Dnia wtorek, 15 maja 2012 o 00:36:01 wayne, steve napisał(a): > Is anyone on this thread aware of the Independent Media Center > movement? It is something I am learning about and getting involved > with. I am donating my personal desktop PC to my local IMC to be > used to host web content. Others in the community have begun > donating their old computers and network devices also. I imagine > that each of us on this list has the potential to rally support > for such "independent media centers" in our own local areas that > can be coordinated globally through the internet.
Oh, this is precisely what we need!! We need *globally distributed* hosting, i.e. hosting on Hadoop filesystems[1], inaccessible to the users hosting them; we need distribution of network load (p2p and TOR might help here, at least conceptually). Basically, we need SETI@Home / BOINC for disk space and network load, instead of (or rather "aside from") CPU and RAM. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadoop > Also, I can think of multiple groups with similar goals and ethical > standards: indymedia.org, riseup.net, sdf.org, fsf.org, etc. Yes. > Rather than trying to tag our lofty goal of providing Freedom > Network services onto any one of these (FSF in the case of this > discussion), why not simply establish a working group whose > purpose is to make these groups more aware of one another at the > operational level. That is a good idea, but we would need somebody to spearhead that. And I mean a person person completely engaged, full-time. > After we have established a relationship among these groups based > on our common goals, this "working group" could become a "steering > committee" whose aim is to democratically organize effort among > the groups--that is, assuming we can establish common ground among > the groups. We can. But we need to be delicate about it - we all know how anal retentive all freedom loving communities tend to be... > By approaching existing groups in this way, we can rally support to > initiate a funding campaign by which we can purchase and distribute > hardware, develop new protocols and software (where necessary) and > train individuals to lead their own local Freedom Network > services. Similarily to what TOR Project does. They are high-profile and well funded precisely because they work with multiple communities (human rights; free software; net neutrality). The FaiF Distributed Cloud Project or whatever we would call it could/should also work in a similar manner. > Am I making sense? Yes, a *lot*. ;) -- Pozdrawiam Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania
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