On Saturday, October 22, 2011 12:03:18 PM, Sean Dague wrote: > On 10/22/2011 11:38 AM, Eric Myers wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011, Sean Dague wrote: > >> The diaspora team, who are building an open source social network, now > >> have working code out there, as well as a canonical instance of it at > >> http://joindiaspora.com. They've done some good stuff, including easy > >> posting from diaspora to both facebook and twitter. > >> > >> If you are interested, let me know. I think it's still an invite model. > > > > One can also register to get an invitation, though if Sean is already on > > then an invite through him might arrive sooner. > > I'm already on, so I can send out invites. I wasn't quite caffeinated > enough when I sent that first email, so I left that part out. :)
I thought that was safely assumed -- but you've cleared that up regardless. > > It seems Diaspora involves a collection of servers, called 'pods', and > > the pods exchange the information with other pods. You join a pod that > > you feel you can trust with your personal information. Or you can set > > one up yourself, with Apache+Ruby+MySQL (or Nginx instead of Apache). > > > > So perhaps just for a test, an MHVLUG pod would be in order, if Sean or > > someone else is going to play with the code anyway. And those not > > interested in the setup details could play with the interface on that > > pod even if invites from the main pod are not yet forthcoming. > > If someone wants to set up another pod, that would be cool. I've > personally got a few too many tasks on my plate to do it. I'd be willing to try setting one up, for several reasons. IIRC diaspora is part of the FreedomBox infrastructure, and anything I can do to help that effort is something I'm definitely interested in. As such I'm interested in an invite for that purpose -- however I don't plan on ever being on Facebook. [I might be interested in Twitter -- but I haven't looked enough into what privacy concerns people have with it yet.] -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Nov 2 - POV-Ray and The Relativity Train Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects
