> > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Parker Higgins > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I'd guess somebody to handle correspondence with the outside world. (Or at >> > least, synthesize it to present to the team, accept a condensed response >> > from the team, and proliferate a more eloquent version.) The success of the >> > Kickstarter project means that there are almost 5000 people with a >> > financial >> > interest in the project in addition to all of the ones who are just >> > interested... that probably adds up to a lot of questions and general >> > communication, and I think everybody is in agreement that what the >> > Diaspora* >> > guys need to do know is write some code. And now that they've got the money >> > to hire a person for the summer to just respond to e-mails and whatnot, >> > they >> > probably ought to. >> > Just my two cents, don't want to step on your toes, SJ. >> > Parker >> > >> > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Elizabeth Stark <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >>> >> >>> >> What do you mean by "secretary?" >>> >> >>> >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> You'll be glad that you did. >>>> > > I got the opportunity to meet and speak with Shava Nerad (CC'd in case > she'd like to make a recommendation), previously of the Tor group, who > helped change and then maintain Tor's image during the time when it > was getting started and was highly visible in the media. Retaining > somebody of her intellect and savvy can help a project out a lot while > simultaneously taking a lot of burden off of active developers and > hackers. > > Between GNU Social, Diaspora*, Free Culture and friends, we have a > very large number of people fielding questions and developing ideas. I > think it would serve us all very well to have somebody taking the lead > in dealing with the media and interested citizens; Diaspora* is in a > very commanding position to find that person, feed him or her, and > make the most out of the present situation. > > Ryan >
Hi, My name is Brad Kipfer and I just joined this list yesterday. I've started a project at Mozilla Drumbeat to rally support and interest for building a free and open social network. https://www.drumbeat.org/project/we-need-free-and-open-social-network Current Facebook privacy concerns and then news of the Diaspora project have brought a lot of attention to the idea for the moment, but I hope we can sustain and broaden interest and increase support so more people get involved in developing this. I'm thinking that a single central project focused on raising awareness and support could benefit many different projects engaged in the actual building of the network. Perhaps a person like you are talking about here might be based with such an organization instead of working for a single development team. I'm not the person to really get this going, I'm just making the proposal. :-) If people here think something like this is a good idea, I'd love your help. Otherwise, I'd love to see someone more qualified do something similar and better! (If it's happening, please let me know- I think one such project would be better than multiple ones.) Ideas, comments, criticism, support (here and at Drumbeat) welcome, no begged for! Thanks, Brad
