Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendika

2011-07-13 Thread James Vasile
This is excellent. Nice work! On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:27:29 +0100, Keith Fernie m...@keithfernie.co.uk wrote: A slow Friendika (not Zot!) running on a Dreamplug can be tried out here http://friendika.freedombox.me.uk With Debian Squeeze Pagekite. Also running with Nginx instead of

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendika

2011-07-13 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 13 July 2011 13:09, Mike Macgirvin m...@macgirvin.com wrote: This looks like an interesting approach.  Has anybody used it/hacked it/loved it/hated it?  Is this something you want to see in the FreedomBox? http://project.friendika.com/ There are many other projects like it and a W3C

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] talk at meeting for members of EU parliament

2011-07-13 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 13:00 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: EPFSUG is a grassroots organisation to promote Free Software at the EU parliament. EPFSUG has invitet me to give a talk on FreedomBox: http://epfsug.eu/content/epfsug-invites-freedombox Hi Jonas, very good that you're extending the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendika

2011-07-13 Thread Aitor Pazos
I'm not an expert, but I'm worried about how many federated social alternatives are being developed, in many cases without tackling the underlying problems. We have protocols for our needs, we just have to integrate them, because each one is good for different needs. We have http for

[Freedombox-discuss] Abstracted configuration (was: Re: Friendika)

2011-07-13 Thread Henri Asseily
On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:05 PM, Aitor Pazos wrote: I'm not an expert, but I'm worried about how many federated social alternatives are being developed, in many cases without tackling the underlying problems. We have protocols for our needs, we just have to integrate them, because each one is

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendika

2011-07-13 Thread Ing. Otto Marroquin
On 07/13/2011 10:05 AM, Aitor Pazos wrote: We have protocols for our needs, we just have to integrate them, because each one is good for different needs. ... It's a matter of introducing some abstraction on top of them (akonadi already integrates almost all this kind of services) and

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendika

2011-07-13 Thread Boaz
WebID uses SSL, but as far as I understand it doesn't rely in any CA. The certificates can be self-signed and they will work the same. It uses the private key installed in your PC (which might not be very convenient) and checks if it belongs to the public key (which you have copied sometime

[Freedombox-discuss] Working with W3C Federated Social Web

2011-07-13 Thread ya knygar
W3C FSW has - not only OStatus: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Protocols http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/FederatedSocialWebCharter nor - had - previous SW incubator - http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/XGR-socialweb/ i think - if something isn't

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Working with W3C Federated Social Web

2011-07-13 Thread ya knygar
Freedombox is a bigger project than a Web project, but hopefully it will leverage the Web aspect for its users, as much as possible. yes, that's why i named the topic Working with.. Another point is - web browser developers that can suit our needs - like Mozilla now have - all that's needed for

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendika

2011-07-13 Thread Henry Story
On 13 Jul 2011, at 20:50, Boaz wrote: You dont need to give your key on a slip of paper (you can if you want of course), it's on your home page. Hopefully your freedom box also hosts a web server too, preferably with https Okay, so you have a home page, and on this home page is your key.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendika

2011-07-13 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 13 July 2011 23:32, Mike Macgirvin m...@macgirvin.com wrote: On 14/07/2011 12:03 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: W3C is around to make sure everyone plays fairly, and everyone gets a say.  OStatus are there because they have made an effort and have implementations.  Zot can be too.  Facebook

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendika

2011-07-13 Thread Tony Godshall
[Melvin] ... I'll federate with whatever emerges - but so far all I have to work with is an insecure spammy protocol which you can't get anywhere near private messages - as it is publicly broadcast. We do our best to support it despite these fundamental flaws. [Mike] ... Awesome.  Hopefully