Thanks for the quick followup, Ted! On 05/27/2010 04:37 PM, Ted Smith wrote: > This is all rather new. Here's the recent timeline: > > * On May 6th, Matt Lee posted to this list (social-discuss) with > the subject line "The next step". This email outlined a new plan > for the GNU Social project:
This is the full message for those who want to read the archives: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/social-discuss/2010-05/msg00015.html i actually had read most of that message but i confess i'd missed this crucial framing of the re-direction amid the eloquent statement of the problems with centralized social networks. The message also ends with: >> What does the protocol look like? We'll be working with some of the best >> people out there in the free software and social web communities to >> bring you that answer. Which is not exactly a call for contributions (unless the reader has a huge ego ;P ). > * Since then very little discussion on this topic has happened, on > this list or on [email protected] (in fact, that list has about two > threads IIRC). this is the first i'm hearing of [email protected]. can you explain the difference between that list and this one? why is that list not listed on the wiki? > People need to speak up about this protocol we're supposedly developing, > otherwise this project will rapidly lose relevance and die. Someone > might do what we're trying to do now, but I'd rather not leave that up > to chance. Yes, agreed! Perhaps a small number of framing questions would be useful to get the discussion going? --dkg
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