to me to update the test instance I’d installed a few years back, now running 5.0. I don’t really see a use for it in general myself, and SOGo’s web UI has a few additional features (e.g. you can subscribe to remote calendars in SOGo, didn’t see a way to do that in ownCloud), but my dad is a Dropbox user and I’ve set him up with an ownCloud account… if he starts using it for other things, it may be a logical place for him to have his calendar.

Re: CalDAV-Sync, that was on my radar, but I didn’t want to recommend any proprietary solutions — great to know there’s at least an intention to open source. My wife’s Android device doesn’t even have the Play store active, she’s just using F-Droid, and I’d hope to do the same. But, I think for my parents, they might end up using CalDAV-Sync, regardless of it’s open source status, because I don’t think they’d be comfortable with aCal. Still, it’d allow them to migrate from Google Calendar to ownCloud or SOGo — one step at a time…

Thanks for letting me know about your setup!

Comment on Degooglifying (Part IV): Calendar by maiki

maiki — Sun, 19 May 2013 03:15:15 +0000

You and I had the same goal, which is little surprise considering how near out children were born to each other.

I end up using ownCloud (I write about it a lot, actually: http://interi.org/tags/owncloud/), and the SOGo Connector in Thunderbird for most of my calendaring needs. For Android I buckled and use CalDAV-Sync. It is promised to be open source (http://dmfs.org/wiki/index.php?title=Open_source_status), but that is weak. That aside, it gets the job done, and I can add an event in T-bird, ownCloud or CalDAV-Sync and it gets to the other instances of my calendar.

Thanks for doing the follow-up, and for pinging me. I hope we get better stacks in place, it would be great if there was a default calendar app in FirefoxOS that supported CalDAV! ^_^

Comment on Degooglifying (Part II): Feed Reader by w

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:12:49 +0000

Newsblur is MIT/Expat and it’s really well done

Comment on Canonical’s schizophrenia about FOSS by On Revoking Ubuntu’s Root Privileges | Unity Behind Diversity | Blaise Alleyne

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:54:08 +0000

[...] restricted drivers to Launchpad to non-free documentation licences, there have always been concerns about Canonical’s commitment to free software. By 2010, the [...]

Comment on SOLUTION: Extract .exe archive with 7z in Ubunu 9.04, fix “Unsupported Method” error by Visitor

Visitor — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:34:13 +0000

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Comment on SOLUTION: Extract .exe archive with 7z in Ubunu 9.04, fix “Unsupported Method” error by gul

gul — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:45:33 +0000

thanx mate .

Comment on Degooglifying (Part I): Email by Carlos Solís

Carlos Solís — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:14:43 +0000

What I did was the following:

- Using an e-mail program (like Thunderbird) I logged into GMail.
- I made a local folder in Thunderbird to store old GMail e-mails in my computer.
- Then I transferred all the old mail from GMail to that folder in my computer.
- Then I deleted the GMail account in Thunderbird, making sure that the old e-mails are in my local folder.
- Then I logged into Riseup Mail. I could have exported my mail back into Riseup, but it offers little space by default (it’s a NGO with little funding after all), so I kept it in my computer. Also, whenever Riseup was about to run out of space, I transferred old mails back into the aforementioned folder.

Hopefully this guide works for you too!

Comment on Degooglifying (Part I): Email by niall dooley

niall dooley — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:00:07 +0000

Hey all,

I am moving from gmail to riseup,
and would like to move all my inbox content(from the past 9 years or so)
to riseup. Is this possible? Can they store that?
and if so how is it done?

I am not really tech savvy enough in this regard,
so I don’t know anything about servers or these things.
Any advide or reccomendations would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Niall.

Comment on WIND Mobile Launches Reasonable Data Plans In Canada by rina

rina — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:00:16 +0000

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Comment on WIND Mobile Launches Reasonable Data Plans In Canada by rina

rina — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:58:13 +0000

i delt with FIDO ROGERS AND BELL and i can say i will spear that i will never hopefully need to dfeal with thlos companies again, i found them to be big rip offs, confusiion is really part of there business tactics to make money, they ad in so many confusing charges and give you the intormations that deals with paying them. i find them corrupt and should be investigated and charged if they were in europe with european standards they would be in charged for frudulence. Wind so far seems like an ethical company for a comany that is. i have to say so far anyway i have not had any serious problems with them and the egyption customer service people are so polite i can t say much for the canadian workds or canadian customers services workes. but the egyptions working there are too nice.