[p2p-research] VERY urgent request for Ning

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Patrick,

I would totally support your attempts to do this for the P2P Foundation!

Sam, thanks for the proposal.

If nobody has a better proposal, I think it is an excellent idea!

We have 3 months it seems ...

Michel

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com>wrote:

> Samuel Rose wrote:
> > We can use ELGG as an alternative. It's just as nice as Ning. I'd be
> > glad to set it up... (GNU is looking at using it for GNUSocial right
> > now, too)
>
> Sam, are you saying you will pay the hosting costs yourself?
>
> That's fine at first, for small groups and little storage, but of
> course won't scale very far.
>
> This is a great opportunity for us to begin trying to tackle the
> complexities of co-ownership.
>
> Once we understand how to share the Physical Sources required for
> software, we can get serious about hosting email, video, applications
> (SaaS), and even Operating Systems (cloud).
>
> And once we understand how to share computer resources, we can use the
> same findings to begin sharing the far more important Sources of our
> Food and Shelter.
>
> Patrick
>
> _______________________________________________
> p2presearch mailing list
> p2presearch at listcultures.org
> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org
>



-- 
Work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhurakij_Pundit_University - Think thank:
http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net  - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net

Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss:
http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org

Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens;
http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/attachments/20100416/1f6bb46e/attachment.html>