<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>FTP doesn't really work the same way, there is no syncing to keep the files shared / in common. I think the web client access with any of these cloud storage services would provide the same benefit to someone who just wanted occasional access. </div><div><br></div><div>OneDrive from Microsoft was something I looked at also. It offers 15Gb for free similar to Cubby/Copy.com but it still has the shared space problem, eg having access to the OSGeo Shared folder will reduce/eliminate your personal space (depending on the size of the OSGeo folder(s)). Google Drive is (so far) the only one I've found that doesn't impose a shared space cost. Copy.com distributes it equally, which is better, but doesn't actually help as much when we would have a paid account for OSGeo.</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Jachym Cepicky <<a href="mailto:jachym.cepicky@gmail.com">jachym.cepicky@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Monday, February 23, 2015 at 5:27 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Michael Smith <<a href="mailto:michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com">michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com</a>>, Jorge Sanz <<a href="mailto:jsanz@osgeo.org">jsanz@osgeo.org</a>>, Daniel Morissette <<a href="mailto:dmorissette@mapgears.com">dmorissette@mapgears.com</a>>, Alan Strand <<a href="mailto:alan@notforprofitaccounting.net">alan@notforprofitaccounting.net</a>>, <<a href="mailto:president@osgeo.org">president@osgeo.org</a>>, Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> <<a href="mailto:treasurer@osgeo.org">treasurer@osgeo.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: Changing from Dropbox for OSGeo Shared Folders?<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">what's wrong with FTP? <br><br>thanks for starting this Mike, appreciate<div><br></div><div>I have no problem with google drive, lack of the linux client is not problem to me personally. what about one drive? just curious</div><div><span style="line-height:1.5;font-size:13.1999998092651px"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:1.5;font-size:13.1999998092651px">J </span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">Sun Feb 22 2015 at 16:17:03 odesÃlatel Michael Smith <<a href="mailto:michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com">michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com</a>> napsal:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Jeff,<br><br>
Its perfectly fine to add to the public board list, I was just including<br>
those folks directly involved but you're right to include the larger<br>
community.<br><br>
The cost for Dropbox Pro is $99/year for 1Tb. And OSGeo already has a<br>
Dropbox Pro account. The problem is that this does not help anyone the<br>
dropbox folder is shared with. Each individual still has the amount used<br>
up. So if the OSGeo folder gets to 50Gb (for example), each person it is<br>
shared with gets 50Gb used up, whether it comes from a dropbox pro account<br>
or not. This is the same with Cubby. Copy.com divide the amount amongst<br>
all the various users (eg if 5 users, each gets charged 10Gb) and for<br>
Google Drive, it would all come from the owner of the shared folder and<br>
none from the members shared with. That¹s why I concluded that Google<br>
Drive seems the best for our situation where we have to have one paid<br>
account (OSGeo) with high storage and everyone that has access (whether<br>
synced to local drive or not) has no allocation changed to them.<br><br>
Mike<br><br>
----<br>
Michael Smith<br>
OSGeo Foundation Treasurer<br><a href="mailto:treasurer@osgeo.org" target="_blank">treasurer@osgeo.org</a><br><br><br><br><br>
On 2/22/15, 10:09 AM, "Jeff McKenna" <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a><u></u>> wrote:<br><br>
>Hi Mike,<br>
><br>
>This is a great conversation for the public Board list (why would it be<br>
>private?). The decision we make here will affect future Board members,<br>
>so I prefer to have this talk publicly.<br>
><br>
>I am one of those with limited Dropbox space.<br>
><br>
>Thanks for doing this research.<br>
><br>
>I don't see a cost in your message for Dropbox Pro.<br>
><br>
>My opinion is that we should keep this simple, use something that<br>
>everyone has access to easily (supported on major platforms), and use<br>
>something that is common/popular.<br>
><br>
>So my strong vote is Dropbox Pro (whatever the cost may be). Each Board<br>
>member would get the costs covered for the length of their term on the<br>
>Board. When we donate our free time to OSGeo, for Board activities, we<br>
>shouldn't be forced to use tools that are unfamiliar and may take more<br>
>time to use/understand.<br>
><br>
>-jeff<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
>On 2015-02-22 10:57 AM, Michael Smith wrote:<br>
>> All,<br>
>><br>
>> We've had some suggestions to change from Dropbox for the OSGeo shared<br>
>> folders (finance and intl) as the shared folders owned by OSGeo take up<br>
>> space on the local account of the person that this is shared to and that<br>
>> this is a problem for some of the folks. We have some suggestions of<br>
>> alternatives. I'd like to get us discussing this,<br>
>> pros/cons/gotchas/<u></u>incompatibilites so that we can change (or not) in an<br>
>> informed fashion. Some of the proposed alternatives are<br>
>><br>
>> 1. Dropbox Pro<br>
>> 2. Cubby<br>
>> 3. Google Drive<br>
>> 4. Copy.com<br>
>><br>
>> I've already upgrading the OSGeo Account to Dropbox Pro thinking that<br>
>> the now the shared space would count just against the Pro account.<br>
>> Evidently this is incorrect. So to not impact others, we'd have to<br>
>> upgrade all users to a Pro account. From my reading of the Cubby<br>
>> website, it appears things are the same with Cubby.<br>
>><br>
>> Google Drive indicates that Files that others have shared with you don't<br>
>> count against your limit. So this appears to be an attractive<br>
>> alternative. A 100Gb storage plan for OSGeo is only $1.99 a month. No<br>
>> Linux client however. Is this a deal breaker? The default free account<br>
>> is 15Gb.<br>
>><br>
>> Copy.com has Fair Storage. If 5Gb is shared with 5 people, then only 1Gb<br>
>> is changed against each. (their forums have a large amount of spam<br>
>> posting though). A Linux client is available. Default free is 15Gb also.<br>
>><br>
>> Overall, it would seem like Google Drive would be the best alternative<br>
>> as none of the OSGeo space would count against all the people it is<br>
>> shared with. But it would be a change from how it is setup now with<br>
>> Dropbox. And there is no Linux client.<br>
>><br>
>> Opinions?<br>
>><br>
>> Mike<br>
>><br><br><br></blockquote></div></span></body></html>