Re: GNU Herds -- domains to redirect

[Dave Crossland]

On 01/03/2008, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>     Having freesoftware.jobs is good for a couple of reasons - it allows us
>     to make sure nobody doing freeware jobs, or proprietary software jobs
>     with gratis placement costs, etc.
>
>
> There is something I do not follow.  I do not see how the choice of
>  domain name will "allow" us to apply criteria to the _contents_ of the
>  site.  In fact, we can apply our criteria regardless of the domain name.

Matt is suggesting someone else may soon register freesoftware.jobs
and use it for purposes we won't like.

I think having the gnuherds webapp 'federate' with other sites (like
xmpp/jabber or gnutella federates in a p2p network) would allow
jobs.gnu.org to be a job site for jobs on gnu project software, while
gnuherds.org would be like jobs.nongnu.org but with the charter and
association and so on - which  I think is important to develop since
there are many free software developers who are not GNU developers -
and I will probably set up jobs.openfontlibrary.org for font-specific
jobs.

It would be great if freesoftware.jobs was federated with all of those
to provide a 'single listing' of all the free software jobs out there.

This kind of federated/p2p webapp system is the solution I see to the
ASP problem not yet dealt with in any affero webapp, where the power
and convenience of webapps isn't just in their access-from-anywhere
architecture but also their 'network effects' of aggregated users and
data. A free replacement for flickr is in plugins for gallery2 and its
ilk that federate personal photopublishing silos.

I hope the upcoming Affero summit will consider this, though sadly
theres no room for me to attend.

-- 
Regards,
Dave