[Board] Changing from Dropbox for OSGeo Shared Folders?

[Jachym Cepicky]

what's wrong with FTP?

thanks for starting this Mike, appreciate

I have no problem with google drive, lack of the linux client is not
problem to me personally. what about one drive? just curious

J

Sun Feb 22 2015 at 16:17:03 odesílatel Michael Smith <
michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com> napsal:

> Jeff,
>
> Its perfectly fine to add to the public board list, I was just including
> those folks directly involved but you're right to include the larger
> community.
>
> The cost for Dropbox Pro is $99/year for 1Tb. And OSGeo already has a
> Dropbox Pro account. The problem is that this does not help anyone the
> dropbox folder is shared with. Each individual still has the amount used
> up. So if the OSGeo folder gets to 50Gb (for example), each person it is
> shared with gets 50Gb used up, whether it comes from a dropbox pro account
> or not. This is the same with Cubby. Copy.com divide the amount amongst
> all the various users (eg if 5 users, each gets charged 10Gb) and for
> Google Drive, it would all come from the owner of the shared folder and
> none from the members shared with. That¹s why I concluded that Google
> Drive seems the best for our situation where we have to have one paid
> account (OSGeo) with high storage and everyone that has access (whether
> synced to local drive or not) has no allocation changed to them.
>
> Mike
>
> ----
> Michael Smith
> OSGeo Foundation Treasurer
> treasurer at osgeo.org
>
>
>
>
> On 2/22/15, 10:09 AM, "Jeff McKenna" <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi Mike,
> >
> >This is a great conversation for the public Board list (why would it be
> >private?).  The decision we make here will affect future Board members,
> >so I prefer to have this talk publicly.
> >
> >I am one of those with limited Dropbox space.
> >
> >Thanks for doing this research.
> >
> >I don't see a cost in your message for Dropbox Pro.
> >
> >My opinion is that we should keep this simple, use something that
> >everyone has access to easily (supported on major platforms), and use
> >something that is common/popular.
> >
> >So my strong vote is Dropbox Pro (whatever the cost may be).  Each Board
> >member would get the costs covered for the length of their term on the
> >Board.   When we donate our free time to OSGeo, for Board activities, we
> >shouldn't be forced to use tools that are unfamiliar and may take more
> >time to use/understand.
> >
> >-jeff
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On 2015-02-22 10:57 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
> >> All,
> >>
> >> We've had some suggestions to change from Dropbox for the OSGeo shared
> >> folders (finance and intl) as the shared folders owned by OSGeo take up
> >> space on the local account of the person that this is shared to and that
> >> this is a problem for some of the folks. We have some suggestions of
> >> alternatives. I'd like to get us discussing this,
> >> pros/cons/gotchas/incompatibilites so that we can change (or not) in an
> >> informed fashion. Some of the proposed alternatives are
> >>
> >>  1. Dropbox Pro
> >>  2. Cubby
> >>  3. Google Drive
> >>  4. Copy.com
> >>
> >> I've already upgrading the OSGeo Account to Dropbox Pro thinking that
> >> the now the shared space would count just against the Pro account.
> >> Evidently this is incorrect. So to not impact others, we'd have to
> >> upgrade all users to a Pro account. From my reading of the Cubby
> >> website, it appears things are the same with Cubby.
> >>
> >> Google Drive indicates that Files that others have shared with you don't
> >> count against your limit. So this appears to be an attractive
> >> alternative. A 100Gb storage plan for OSGeo is only $1.99 a month. No
> >> Linux client however. Is this a deal breaker? The default free account
> >> is 15Gb.
> >>
> >> Copy.com has Fair Storage. If 5Gb is shared with 5 people, then only 1Gb
> >> is changed against each. (their forums have a large amount of spam
> >> posting though). A Linux client is available. Default free is 15Gb also.
> >>
> >> Overall, it would seem like Google Drive would be the best alternative
> >> as none of the OSGeo space would count against all the people it is
> >> shared with. But it would be a change from how it is setup now with
> >> Dropbox. And there is no Linux client.
> >>
> >> Opinions?
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
>
>
>
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