[p2p-research] personal server technology

[Michel Bauwens]

this is great marco,

will we see each other in Rome?

Michel

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:58 PM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 16:41:23 PM +0700, Michel Bauwens
> (michelsub2004 at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > Might be nice to republish on the p2p blog?
>
> Thanks for the offer! I want to finish the "feature list" mentioned in
> the second URL first. Besides, just yesterday, by pure coincidence, I
> also had an email exchange with Moglen about the Freedom Box. This is
> another "personal server technology", namely the "free as in freedom
> hardware" on which Diaspora, the distributed social network software
> (www.joindiaspora.com), should run some day:
>
>
> http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2010/feb/10/highlights-eben-moglens-freedom-cloud-talk/
>
> and in the mail exchange mentioned above I realized that what I call
> VPES (Virtual Personal Email Server) really looks (IMO, of course)
> like the email part of the Freedom Box. Because in spite of all the
> hype around the Freedom Box and Diaspora (which are both great and
> overdue ideas anyway!), regardless of how you physically implement it
> a Freedom Box should contain much more than Diaspora to be really
> useful.
>
> If all the box offered was a privacy-respectful alternative to
> Facebook or social networking in general, I and many others who, like
> me, only use those services for work-related contacts and promotion
> that should to be 100% public anyway wouldn't need it at all.
>
> Once I've done that "feature list" I may write on the p2p blog a
> synthesis of my other pieces and also develop this second point, that
> is how all these things could work out together. Does that make sense?
>
> Marco
>



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