In short: we have several groups of folks working on problems of standardized, distributed, and data-centric applications. Why aren't we cooperating, or at least communicating, about our problems and observations?
---- Lionel Dricot [0], Dr. Daniel Smith [1, 2], Michiel de Jong [3], Mike Macgirvin [4], and Markus Sabadello [5] seem to have come to similar conclusions: having a bunch of semi-interoperable applications that do the same thing but don't share their data is wasted effort and added complexity (it's "silly"). When applications can share their data store and give the privilege, responsibility, and complexity of storing their data to a separate data layer, writing applications becomes a lot easier and the applications themselves become more reliable, flexible, and under the user's control. Here, we have several communities with at least a few dozen people working in this problem space, so we should try to communicate and cooperate on our shared goals. In this world of limited resources and volunteered time, there's no greater sin than duplicated effort. I believe that the Unhosted, WebBox, and Friendica projects are furthest along in their work, and it'd be interesting to hear which pieces they've completed. We could then start getting ideas of how everything can interact, cross project. Some FreedomBox tools, like Exmachnia [6] (and, to a lesser extent, FreedomBuddy [7]), might also be useful here. I'd love to hear any thoughts you folks have on this subject. Thanks for your time, Nick 0: http://ploum.net/post/freasy-future-for-gnome 1: https://github.com/danielsmith-eu/webbox 2: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mvk/webbox-pim.pdf 3: http://unhosted.org/manifesto.html 4: http://friendica.com/node/24 5: http://projectdanube.org/ 6: Exmachnia is a tool to allow maintainable, system-wide automated configuration from any front-end. 7: FreedomBuddy is location-ignorant location tool: it lets friends keep communicating despite constant motion through both IP- and meat-space, without relying on third parties.
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