[Building Sakai] webdav & ipad

[Jez Cope]

Agreed, Dropbox.com with an SLA would be brilliant.

I vaguely remember hearing something about JISC putting out an 
invitation-to-tender for a project to develop a Dropbox.com-type service 
for higher education, but I might have been imagining it.

Fingers crossed...

Jez

Ed Garay wrote:
> Dropbox.com works very well to store, access and share files from iPads,
> and other iOS, Android and other smartphones and tablets.
>
> Too bad Dropbox.com is not interested in signing a service agreements
> with colleges and universities. I have been trying (without success) to
> convience Dropbox.com that there is a market for a commercial cloud
> services with us. It would be great if we could have our students and
> faculty save stuff up on the cloud, but with an SLA agreement signed off
> by our university legal counsel, just like we did with GoogleApps at uic.
>
> Someday, before I leave UIC, I guess...
> Greetings from Chicago.
> --- Ed Garay
>
> At Monday 8/15/2011 10:21 AM, Matthew Jones wrote:
>> Agreed, there are a number of apps for both the android and iphone for
>> webdav. However there is nothing build into the OS for either
>> platform, and full functionality of all of the apps I've seen (Webdav
>> Navigator, GoodReader) require a purchase ($3-$5).
>>
>> I seemed to be able to get Webdav Navigator (the free version) to
>> connect to a Sakai 2.7.1, but it wasn't able to upload or see any
>> files. I don't know if this was a problem with the free version or
>> not. All the free version can do is upload images.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Sean DeMonner <demonner at umich.edu
>> <mailto:demonner at umich.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>     There are a number of WebDAV client apps for the iPad. I've used
>>     GoodReader successfully; you set up up the connection in the
>>     Connect to Servers panel:
>>
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Jez Cope <http://people.bath.ac.uk/jc619>, ICT Project Manager
Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies
<http://www.bath.ac.uk/csct>
University of Bath
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