ownCloud made its announcement on 11 October 2011, and here we reproduce it in Spanish:
You want to be flexible and access your data from anywhere: from your laptop, from your smartphone, from your friend’s house, from university or the office and while you travel – and all without the need to email it to yourself or carry a USB stick around. Proprietary services like Google Apps, iCloud and Dropbox offer solutions to cover this need – but all of them keep your data on their servers and in countries where you have no control over what happens to your data once it is there or who accesses it.
While we were focused on freeing the PC, we found that the free software community needs to know what is happening on the web. Our main value – user freedom – is not achieved when they use a free PC to access Facebook. However, projects like Diaspora, MediaGoblin and many others share our goals of a more decentralised, more adaptable web that is at the same time usable by everyone.
On the other hand, native applications still offer a better experience thanks to their shorter load times and their integration with the operating system. Our goal is to offer the best of both worlds with a web interface and a connection to desktop applications
Two years have passed since our initial plans and our last stable version was released half a year ago. Since then we have worked like crazy to make our vision less cloudy. We had our first hackfest in April and met again at the Desktop Summit in August, where we discussed, planned and hacked. As a result of those meetings, the number of contributors and the quality of the software increased rapidly.
We are pleased to announce the release of ownCloud 2.
All your files
Access your files on the web or integrate them with your desktop through file managers like Dolphin, Nautilus, Finder and Explorer. There are even third-party WebDav applications for Android and iOS, so you can access your files from your phone.
Sharing
We all like to share, so we have made sure that you can do it easily. You can share your files with other users of your ownCloud instance, or through a public link that you can send to whoever you want.
Music streaming
Use the integrated music player to listen to the music directly from your browser. ownCloud also has an Ampache server to stream music to players on your desktop such as Tomahawk or Amarok.
Calendar and Contacts
Manage calendars and contacts directly from the web. You can connect your devices with applications like Thunderbird, Kontact and Evolution through protocols like CardDAV and CalDAV.
Remote storage for other web applications
We are not the only project committed to having open web applications and to users having control of their personal data. The Unhosted project defines a protocol that separates application servers from storage providers. You can use your own ownCloud as a storage provider that syncs with other web applications using the remoteStorage protocol. You can try the sample applications at unhosted.org/demo.
All of this can be achieved simply by putting ownCloud on your web server (or by asking a friend to give you an account). The requirement is to have PHP and a database (SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL). You can find detailed instructions at ownCloud.org/install.
You can even use your own computer and make it available on the internet with PageKite.
ownCloud is a reality thanks to the contributions of many people:
Frank Karlitschek, Robin Appelman, Jan-Christoph Borchardt, Jakob Sack, Michael Gapczynski, Bart Visscher, Georg Ehrke, Marvin Thomas Rabe, Florian Jacob, Arthur Schiwon, Aaron Reichman, Bartek Przybylski, Michael Grosser, Tom Needham, Florian Pritz, Côme Bernigaud, Michiel de Jong and many more.
Looking ahead
Version 3 is expected for early 2012 – and we need your help. Developers are more than welcome to write native desktop applications, as well as mobile applications, as well as to extend the functionality through the web. You can help with the translations on Transifex, get the code from Gitorious or jump in and help with whatever you feel like.
Find out more at ownCloud.org or try it at demo.ownCloud.org.
If you need help, join the community on Shapado or talk to us directly.
You can also follow our updates on Diaspora, Identi.ca or Twitter.