On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 12:17:50PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > Catching up on recent list traffic, it's clear to me that we're > suffering from the fact that "freedombox" means so many different things > to different people. As a member of the foundation's board and chair of > the technical advisory committee, I've spent a lot of time thinking > about what it is that we're actually trying to do, and pondering how to > get from where we are to a useful reference implementation. To that > end, I think it's time to articulate a roadmap, starting with a > statement of objectives for the core that consolidates our shared values > and vision, and provides a framework for turning our is/is-not thinking > in to a manifest of software components to be included in a system > image. > > As my own thinking has evolved, I now believe we are pursuing two > related but different top-level objectives. One derives from Eben's > early articulation of motivation that many of us responded to a year or > more ago, the other is driven largely by our collective reaction to > recent global circumstances. > > We want to provide a way for people to share with others narrowly or > broadly a set of thoughts and media objects hosted on infrastructure > they own themselves and thus have ultimate control over, as an > attractive alternative to such sharing via popular existing services > that provide little control.
"On infrastructure they own", or owned by trusted peers, i.e someone could run a jabber node and share it with some firends while using another service hosted by one of its peers. > We want to provide a way for people to communicate with each other > privately, minimizing their dependence on service providers, and > hopefully providing some resiliency in the face of service outages. It doesn't seem incompatible to the first point I believe, and is often something to think at the beginning of a project, so that choices are made correctly. Eben talked about people helping chinese or iranian people in his talk, so I think it's part of the project as much as the first point. Censorship circumvention and getting rid of the cloudy services were the two main points of Eben's talks I think, and they should shape the freedombox project. They are a lot related. After all it's all about freedom of speech on the internet. :) bert. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
