Awesome! Alex Am Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2013 schrieb Frank Rousseau :
> Hi all, > > We started Cozy because we were annoyed by the fact that our personal > data were spread among major cloud company silos. We wanted to take the > full potential out of our data without worrying about privacy issues. > > To solve that, we built a personal PaaS that is simple to use and allows > everyone to host and build easily web > applications that collaborate around their personal data. The software we > chosed to store the data is CouchDB. Why that? Because we want to : > > * allow our user to backup their data super-easily > * allow our user to have data proxies on their device to keep on working > even when they are "offline". > > Moreover we like the Document Store paradigm, so we really enjoyed using > CouchDB in our developments. > (see full architecture here: http://cozy.io/hack/getting-** > started/architecture-overview.**html<http://cozy.io/hack/getting-started/architecture-overview.html> > ) > NB: Today, we are working on a FUSE implementation to allow users to > access to their DB attachments like an usual filesystem. > > About who is behind the project, it is supported by a startup, Cozy Cloud, > part of the Mozilla WebFWD accelerator (our business model is based on > professional services around the solution for hosting providers and > hardware manufacturers). > > For your information, yesterday, we published our first release, name > "Snowden", as a tribute to the person the NSA hates the most! He provided > us with proofs of what we have suspected: the cloud is not a paradise. It > has helped us tremendously in explaining the benefits of Cozy, we are > grateful for his work. > > If you want to give it a try, you will find informations in the links > below. > NB: This first version only includes the core module. The available > applications (contacts, calendar, photos...) still require some work. > > Annoucement: > http://cozy.io/v1-snowden-**release/<http://cozy.io/v1-snowden-release/> > Project website: http://cozy.io > Demo: https://demo.cozycloud.cc > > If you see any way we could collaborate, we would be glad to hear from you! > > Regards, > > Frank Rousseau > > -- > twitter.com/mycozycloud > github.com/mycozycloud > > -- *********************************************************** Alexander Gabriel Wiesenstrasse 22 8800 Thalwil 079/ 372 51 64 [email protected] www.barbalex.ch
