Hi Peter, On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Patrick Anderson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Matthew Brett wrote: >> > any prospect of this kind of infrastructure >> > being available as an open service? >> > What about OpenStack? But then, >> > who will pay for the infrastructure? >> >> Hello Matthew and all, >> >> I have been working on a organizational solution to the lack of "Free >> as in Freedom" hosting. >> >> I am very excited about my findings, but can find few others with >> these same interests. >> >> Is this within the scope of OKFN, > > > Almost certainly a big YES. > > The OKFN is pragmatic and has also asserted that their must be no technical > barriers to Openness while recognising that computing is not zero cost. So > if it costs (say) 10 dollars per year that should not be a barrier to > openness while 1000 almost certainly is. My rough rule is "similar to the > cost of posting it" - but that's just me. > > If they build a walled garden, however, then that's a different problem
I wasn't sure what you meant here. Firing up a small number of Amazon nodes is fairly cheap. I think hosting public data is free [1]. Do you think that using Amazon is within the bounds of openness as OKFN would see it? One motivation for open-access publication is that people with little or no money can read the papers. Does this also apply to computing do you think? For example, I could imagine that relatively wealthy universities would get scientific benefit from sharing resources with less wealthy institutions, such as schools or universities from poorer countries. See you, Matthew [1] http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
