Diasora is a new Social Network built with privacy and full control over users' data. It is funded by internet users around the world and built by Free Software community. This project was inspired by Prof Eben Moglen of Software Freedom Law Center and started by 4 students Maxwell Salzberg, Daniel Grippi, Ilya Zhirtomirsky, Rafael Sofaer from New York University as their summer project. It is been around for a year now. It is still in alpha testing, nearing a beta release soon. Being Free Software users, we can fit the role of early adopters testing and suggesting features, hopefully even implementing some features too.
The idea of the meetup is to come up with some plans for expanding the diaspora community, esecially encouraging more students to get involved and help implement some necessary features. We will be conducting ruby on rails workshop to train those interested in contributing. If you want to be part of growing and important community, do come for the meetup. Remember to register at http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/meetups and bring at least one A2 size paper (optionally bring sketch pens and markers if you have some). Our main activity for the meetup will be making diaspora posters. We are planning to cover as many colleges and public places with this campaign. Looking forward to meeting some of you. If you want to try diaspora before the meetup see http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/invitations also there is wonderful tutorial site for diaspora by Kevin Kleinman at http://diasporial.com Feel free to ask anything more you want to know, Cheers Praveen Helped a bit to translate diasora to Malayalam _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List