I'm curious to know if and how this compares to what http://refuge.io is trying to do.
-----Original Message----- From: Noah Slater [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 11:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Cozy, a personal cloud you can host, hack and delete based on CouchDB Dropping user@ and adding dev@ This is absolutely brilliant. Thanks for posting! Would you be interested in writing up a case study? If you do, we'll feature it prominently. This is good for you, as you get a bit of exposure, and it's good for us, because people learn how other people are using CouchDB. On 23 October 2013 18:26, Frank Rousseau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We started Cozy because we were annoyed by the fact that our > personal data were spread among major cloud company silos. We wanted > to take the full potential out of our data without worrying about privacy > issues. > > To solve that, we built a personal PaaS that is simple to use and > allows everyone to host and build easily web applications that > collaborate around their personal data. The software we chosed to > store the data is CouchDB. Why that? Because we want to : > > * allow our user to backup their data super-easily > * allow our user to have data proxies on their device to keep on > working even when they are "offline". > > Moreover we like the Document Store paradigm, so we really enjoyed > using CouchDB in our developments. > (see full architecture here: > http://cozy.io/hack/getting-started/architecture-overview.html) > NB: Today, we are working on a FUSE implementation to allow users to > access to their DB attachments like an usual filesystem. > > About who is behind the project, it is supported by a startup, Cozy > Cloud, part of the Mozilla WebFWD accelerator (our business model is > based on professional services around the solution for hosting > providers and hardware manufacturers). > > For your information, yesterday, we published our first release, name > "Snowden", as a tribute to the person the NSA hates the most! He > provided us with proofs of what we have suspected: the cloud is not a > paradise. It has helped us tremendously in explaining the benefits of > Cozy, we are grateful for his work. > > If you want to give it a try, you will find informations in the links below. > NB: This first version only includes the core module. The available > applications (contacts, calendar, photos...) still require some work. > > Annoucement: http://cozy.io/v1-snowden-release/ > Project website: http://cozy.io > Demo: https://demo.cozycloud.cc > > If you see any way we could collaborate, we would be glad to hear from you! > > Regards, > > Frank Rousseau > > -- > twitter.com/mycozycloud > github.com/mycozycloud > -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
