diaspora* - the next 12 months
goob
Public
Seen by 179
Big congratulations and thanks to everyone who's been part of the way diaspora* has grown as a community-run project over the past 12 months.
I thought now would be a good time to start discussing where we feel the project, the software and the network should be in 12 months' time, and how we might set about getting there.
Look forward to reading everyone's thoughts on this, the exciting next step in the journey.
Maciek Łoziński Sat 14 Sep 2013 9:34PM
From what I've noticed, top development priorities are:
1. fixing federation
2. pod migration
3. api
Justin Moore Sat 14 Sep 2013 11:20PM
@macieklozinski Sounds about right to me. I suppose most people are happy on the pods they currently use so maybe migration can be second. Those three points are spot on if you ask me.
faust twi Fri 20 Sep 2013 4:25PM
Justin Moore, are you kidding? two biggest pods have real trouble with tags. i would like to migrate but i don't want to create 3rd account.
goob Fri 20 Sep 2013 5:50PM
Well, I assume Justin Moore's point 4: 'Profit' was a joke...
Flaburgan Fri 20 Sep 2013 10:29PM
@goob, absolutely not, I think this is really important. Profit is probably not the good term, but I think having no business model is one reason of the diaspora inc fail. After the crowdfunding, they didn't think about How to make money with diaspora (at least, I'm not aware if they did). Result? July 2011, no more money. And shortly after, no more development. So profitable is maybe not the word, but if we have real hopes in diaspora*, we surely have to think about earn money to pay developers.
goob Sat 21 Sep 2013 10:09AM
As Diaspora has just been properly established as a not-for-profit project, I'd say it's not a good term. A means of getting an income stream in order to pay for development and other resources, well that is something very different!
Flaburgan Sat 21 Sep 2013 10:14PM
I think it's just about words, the idea is clear for everyone :)
Anish Sheela Sun 22 Sep 2013 4:07PM
I would like to think of how mozilla does it, or wikipedia does it.
Flaburgan Sun 22 Sep 2013 10:06PM
Well, mozilla has one big contract with Google being the default search engine in Firefox. It's 300 millions dollars per year. And wikipedia ask for donation every year in december.
Jason Robinson · Sat 14 Sep 2013 4:23PM
Just replaced our old ajax pull at work with a separate Node.js relay server. It's so awesome. Instant push of notifications to connected clients and they have to make no effort at all. Node.js rocks :) Will try to make a copy of this idea as a proposal in the wiki later..