Re: [GNU/consensus] A GNU Consensus for the GNU Year!

[hellekin (GNU Consensus)]

On 12/31/2012 09:32 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> 
> +1 looks like a great initiative
>
*** +12 so far, on the mailing list :)

> I very much look forward to testing interop.  May I suggest three points
> that can operate as a starting point.
> 
> 1. Someone in Project A wishes to friend someone in Project B
> 
> 2. Someone in Project B wishes to friend someone in Project A
> 
> 3. The two people, having established friendship, should be able to send
> each other a private message.
> 
> You will find that 90% of projects that claim to inteorp CANNOT do
> this.  Some will never be able to do it.  Let's quickly try towork out
> which projects are serious about interop, and for which, it is a
> marketing vehicle.
>
*** Excellent points, Melvin. Welcome!

I put our conversations of the other day on the LibrePlanet wiki:
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User_talk:Hellekin/A_Coder_Perspective_Of_GNU_Social

The plan is to register a GNU/consensus interest group on LibrePlanet.
as vector to distill the conversation of this list, and allow more
people to participate more easily. Then we can update the official
GNU/consensus website accordingly. What do you think?

> Also I am concerned about GNU favouring proprietary protocols, over
> existing web standards, or standards under creative commons. 
>
*** Of course, the GNU's mission is to foster user freedom. I contacted
the tent.io people earlier to start a discussion with them on that
topic, but didn't receive any response yet. I hope they're going to jump
on board, as well as Evan Prodromou, who's working on transition from
StatusNet to pump.io[1].

> free to MODIFY the protocols used?
> Will the license of the protocols used reflect that?
>
*** I, nor the GNU project, don't have any authority to determine what
licenses the protocols are using. We can only issue recommendations, and
hope the community cooperates toward these goals. Obviously, being part
of the GNU project makes it clear what we're looking for!

Cheers,

==
hk

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