Re: [Social-discuss] Four projects

[Pablo Martin]

Hi!

On 17/03/10 00:38, elijah wrote:
> I just read the archives from start to finish, and I think there are
> really four distinct yet interrelated projects:
>
> (1) Stand Alone, Federated Website: the world needs a codebase that is
> easy to download and install to run a social network on your server.
> This website must publish its data, and subscribe to data, in some as
> yet undetermined social protocol. It must be AGPL.
>
> (2) A New Social Protocol: there are many proposed social protocols,
> each with strengths and weaknesses, but none that really meet all the
> needs (secure, partitioned social context, push, data agnostic, etc).
>
> (3) Semi-autonomous Clients: If we are to protect ourselves from the
> dangers of a society in which all our personal data is controlled by
> some cloud provider then we need encryption to take place on the client
> (the data itself may be largely stored in the cloud). An example of a
> secure, decentralized social network client is wuala (proprietary).
>
> (4) Social Data Gateway: A daemon that speaks a routing protocol to
> queue and deliver messages, agnostic of the data the messages contain.
>
> So, I think we are really having four conversations: gnu-social-site,
> gnu-social-protocol, gnu-social-client, and gnu-social-gateway.
>
> At this point, it seems to me that a wiki page is in order. It would:
>
> (a) summarize the major design issues with each project
> (b) summarize prior work in the area related to each project
> (c) analyze the limitations of prior work
>
> If we all chip in, this research could be done quickly. I think it would
> be premature to do much coding before this map is drawn.
>   

I think this is a very good analysis, and agree that we need a wiki for
this, can we have something? Do we have some wiki for the project, use
http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Group:GNU_Social/Ideas, or... ?

Greetings

 Pablo