Save Poddery.com campaign - looking for interested people
Praveen A
Hi,
I hope you all know about diaspora project to create a decentralized social network where users have privacy and control over their personal data. So far we have got the code in pretty good shape (basic features like sharing status, photos, hash tags and private messages are there). We still need to add some features like groups, events, albums, native apps for mobile phones etc to compete with the popular social networks there. Since there is no business interest in such an idea we are depending on people like you for everything (the project was started with direct financial contributions from people around the world and it is still run from people's contributions). The best contribution you can give is using it, because a social network is meaningless without people using it. You could either wait for your friends who may not care about privacy and freedoms to join or you can start using it right now like so many people around the world and make it compelling for your friends to join. You decide which is more likely and more important to you.
So that was a brief introduction about the diaspora project. This mail is in particular to introduce a new campaign we are starting to save an early diaspora pod (a pod is a server running diaspora software) poddery.com its current admin wants to stop running this service and a few of us from diaspora community is coming out to keep this service running at poddery.com we are going to run a fund raising campaign to raise enough funds to run it for an year on a good vps. You can also join us and help us. Are you good at promoting ideas? Can you write well? Are you a good designer? Can you design posters? Can you design a website? Can you shoot video? Can you edit video? Or simply can you share the news among your friends using any methods available to you? If you are interested get in touch with us on community mailing list at http://lists.fosscommunity.in we'll be meeting tonight at 10pm on irc to discuss the plan. So drop in if you want to join in or have some questions channel is #fosscommunity.in and server is irc.freenode.net if you are new to irc, you can access it via your web browser at http://webchat.freenode.net
Note 1: there are other ways to contribute too like packaging diaspora for debian, fedora etc let me know if you are interested. We meet every Sunday at 8pm on #debian-diaspora on irc.oftc.net for people new to irc, use mibbit.com
Note 2: if you are interested to contribute code directly, let me know too. Diaspora is built on ruby on rails framework. If there is some interest, we can organize workshops too.