almereyda
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8 years ago As a note, @maxlath and @pierreozoux were recently in a conversation with me about federated software directories.
Should we already encode this information above in a visual graph representation or do we fear fetishizing information?
Forking https://github.com/libreprojects/libreprojects could be a good start to meet visual and interactivity requirements for such an overview. Else I fear big spreadsheets for their rigid dimensionality; here we want to look out for diverse facets. I admit the pure markdown versions of these directories still aggregate the highest number of entries.
Also information about which communities use a certain product (a.k.a. deployments) could be most interesting in an aggregated, if preferred, anonymized view.
Comment streams for these items could be delivered by an external engine.
In the same time, @gandhiano and me are preparing something what we call a federated Commons Cloud which is about to be nothing else than shared, free and independent webhosting for Commons initiatives backed by a community of sysadmins and supporters. @ecobytes is also about to deploy a Hylo instance (part of Enspiral's Open App Ecosystem) for the next Degrowth conference 2016 in Budapest.
Still, in one of its tertiary senses, @transformap would like to be a replication site for this kind of infrastructure and itself want to mirror a representative selection of a running stack of interoperable (micro)services while being able to visualize namespaces like vf.
In working with communities I've learned these elaborations also include perspectives on 'legacy' software which, by its easy deployability via the LAMP stack, i.e., gained huge user bases. Plugins would be a way to talk to these ecosystems.
We may also think about if the OSI model still represents the Internet architecture compellingly enough, or if governance regimes and socioeconomic biases aren't to be thought within.
In a sense, how to identify and seperate Commons and commerce.
fosterlynn
pierreozoux
Long time, no see, guys! Hope everyone is well!
It feels right now like there is some momentum building for getting developers and projects together for infrastructure work for next economy or solidarity economy or solidarity non-economic infrastructure, etc..... thus this post to see what you all think.
There is a new tech workgroup coming out of the Impact Economy summit in BC (http://www.impacteconomy.io/). And I am thinking it would be great to take advantage of this momentum. It comes out of media and fundraising, but several of us are determined that it will be a broad consortium to make this stuff happen, and not fall under any fundraising or other umbrella.
Also there is the valueflows vocab project, https://github.com/valueflows/valueflows, which has seen a lot of activity lately and is a lot of fun!
I have some starting thoughts:
I think it would be really helpful to create a list and eventually a technical architectural diagram of some sort to depict all the pieces of software and how they fit into the picture. Possible data to include (for discussion):
Information that could be gleaned:
Potential principles (for group discussion):
Any interest? Any disagreements or further ideas? Want to have a PLP session and discuss?
(I also sent some version of this question to other related discussions, sorry for any cross-posting….)