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OSCON Proposed Talk: Software Freedom in an Online World: Identity Management and Data and Service Portability

spadkins — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:03:11 -0700

Title:

Software Freedom in an Online World: Identity Management and Data and
Service Portability

Description:

As no-cost proprietary service providers on the internet proliferate
and their adoption increases, it is important for Free Software
advocates to understand the new challenges to Software Freedom.
A background of the economic, social, privacy, and ethical issues will be given.
Details of new trends, movements, and projects will be described
to explain what is happening and how to get involved.

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Declarations of Online Rights

spadkins — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:22:26 -0700

Declarations of Online Rights

The following are links to documents which make declarations about users' rights online.

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The Cyberspace Charter of Rights, by Stephen Downes in 1999

spadkins — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:47:21 -0700

The CyberSpace Charter of Rights

I recently came across this CyberSpace Charter of Rights by Stephen Downes, dated from 1999. It seems quite appropriate for the present day. And it would appear we have made little progress in the right direction.

http://www.downes.ca/post/184

I copied the body of the Charter below in case the original should ever disappear. However, the additional commentary at the original location is also quite useful.

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Installing a Drupal Website: The Beginnings of Setting Up the SharedUniverse Software

spadkins — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:25:08 -0700

The first step to setting up the SharedUniverse software is to set up Drupal. I plan to document this with my own set of screencasts, showing how to set up the specific modules which are used to give Drupal all of the features shown here. Meanwhile I found the following website which shows how to set up a simpler installation of Drupal.

http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/01/12/how-to-create-a-web-site-using-drupal-1/

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An Economy of Sharing

spadkins — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:34:25 -0700

Overview

Free Software gives rise to unprecedented economic realities and possibilities. For the first time in history, significant amounts of economic value are able to be created with near zero variable cost. Software is essentially free to duplicate and run, and it can dramatically benefit its users. This raises new possibilities for the advancement of human good if a way can be made to pay the fixed costs and produce the software in the first place.

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Likeminded Organizations

spadkins — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:34:32 -0700

The following are organizations, projects, and websites which seem to be like-minded with the SharedUniverse Project in the pursuit of users' freedom.

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Google Working on a Free (Freedom) Social Network Aggregation Service

spadkins — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:28:14 -0700

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2007/08/18/GoogleWorkingOnSocialNetworkAggregator.aspx
http://valleywag.com/tech/brad-fitzpatrick/livejournal-creator-leaves-as-six-apart-fails-to-spin-286218.php
http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/
http://groups.google.com/group/social-network-portability

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Definitions

spadkins — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:11:56 -0700

Online Computing Freedom - Online Computing Freedom is the ability to choose and change your service provider(s) of virtual world services at will, to take all of your data with you, and to modify or retract the data you have entered from non-favorable service providers. An increase in user freedom means increasing the power of the users and decreasing the power of the service providers. A user who is enjoying Online Computing Freedom is not locked-in to or constrained by a service provider to which he has entrusted some of his data.

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SharedUniverse : Developers' Guide

spadkins — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:24:27 -0700

Documentation Overview

The documentation of the SharedUniverse Project is primarily in four books maintained online at shareduniverse.net.

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SharedUniverse : Administrators' Guide

spadkins — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:22:29 -0700

The following pages will increasingly contain all of the information necessary to install, configure, and operate the SharedUniverse software.

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SharedUniverse : Users' Guide

spadkins — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:20:21 -0700

The following pages will increasingly contain all of the information necessary to use the SharedUniverse software.

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Mission

spadkins — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:37:30 -0700

Our Mission

The mission of the SharedUniverse project is to protect and enhance each person's Online Computing Freedom in the Virtual World by doing the following:

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SharedUniverse : Project

spadkins — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:35:36 -0700

The Mission of the SharedUniverse Project

The mission of the SharedUniverse project is to protect and enhance each person's Online Computing Freedom in the Virtual World.

What Problems Are We Trying to Solve?

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