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[till]

Pong!

Anyone home?

[Marian Dörk]

Hello everybody,

thanks for subscribing to the Atomique mailing list and, please,
excuse the delay for any ping.. uhm feedback here. While Atomique is
prototypical, alpha and totally buggy, i think it is a starting point
for decentralized photo sharing.

Before we get it going I have some questions for you people so we
know what we are up to and where we can go together. If you wish,
please, answer some/all of the following questions:

What is your background?
What motivates you/catches your attention in terms of Atomique?
What do you think should be the immediate next steps for Atomique?
What kind of rough/general ideas do you have for Atomique?
How could and would you participate?

To make a good impression i am going to start:

> What is your background?

I am studying Computational Visualistics in Magdeburg, Germany.
During a 5 months internship at the Web Research Center at the
Universidad de Chile in Santiago i have started working on the idea
of decentralizing photo sharing and Atomique. Even though my name may
suggest otherwise, i am male.

> What motivates you/catches your attention in terms of Atomique?

Well, what motivates me was and is on the one hand sharing,
annotation, and community as shown by sites like Flickr and
Del.icio.us and on the other hand the empowerment of the users to
control the software they use and the content they create.

> What do you think should be the immediate next steps for Atomique?

Atomique should get more robust for general use apart from creating
new features. Joining groups should get easier. It should be possible
to react with a photo to another user's photo using trackback. Just
like conventional blogs should be able to send trackbacks. Also, it
would be cool to do some basic geocoding.

> What kind of rough/general ideas do you have for Atomique?

Some ideas that i find important and interesting

- single sign-on (OpenID), avatars
- different types of visibility (access management)
- machine or triple tags
- integration with Flickr & Co. on a per user basis also in terms of
groups
- different media types (videos, bookmarks, …)

> How could and would you participate?

I am happy to code, but also conceptualize and discuss ;)

I am looking forward to hearing from you!

Cheers,
Marian

[Antonio Tapiador del Dujo]

Hello! This is my introduction:

> What is your background?

I'm a Ph.D student at Technical University of Madrid. My research interests
include decentralized social software (DSS), free / open source software, the
web, learning, social networks, fractals and chaos ;-)

> What motivates you/catches your attention in terms of Atomique?

It's a tool for DSS. I'm focusing on that for my thesis.
I'm building a tool for DSS, which includes photos management [1].

I think both tools could interoperate.

> What do you think should be the immediate next steps for Atomique?

I would implement OpenID support.

> What kind of rough/general ideas do you have for Atomique?

I think OpenID is very important for DSS, as it provides users with digital
identity. I've recently presented a contribution about this [2].

I also think you should take a look to AtomPub [3]. People from Trackback got
that way.

> How could and would you participate?

- Discussing about DSS
- Interoperate play with my tool

Cheers!

[1] http://rubyforge.org/projects/move
[2] http://socialsoftwareecscw07.wikispaces.com/Distributed+Social+Software
[3] http://bitworking.org/projects/atom/

> - different media types (videos, bookmarks, ...)

[Till Westermayer]

Hello,

> What is your background?

I'm a sociologist, working at my PhD at the University of Freiburg.
I'm interested in STS (Science and technologies studies) and CMC
(computer mediated communication) and also the free/open source
software movement, e-democracy etc.

> What motivates you/catches your attention in terms of Atomique?

I found Atomique after I wrote a critical article about social
software that discusses the limitations of centralized social software
at the example of Flickr, following the recent Flickr crisis. The
article (only in German) is here:
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25536/1.html

Regarding the development of Atomique, I'm more an interested lurker
than an active developer, I guess.

> What do you think should be the immediate next steps for Atomique?

Uh, I don't know -- but I'd say fixed communication
protocolls/standards, so that people can begin to use it for real
relatively soon without fear of future incompatibilities.

> What kind of rough/general ideas do you have for Atomique?

Should be something that works fully decentralized as well as coupled
with bigger sites, so that not every user has to use his/her own website.

> How could and would you participate?

Thinks I can do principally is locking at it from an usability
perspective, testing it, promoting it. But actually, I'm very low with
free time at the moment, so I'm not so sure how much I can really do
in the next time.

Regards,

Till
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[Marianne]

Hello!

First, let me just say I'm SO happy this project exists! I guess the
recent Flickr censorship fiasco burst my bubble that I could happily
have online "relationships" that are managed big corporations who
couldn't care less about their customers. This is just what the world
needs! :)

> What is your background?

I studied Physics but work in a small IT firm in Gran acanaria, Spain.
I do mostly html, css, templating kind of work with some translating
and designing on the side. I like to think I have "common sense" and
sometimes write our "manuals" and such.

> What motivates you/catches your attention in terms of Atomique?

Freedom from being hostage to one corporation and their idea of what
we should be doing. I have photos at Flickr that I could delete
without a second thought, because I have them all saved, but that's
not true of comments and networking that those photos have given rise
to. I will be moving elsewhere, but I fera that the same can happen
while one company can think that it's too hard for you to move away.
Besides, I use open software myself - and often it's of higher quality
than some commercial stuff.

> What do you think should be the immediate next steps for Atomique?

Releasing a usable version that people can use. Even better, install
it somewhere where people can "host" their accounts so they don't
necesarily have to have access to a server or the knowledge to install
this.

> What kind of rough/general ideas do you have for Atomique?

The basic idea looks great to me. :)
I *think* didn't see any mentions of internationalization. While I
think languages is a low priority thing I think it often pays to think
of it from the start, so no painful reforms are needed later.

> How could and would you participate?

I'm not a programmer but I can probably help with softer stuff like
html, css, translations to Spanish, making templates,... And of
course, I'd love to test it ...and promote it as soon as that's
appropriate!

Thank you for this wonderful initiative!

Marianne