👽 Lee Tusman

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Mapping The Cloud Commune

22 Oct 2017

One-minute read

Cloud Commune workshop ideas

Historical

  • webrings
  • BBS
  • FidoNet - linked bbs systems at night during cheap phone rates
  • ECHO - East Coast HangOut - built by Stacy Horn
  • Forums

Paradigm of Academia/Military inventing the internet vs hobbyist/community-networks

  • We discuss military/arpanet-via universities but leave out the hobbyist community from the history
  • Community Memory, Usenet, FIDO, ECHO

Examples of community networks

Current explorations

  • Beaker browser

distributed Social Media

  • Rotonde
  • Mastadon

Distributed web community

Mozilla NSF

  • Challenge 1 - prototype off-the-grid internet - how to provide needed info/etc/apps? (maps? resources. a simple messaging app, etc) during disasters
  • Challenge 2 - Smart Community Networks Challenge - how can we leverage existing physical or network infrastructure to provide high-quality wireless connectivity to communities in need
    • how can you be scrappy and build something scalable

Considerations

  • technical feasibility
  • differentiation
  • affordability
  • social impact
  • scalability

2 stages

  • Design Concept Stage
  • Working Prototype Stage