Dutch students now have a remoteStorage account
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Michiel de Jong
May 25, 2012, 12:25:21 PM5/25/12
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Last week Omega in our IRC channel, and this Monday Gijs on stage at
TNC, were the first Dutch students to use remoteStorage with their
student accounts.
I just came back from a very interesting conference in Reykjavik (see
https://tnc2012.terena.org/web/media/archive/2A minute 26 for my
lightning talk, the Birds-of-a-Feather session was not recorded
afaik), where Francois and I announced the surfnet pilot to the NREN
community (that stands for National Research and Education Networks).
In the coming weeks, the actual Dutch institutes (universities and
colleges) will be informed officially about how this pilot is going to
work.
If you have an email address at a Dutch university, then you can fork
https://github.com/5apps/unhosted-tutorial (or just view it on
http://tutorial.unhosted.5apps.com), and it should work with your
student or staff email address as your remoteStorage user address. We
haven't finished yet adding all the domain names, but please let us
know what the domain of your email address is, and if it is an
institute that is part of surfnet, then we'll add it.
During the conference we also got interest from Switzerland, Greece
and Lithuania about the possibility of doing a similar pilot also for
the students and academics of these countries.
We also talked with Peter from Terena TF-Storage about bringing the
pilot to the European level, so that roughly everybody who now has an
EDUROAM account (i.e. is a student or staff member of some institute
that somehow falls inside Terena's scope) would also instantly have a
(small, at first) remoteStorage account.
This is quite significant because it basically accomplishes 50% of the
goal of the Unhosted project: We now have an egg (many users), so we
just need a chicken (useful apps), and we're done. :)
On the roadmap this also completes the 2-week 'surfnet' sprint; the
next two weeks i'll be working on all our pending client-side library
improvements. https://github.com/unhosted/website/wiki/Sprints
A big thanks to Francois who has been putting in a lot of time to get
the pilot read for this week's presentation, much of which outside his
normal surfnet working hours, and in doing so also very rapidly became
one of our leading experts about all the details, design choices and
security considerations of remoteStorage as a protocol stack.
And of course thanks to all the other people involved at surfnet and
terena, for acknowledging the potential of our project and giving us a
chance to establish a meaningful base of end-users.
Have a nice weekend!
Michiel
TNC, were the first Dutch students to use remoteStorage with their
student accounts.
I just came back from a very interesting conference in Reykjavik (see
https://tnc2012.terena.org/web/media/archive/2A minute 26 for my
lightning talk, the Birds-of-a-Feather session was not recorded
afaik), where Francois and I announced the surfnet pilot to the NREN
community (that stands for National Research and Education Networks).
In the coming weeks, the actual Dutch institutes (universities and
colleges) will be informed officially about how this pilot is going to
work.
If you have an email address at a Dutch university, then you can fork
https://github.com/5apps/unhosted-tutorial (or just view it on
http://tutorial.unhosted.5apps.com), and it should work with your
student or staff email address as your remoteStorage user address. We
haven't finished yet adding all the domain names, but please let us
know what the domain of your email address is, and if it is an
institute that is part of surfnet, then we'll add it.
During the conference we also got interest from Switzerland, Greece
and Lithuania about the possibility of doing a similar pilot also for
the students and academics of these countries.
We also talked with Peter from Terena TF-Storage about bringing the
pilot to the European level, so that roughly everybody who now has an
EDUROAM account (i.e. is a student or staff member of some institute
that somehow falls inside Terena's scope) would also instantly have a
(small, at first) remoteStorage account.
This is quite significant because it basically accomplishes 50% of the
goal of the Unhosted project: We now have an egg (many users), so we
just need a chicken (useful apps), and we're done. :)
On the roadmap this also completes the 2-week 'surfnet' sprint; the
next two weeks i'll be working on all our pending client-side library
improvements. https://github.com/unhosted/website/wiki/Sprints
A big thanks to Francois who has been putting in a lot of time to get
the pilot read for this week's presentation, much of which outside his
normal surfnet working hours, and in doing so also very rapidly became
one of our leading experts about all the details, design choices and
security considerations of remoteStorage as a protocol stack.
And of course thanks to all the other people involved at surfnet and
terena, for acknowledging the potential of our project and giving us a
chance to establish a meaningful base of end-users.
Have a nice weekend!
Michiel
Sebastian Kippe
May 25, 2012, 12:31:37 PM5/25/12
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Great news – congratulations!
Jan-Christoph Borchardt
May 25, 2012, 12:57:21 PM5/25/12
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This is exciting! The last 2 days I was at LinuxTag with ownCloud
(before that at SIGINT) and people are more and more interested in
unhosted architecture. This is a big step in many ways, regarding user
base, viability test & proof and for the freedom of and on the web.
As for the chicken, I currently work on putting remoteStorage.js / the
syncer in some great open source localStorage apps there are. This we
wanted to do last year, and now it is really easy enough so that even
I can do it. If you have or know an open source localStorage app, just
follow the instructions at
https://github.com/unhosted/todomvc/blob/master/README.md and you’re
set.
On the wiki page at
https://github.com/unhosted/website/wiki/State-of-the-movement there
is a waiting list of apps to be unhosted. If you would like to help
out or know more apps, feel free to add, unhost or contact me here or
in our #unhosted channel on freenode. :)
(before that at SIGINT) and people are more and more interested in
unhosted architecture. This is a big step in many ways, regarding user
base, viability test & proof and for the freedom of and on the web.
As for the chicken, I currently work on putting remoteStorage.js / the
syncer in some great open source localStorage apps there are. This we
wanted to do last year, and now it is really easy enough so that even
I can do it. If you have or know an open source localStorage app, just
follow the instructions at
https://github.com/unhosted/todomvc/blob/master/README.md and you’re
set.
On the wiki page at
https://github.com/unhosted/website/wiki/State-of-the-movement there
is a waiting list of apps to be unhosted. If you would like to help
out or know more apps, feel free to add, unhost or contact me here or
in our #unhosted channel on freenode. :)
Michiel de Jong
May 25, 2012, 1:52:30 PM5/25/12
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On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt
<h...@jancborchardt.net> wrote:
> As for the chicken
:D
Great!
<h...@jancborchardt.net> wrote:
> As for the chicken
:D
Great!
Thad Guidry
May 25, 2012, 3:40:33 PM5/25/12
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This is quite significant because it basically accomplishes 50% of the
goal of the Unhosted project: We now have an egg (many users), so we
just need a chicken (useful apps), and we're done. :)
You do realize that it has already been scientifically PROVEN that the chicken did come before the egg, right ? I guess LibreDocs qualifies somewhat. My sandwiches are probably getting soggy and moldy by now ;)
-Thad
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/thad_guidry
Thad Guidry
May 25, 2012, 3:44:31 PM5/25/12
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ooh, almost forgot... reach out to state.it guys
https://state.it/about/people to test storage of their users opinions ?
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