[Freedombox-discuss] objectives
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 12:17:50PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> Catching up on recent list traffic, it's clear to me that we're
> suffering from the fact that "freedombox" means so many different things
> to different people. As a member of the foundation's board and chair of
> the technical advisory committee, I've spent a lot of time thinking
> about what it is that we're actually trying to do, and pondering how to
> get from where we are to a useful reference implementation. To that
> end, I think it's time to articulate a roadmap, starting with a
> statement of objectives for the core that consolidates our shared values
> and vision, and provides a framework for turning our is/is-not thinking
> in to a manifest of software components to be included in a system
> image.
>
> As my own thinking has evolved, I now believe we are pursuing two
> related but different top-level objectives. One derives from Eben's
> early articulation of motivation that many of us responded to a year or
> more ago, the other is driven largely by our collective reaction to
> recent global circumstances.
>
> We want to provide a way for people to share with others narrowly or
> broadly a set of thoughts and media objects hosted on infrastructure
> they own themselves and thus have ultimate control over, as an
> attractive alternative to such sharing via popular existing services
> that provide little control.
"On infrastructure they own", or owned by trusted peers, i.e someone could
run a jabber node and share it with some firends while using another
service hosted by one of its peers.
> We want to provide a way for people to communicate with each other
> privately, minimizing their dependence on service providers, and
> hopefully providing some resiliency in the face of service outages.
It doesn't seem incompatible to the first point I believe, and is often
something to think at the beginning of a project, so that choices are made
correctly. Eben talked about people helping chinese or iranian people in
his talk, so I think it's part of the project as much as the first point.
Censorship circumvention and getting rid of the cloudy services were the
two main points of Eben's talks I think, and they should shape the
freedombox project. They are a lot related. After all it's all about
freedom of speech on the internet. :)
bert.
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