On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:41:14PM -0400, Les Orchard wrote:
On 3/18/11 2:23 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:+1This may or may not entirely agree with what you mean, but: I'd like my FreedomBox to be my command center for the cloud.It may itself be a service provider in a web of computers (eg. I run Wordpress in my house on port 80). But, I'd also like mine to be a private node that orchestrates the use of things like Amazon S3, Rackspace, Nearly Free Speech, Twitter, Facebook, etc.Correct: That absolutely does not at all agree with what I mean.Orchestrating centralized services from home may be cloud computing, but not a silverlining of it and thus unrelated to FreedomBox!Yeah, I figured we disagreed on that.Personally, I think there's a spectrum / gradual path of cloud control to be had, i.e.: from Facebook user; to FreedomBox user publishing to Facebook; to FreedomBox user publishing to other FreedomBoxes. Skipping the middle step might be a missed opportunity to bridge people across.
When I explain how the "pure" of "Debian Pure Blends" means "100%" and not "99.9%", some find me cynical and not wanting to "play with the other kids in the street".
But I do.2000+ Debian packages unofficially compiled and published at http://debian.jones.dk/ should be proof that I do unpure stuff myself.
I also want to orchestrate Facebook and other centralized services. I just refrain from labelling such work as FreedomBox.
I find it damaging to the FreedomBox project to stuff any and all things Freedom* related into that poor little box. And even more so non-Freedom* related stuff like sending emails to a potential future boss.
We don't need to agree. Hopefully. I sure hope that I am wrong and the wide spectrum of (interesting!) projects labeled FreedomBox is helpful not only for boosting those projects but also for the FreedomBox project to make as much sense when reality as it does in each of our minds.
- Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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