The Autonomo.us Open Software Services Evolution featuring Identi.ca Jon Phillips, jon@rejon.org

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Who provides your e-mail service?

Where do you post your photos?

Do you download music (still)?

Multiple Devices Multiple Locations Centralized Personal Data

On-line Network Services RULE Supreme

The modern person's primary concern in using a computer is to get things done and stay connected with others globally in the most effective ways possible.

Where's your data?

What can be done with your data?

Anyone use g-mail?

What the hell is Web 2.0?

No redundancy?

I want to move to a new service!

Where are my friends?

Its my data!

Where are my freedoms ? (1) use, (2) study and adapt, (3) distribute, (4) improve

Its someone else's computer though...hmmm...

SOLUTION (and we have done this before)

FREE SOFTWARE

But, it is not enough because...

Its APC (Another Person's Computer)

Terms of Service, Privacy Policies

“We've told ourselves it's ok.” (Evan)

We need AUTONOMY .

Franklin Street Declaration http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/

Developers

Make source available, preferably with GNU Affero GPL 3.0 software license

Create free services to replace popular non-free alternatives.

Replace centralized services with open distributed ones when possible.

Service Providers

Choose Free Software for services.

Release customizations to software under a Free Software license.

Make data and works of authorship available to service’s users under legal terms and in formats that enable the users to move and use their data outside of a service. * Users should control their private data. * Data available to all users of the service should be available under terms approved for Free Cultural Works or Open Knowledge.

Users

Consider carefully whether to use software on someone else’s computer at all. Where it is possible, they should use Free Software equivalents that run on their own computer. Services may have substantial benefits, but they represent a loss of control for users and introduce several problems of freedom.

When deciding whether to use a network service, look for services that follow the guidelines listed above, so that, when necessary, they still have the freedom to modify or replicate the service without losing their own data.

The Social Web Should Work Like the Document Web: Distributed Open standards Easy linking Ubiquitous Multiple implementations Identity (OpenID)

Desktop to web

Web development is simple.

Gnome Online Desktop is too hard. (how can you even install it if you aren't running fedora?)

Long development cycles

Community processes (not as bad as OO.o)

Reliance upon cranky software development languages.

Lots to get done :) Opportunity!

Calendaring http://calendar.google.com/ http://30boxes.net/

Social Bookmarks http://del.icio.us/ http://reddit.com

Social News http://reddit.com http://digg.com http://mixx.com http://propeller.com

Storage http://s3.amazonaws.com/ http://archive.org http://box.net http://dreamhost.com ? webdav

Photo Sharing http://flickr.com http://picasa.com

Video Sharing http://youtube.com http://blip.tv

Mapping http://maps.google.com (ditu) http://openstreetmap.org/ http://openlayers.org/

Web Search http://search.wikia.com http://google.com http://yahoo.com http://live.com http://ask.com http://baidu.com http://sina.com

Homepage http://www.google.com/ig http://www.pageflakes.com/ http://www.netvibes.com/

Computing Power on Demand http://ec2.amazonaws.com/ http://linode.com/ (Distributed power?)

Distributed Commenting http://www.disqus.com/ http://www.cocomment.com/

Social Networking http://www.facebook.com/ http://mugshot.org ?

Gnome Desktop must be a lean mean on-line desktop machine.

Fast. Lean. Non-Crashing Browser.

Gnome 3.0?

Sustain-o-bility ( Business models?)

Support/Contracts

Advertising

Custom Setups for domains (tis federated)

Chinese businesses can play role in accelerating this next dynamic wave of the FLOSS movement.

Lets do it!

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Internships + Sysadmin + Developer Opportunities in Beijing NOW !

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The Autonomo.us Open Software Services Evolution featuring Identi.ca Jon Phillips, jon@rejon.org