Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : solid Version : varies Upstream Author : varies * URL : https://solid.mit.edu/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: node.js, etc Description : set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles
Solid (derived from "social linked data") is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles. Solid is modular and extensible and it relies as much as possible on existing W3C standards and protocols. At a glance, here is what Solid offers... * True data ownership: Users should have the freedom to choose where their data resides and who is allowed to access it. By decoupling content from the application itself, users are now able to do so. * Modular design: Because applications are decoupled from the data they produce, users will be able to avoid vendor lock-in, seamlessly switching between apps and personal data storage servers, without losing any data or social connections. * Reusing existing data: Developers will be able to easily innovate by creating new apps or improving current apps, all while reusing existing data that was created by other apps. In addition to the main Solid webpage, Inrupt(a startup company created to work on Solid) has some good pages https://solid.inrupt.com/ Solid has server implementations, tools, apps, etc. The main repository is https://github.com/solid * node-solid-server is the server reference implementation * there are various libraries for doing things like authorization, ACLs, OpenID, etc * There are some apps listed at https://github.com/solid/solid-apps Whomever takes this on will need to determine which components make sense to include in debian in order to provide a reasonable support for developing and deploying Solid applications. On https://solid.inrupt.com/community under "Packaging" they state they would like to get distro packages created. -- Matt Taggart tagg...@debian.org
