From a085c1791893769ce41c2efb036b6cab41379ee5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Baines Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:00:50 +0000 Subject: Add new post --- posts/2nd-floss4p2p-workshop.mdwn | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+) create mode 100644 posts/2nd-floss4p2p-workshop.mdwn diff --git a/posts/2nd-floss4p2p-workshop.mdwn b/posts/2nd-floss4p2p-workshop.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd6de69 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/2nd-floss4p2p-workshop.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ + +[[!meta title="2nd FLOSS4P2P Workshop" ]] + +# 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: + +* +* Decentralised Sharing Protocol Group (link pending) +* +* +* + +## 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 + +* +* +* +* +* +* +* +* +* + +# 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. -- cgit v1.2.3