Facebook en version libre aka Diaspora

[Kiki aux Morilles]

http://joindiaspora.com/project.html

We are 140-character ideas. We are the pictures of your cat. We are blog posts about the economy. We are the collective knowledge that is Wikipedia. The internet is a canvas – of which, we paint broad and fine strokes of our lives with. It is a forward extension of our physical lives; a meta-self comprised of ones and zeros. We are all that is digital: If we weren’t, the internet wouldn’t either.

current state.

We already have a rudimentary prototype of Diaspora running on our machines, and are working like mad to make it all we can be. Our current implementations include GPG encryption, scraping Twitter and Flickr, awesome design aesthetics, and the initial stages of connection infrastructure (“friending” other Diaspora instances).

first sprint.

It is our one and only goal to get Diaspora in the hands of every man, woman, and child at summer’s end. September 2010 will signify the release of the project in its first iteration, fully open-sourced under the AGPL. This release will be comprised of several key features for Diaspora, mainly:

Full-fledged communications between Seeds (Diaspora instances)
End to end GPG
External Service Scraping of most major services (reclaim your data)
Version 1 of Diaspora’s API with documentation
Public GitHub repository of all Diaspora code
second sprint.

Once the core application is finished, we will focus on extending Diaspora, unleashing a battery of add-on modules and updates to the core system with the open-source community. We will migrate back to New York City to set up house, and will devise plans to make it even easier for the general public to utilize Diaspora, a la a dead-simple, five-minute setup. Like the first sprint, the second sprint will also be all about reclaiming all that is us.

flooring it to 88mph.

The future will offer a multitude of amazing new capabilities for Diaspora. A taste of what’s floating around in our heads right now:

OpenID
Voice-over IP
Distributed Encrypted Backups
Instant Messaging protocol
UDP integration
“The only limit is yourself.”

[kakru]

et c'est quoi??

[dwan]

C'est une tentative de créer un réseau social libre et acentré (avantage principal : maîtrise de ses données), que chacun pourrait installer chez soi s'il le veut. Ils voulaient lever 10 000$ pour travailler dessus cet été, ils ont récolté plus de 180 000$, le buzz aidant.

J'attends de voir : ils ont récolté énormément de thunes sans avoir montré une seule ligne de code. Pendant ce temps-là, Movim (autre projet du même genre, http://www.movim.eu) est déjà bien avancé, réutilise du code existant, se base sur un protocole libre (XMPP : facebook chat, chat gmail, jabber, ...), et a récolté moins de 100€.