[Discuss] Docker and Own^h^h^h Nextcloud

[richb at pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun)]

I got a private message alerting me to the OSS developers moving off Owncloud
to perform their work on a forked project Nextcloud, so that's what I'm
exploring now. It kinda-sorta replaces the idea of iCloud, and a lot of the
google sync features, neither of which I've ever brought myself to trust. This
tool will finally allow me to keep most of my iPhone's content synced to my
personal servers.

It looks like I've got calendar and contacts sync working, though there aren't
really good tools for import/export of existing content (e.g. my 400+ contacts
in the phone need to be manually imported to the Nextcloud). And the iPhone's
settings screens are notoriously awful to figure out: the software maintains
completely separate internal tables for multiple contact lists and multiple
calendars, so you have to do some reading to figure out how to set the
defaults to Nextcloud instead of local.

Even with all that, though, this looks like something I should've pursued back
in 2013 when I first heard the software title Owncloud. If you've got trust
issues and "don't love the Cloud", read about it!

-rich