An ownCloud installation is available to the community of the digital garden on https://nuage.potager.org/.

ownCloud is a free software which allows you to store files and other data on an online server. ownCloud can replace proprietary services (such as Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, or Google Calendar) to keep a decentralized Internet and to escape mass surveillance.

With ownCloud you can:

• Share files with other people, whether they have an ownCloud account or not.
• Access your files from different devices (computer, smartphone, etc.).
• Work collaboratively and in real time on texts (in ODT format).
• Share calendars, contacts, and task lists.

For more info, visit the official ownCloud website.

Who can use this service?

People who have a mailbox on our server can use their email address and password to connect to ownCloud.

We can also create other accounts on demand.

If you want to use this service collectively, for example to store online the working documents of a group, you have several options:

• If all the members of the group have a mailbox on our server, one of you can share a folder with the others.
• If not all the members of the group have a mailbox on our server, you can ask us to create for you either:
  • A collective account with a shared password.
  • Individual accounts for those people.

You can also share files with accounts on other ownCloud installations than the one on our server.

Connecting ownCloud with your computer or your telephone

Using ownCloud you can access your files across several devices. It is possible to integrate your ownCloud storage directly in your desktop environment or your smartphone, without going through the web interface.

• For Windows, Mac OS X, Android et iOS, refer to the official ownCloud installation guides.

• For Debian or Ubuntu you can either:

  • Install the owncloud-client package, which creates an ownCloud folder in your home folder which will be automatically synchronized with your data online.

    • With this technique, a copy of your files is saved on your disk and is available even if you are offline.

  • Configure GNOME Online Accounts to access your ownCloud files from the file manager.

    • With this technique you can mount and unmount your ownCloud folder whenever you need it, without keeping a complete copy of you files on your disk.

    You can make those connections go through Tor by configuring Tor as a proxy in the network configuration of your operating system.

Écrire des textes à plusieurs avec ownCloud ou Etherpad ?

Pour l'édition de texte à plusieurs et en temps réel, nous hébergeons à la fois une installation d'Etherpad sur https://pad.potager.org/ et de ownCloud sur https://nuage.potager.org/. Comment choisir entre les deux?

• Format:
  • ownCloud permet de travailler sur des documents de type ODT (LibreOffice).
  • Etherpad ne permet de travailler que sur des fichiers textes sans formatage.
• Gestion des groupes:
  • Etherpad vous permet de créer et d'administrer vous-même des groupes privés sans notre intervention.
  • Avec ownCloud, si certaines personnes de votre groupe n'ont pas de boîte mail sur le potager, il faudra passer par nous pour les rajouter ou les enlever du groupe.
• Temporalité:
  • Avec ownCloud, les textes restent en ligne indéfiniment.
  • Avec Etherpad, hormis pour les groupes privés, les textes sont supprimés automatiquement après 30 jours d'inactivité.
• Anonymat:
  • Avec ownCloud, les documents sont attribués à un compte en particulier.
  • Avec Etherpad, il est possible d'utiliser des outils pour être anonyme, comme Tor Browser ou Tails.

See also our help page on Etherpad.

Share files with ownCloud or Coquelicot?

For file sharing, we propose both an installation of Coquelicot on https://dl.poivron.org/ and ownCloud on https://nuage.potager.org/. How to choose between the two?

• Temporality:
  • With Coquelicot, you can upload a file for 30 days maximum.
  • With ownCloud, a file is online until its proprietary removes it.
• Maximum file size:
  • With ownCloud, a file is 512 MiB maximum.
  • With Coquelicot, a file is 800 MiB maximum.
• Anonymity:
  • With ownCloud, texts are directly related to an account.
  • With Coquelicot, it is possible to use anonymity tools such as Tor Browser or Tails.
• Encyption:
  • With Coquelicot, a file is entirely encrypted on our disks.
  • With ownCloud, the content of a file is encrypted using the password of the user but its title as well as the folder structure is visible by us administrators.