On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Rob Myers wrote: > Conor Schaefer wrote: >> MJ Ray wrote: >>> Gavin Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> I think we have the domain freeculture.net, which has previously been >>>> offered for someone who wants to put it to a non-student use. >>>> >>> >>> If so, could we start an open social network (vCard, FOAF, and so on) >>> on that domain?
[lots of "yes"s snipped out] As the resident tech custodian for FC.o, MJ, if you want to talk off-list (or to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list - that would be best) about what we can do that establishes an "open social network" - is there software to install? Do we give everyone SSH access and just tell them to upload their own FOAF + vCard files? I thought the point of "open social networks" was that they operated on top of people's existing websites using things like RDFa and microformats so that you didn't need a central domain for them at all. MJ - if you're willing to help out with this, I encourage you to sign up for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list at http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/webteam . I'm not totally convinced that this is the best way forward to include the most people, but it sounds like an idea totally worth exploring. I don't know the details of what you're proposing and how easy to use it would be, which is one major factor in figuring out how many people would use it and therefore if it's the best use of the resources. If there are discussions to be had that are interesting for FC-Discuss (i.e., ones other than implementation details / sysadmin discussions), then I'm all for having a fresh thread on the topic here first. -- Asheesh. -- The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. -- Gilbert K. Chesterson _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
