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+# In Short
+
+I can't quite remember how I found out about it, but I ended up attending the
+2nd FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) for Peer to Peer workshop, and
+I am very glad that I made the effort.
+
+Things of particular note:
+
+* [Cozy](http://cozy.io/)
+* [remoteStorage](https://remotestorage.io/)
+
+# Detailed Account
+
+The variety of people in the room made it a very interesting event, I have
+found out about projects I had not heard of, and found out more about some
+projects which I already knew about.
+
+The first item on the agenda was a "participatory dynamic with open questions
+for debate" aka pose controversial/unspecific questions to the room, and have
+people just stand around and talk. While this did get people talking, the
+questions were not specific enough to be useful and any division in the room
+was mostly due to interpretation of the question.
+
+Interesting Links:
+
+* <http://hexayurt.com/>
+* Decentralised Sharing Protocol Group (link pending)
+* <https://fair.coop/>
+* <http://cozy.io/>
+* <http://webid.info/>
+
+## 2nd Day
+
+The second day started off with some very interested lightning talks. There
+were also some more in depth talks after lunch, and the day finished off with
+some several tutorials (run in parallel).
+
+More Interesting Links
+
+* <https://github.com/fedwiki>
+* <http://remotestorage.io/>
+* <https://github.com/remotestorage/starter-kit>
+* <https://www.w3.org/community/rww/>
+* <https://github.com/read-write-web/wiki/wiki>
+* <http://fed.wiki.org/>
+* <http://ipfs.io/>
+* <http://www.superglue.it/>
+* <https://www.trustroots.org/>
+
+# Conclusion
+
+In particular, Cozy caught my eye. I am usually critical of projects that
+appear to duplicate the functionality of others, and in this case, Cozy is very
+outwardly similar to ownCloud (which I currently use). However, internally Cozy
+looks to be built on better technologies (CouchDB and NodeJS rather than PHP
+and *SQL). There would probably be more key differences, if I understood the
+architecture of both projects better.
+
+I was also very interested in the remotestorage protocol. This might fit in
+well with a web application I have been developing for the University of
+Southampton.