Plugin for Discourse backups to Nextcloud?

[jancborchardt]

Hey @kajatiger & @Jen-V! I just stumbled upon your post about the Discourse plugin for backup to Google Drive on the RailsGirls blog, pretty cool! :)

I read that you made it modular so possibly any service could be used as backup location. It would be awesome if we can connect it to Nextcloud, which is basically an open source alternative to Dropbox and Google apps. Technically it simply uses the WebDAV standard for files and basic auth (or tokens) for authentication, and supporting that standard would also make it work for lots of other platforms. (cc @MorrisJobke and @ChristophWurst if there’s more technical stuff because I mainly do design ;)

I’m not sure if you’re super busy with the program or we could meet and chat about it as I’m in Berlin too. For example at one of the weekly OpenTechSchool Frontend Co-learning meetups at co.up. There’s also @gsambrotta there who coded on both Discourse and Nextcloud before. :)

[jenni]

hi @jancborchardt ! nice to meet you, and very glad to receive this surprise message with a challenging task :) we would really like to look into it and be in contact with you guys. We'll write soon, once we talk properly about the scope of our tasks for the summer and how to integrate this in our plan. Cheers!

[jancborchardt]

Great stuff! Since you are in Berlin, you are also very welcome at our Nextcloud conference end of August at the TU. :)

[kajatiger]

If we already start to build a discourse-sync-to-nextcloud plugin, would you be interested in us giving a little lightning talk at the conference?

[jancborchardt]

Oh wow, that's so cool! Of course, please do give a lightning talk about it at the conference! :) Let me know if there's any issues during the registration/submission process.

You're also very welcome in our IRC channel #nextcloud-dev :)

[jancborchardt]

(And even if it's not 100% done for the conf, a talk about your process is useful! And there will be lots of other contributors there too, including our RGSoC team @jonatoni and @xh3n1 who work on the Contacts app. :)

[jenni]

hi @jancborchardt :)
A little update about this subject:
we've talked about how the Nextcloud plugin will be built and are very excited about it, specially since we couldn't find any nextcloud gem (api wrapper) that we could use for it. This means, we must build it!
Our idea is to first build the gem and use it afterwards in our discourse-sync-to-nextcloud.

[jancborchardt]

@Jen-V oh nice, that’s thorough! Let me know how it goes :)