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
