Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google

In software development term, this is probably an over engineering. Spend all the effort to setup your own data cloud before it becomes a fact that you really need it, that is, Google decides to change their cloud service so that it's no longer usable to you. Of course you could argue that what if one day Google simply disable the data exporting feature without any notice, in that case you would have no time to migrate. I think that risk is low enough for me to live with.

Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google

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Post by mhaymo » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 11:34 AM UTC

kailuowang wrote: post #4

In software development term, this is probably an over engineering. Spend all the effort to setup your own data cloud before it becomes a fact that you really need it, that is, Google decides to change their cloud service so that it's no longer usable to you. Of course you could argue that what if one day Google simply disable the data exporting feature without any notice, in that case you would have no time to migra…

Google's service is already problematic in that it compromises my privacy and the privacy of my contacts. I'd rather not share my schedule with Google, and I feel uncomfortable putting additional information in my contacts knowing that it will be synced to them. I've certainly never been given permission by my friends to share their home address with Google or any other company.

Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google

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Post by polymatter » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 11:36 AM UTC

BerislavLopac wrote: post #2

Remember Kiko?

Were they a startup that was killed the moment Google calendar started?

Re: Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google

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Post by antihero » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 11:39 AM UTC

Is there something like ownCloud that uses Python/PostgreSQL? I don't really want to pollute my server with MySQL/PHP.

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Post by mfer » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 11:44 AM UTC

Loosing contacts can happen. Just this past week my father-in-laws contact info disappeared from Google contacts. This isn't the first time this has happened to me either.

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Post by 616c » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 11:48 AM UTC

antihero wrote: post #7

Is there something like ownCloud that uses Python/PostgreSQL? I don't really want to pollute my server with MySQL/PHP.

Have not had time to get it running on a VPS (the main reason I bought it), but it is worth a shot. Not veteran, but looks very cool.

http://radicale.org/

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Post by luanfernandes » Tue, Mar 26, 2013, 11:53 AM UTC

What can we do for translated versions? I'm not a dev but my father uses google calendar a lot because it's easy and intuitive but he knows nothing about english...