<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'd love to get an answer to this, too.<div><br></div><div>There seems to be a class of applications of this type that would seem to be fairly small programming projects too large to take on myself, and yet not large enough to have attracted interest in making a project somewhere on Source Forge.</div><div><br></div><div>The mega-expansion of a thing like this is Oracle Collaboration Suite, which has all sorts of Neat Things in addition, but has significant costs for acquisition and maintenance. That's not a serious suggestion, but it's a highlight of the fact that this seems like a simple app that "someone should have thought up" as a FOSS project.</div><div><br></div><div>You can, to some extent, use DAV and Subversion to do this, but I suspect that's not really a good fit either. I've been looking myself, and just haven't seen anything that just does this limited task. I agree that using getdropbox is an issue because I don't want to trust anyone outside my control - but it'd sure be nice if the code was there to use...</div><div><br></div><div>_KMP</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 28 Jan 2009, at 2253 , Edward Ned Harvey wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hey all,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I recently tried out getdropbox, and I really like it – for syncing files across different computers, and for generating http:// links I can use to share my files with others.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I feel restricted due to limited disk space, and privacy concerns. When I can, I like to control my own data. I trust myself more than I trust unknown people.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Does anybody know of anything like getdropbox, which you can install on your own server and maintain yourself?<o:p></o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>bblisa mailing list<br><a href="mailto:bblisa@bblisa.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">bblisa@bblisa.org</a><br><a href="http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Courier">--</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Courier">K. M. Peterson <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>voice:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>+1 617 731 6177</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Courier">Boston, Massachusetts, USA <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>fax:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>+1 413 638 6486</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Courier" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Courier">Email: <<a href="mailto:KMP@KMPeterson.COM">mailto:KMP@KMPeterson.COM</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Web: <<a href="http://www.KMPeterson.COM">http://www.KMPeterson.COM</a>></font></p> </div> </div><br></body></html>