Sorry for the lack of a better title, but I can't really sum up my thoughts into a clear title...

First, to clear up web ramblings on whether Tonido is open or closed...Tonido is a platform. This platform is open source and free software under the Apache license. Some of the applications (plugins), like WebShare or Thots, might not be free, open source software. It's very much like Google's Android or Apple's Mac OS X - the platform is open, but some things might not be. Building Tonido by following the guides will give you a base but limited applications. If you further follow the SDK, you can easily develop your own replacements for these, if you so wish.

And many of you will notice that our open source documentation is, well, lacking and pretty out-dated. It's sort-of a spiral downwards - not many users are interested in an Open Source Tonido so we don't really update the documentation, so less users are interested, so we write less...etc.

So what I think we need is a rewrite of Tonido Open Source documentation and to create maybe a subdomain, opensource.tonido.com or something, put up a simple Trac wiki (really nothing big...) or something, and use it as a playground for open sourced Tonido.

If users are interested, let me know and I'll see what I can do. I'm thinking it's time for a refresh and reinvigoration.

I actually might be able to drum up some interest over at the ReadyNAS forums to port Tonido to their x86 line of products if you could point me in the direction of whatever the current documentation and files necessary to build it. Tonido + ReadyNAS would be awesome.

The old instructions and code is at http://developer.tonido.com

Thanks!

Is the core open source or close source?

I finally manage (one small thing to make better still) to make the tonido sdk compile on fedora 10 64 bits (with dependency on only the distrib packages), using cmake instead of bjam to build.
But I cannot start it for many reasons, the main one being the missing libcore.so.
Is it worth keeping on working on that?
I really think tonido is a great idea but i do not have enough machine to run it in a ubuntu 804 vm.
would the tonido team be interested by my code changes?

We would definitely be interested in your changes. Are you primarily interested in running Tonido on Fedora? Does the supplied Fedora 32bit package work at all for you?

The libcore.so is not open source at this moment.

sorry, my bad, i made it built on my server as my laptop is over heating.
my server is running ubuntu 10.04 64bits (and not fedora)
I cannot use the libcore.so as it requires 32 bit libraries i do not have (and I do not feel like going that path).
it built with gcc 4.33 and the standard packages of ubuntu 10.04 (no need to embed them in svn)

i need to clean a few things and then i can send you my files

What is the directory structure for tonido?

If i want to create a plugin, what are the directories I need to know about?

Thanks,

Krishna

You can develop Tonido extensions in PHP.
Resources are available at http://www.tonido.com/support/Developer:Main
and http://tonidouser.com/doku.php?id=phpdevsdk:start

and through the forums.

You can look at existing PHP apps like TonidoShell etc to get an idea.