Fwd: [fcf_discussion] Re: Fwd: <nettime> Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can’t Find You
Dear Sepp, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Osiris given the remark here below, perhaps worth presenting to our audience? Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paolo Brini <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:33 PM Subject: [fcf_discussion] Re: Fwd: <nettime> Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can’t Find You To: [email protected] Yes, various groups around the world use Osiris to keep indestructible "web sites" without servers and without the www. I have been personally involved in spreading Osiris in various communities. It is a project which was thought 5 years ago. The software is a CMS simple to use, allows to create forum, blogs and other portals, and is used with success since years ago by bittorrent communities and activists in hostile environments. A portal created with Osiris is almost indestructible, since it is duplicated in its entirety on all nodes which share, in a p2p protocol, that portal. After a long debate, the authors have decided that Osiris will be soon released under GPL (it is closed source right now and this is interpreted as a major fault). Today Osiris has been cited by the 2nd most read italian newspaper (1st online) and this could help its diffusion. People in Osiris are also in the NeuMon (the most powerful Net Neutrality monitor I have ever seen - Herdict is a tiny toy in comparison) project and are also the people who invented a working system to make domain names seizures by USA ICE/ICANN/VeriSign/Afilias ineffective (currently the system is up and running with success on airvpn). Ciao, Paolo Il 23/02/2011 14:19, mazzetta ha scritto:
Il 23/02/2011 13:38, Dmytri Kleiner ha scritto:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:13:09 +0000, Smári McCarthy<[email protected]> wrote:
I think what's missing here is the point that freedom requires infrastructure. [A point I know Dmytri is well aware of, which makes this conversation confuse me...]
what about Osiris?
http://osiris.kodeware.net/ http://osiris.kodeware.net/index.php?lang=en It seems a pretty interesting step towards decentralization
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Looks good Michel, I have prepared a post and scheduled it for 2 March. Sepp "The individual is supreme and finds the way through intuition" http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/ http://www.laleva.org http://blog.hasslberger.com/ http://www.facebook.com/hasslberger http://twitter.com/healthsupreme . On Feb 25, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
Dear Sepp,
see http://p2pfoundation.net/Osiris
given the remark here below, perhaps worth presenting to our audience?
Michel
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paolo Brini <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:33 PM Subject: [fcf_discussion] Re: Fwd: <nettime> Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can’t Find You To: [email protected]
Yes, various groups around the world use Osiris to keep indestructible "web sites" without servers and without the www.
I have been personally involved in spreading Osiris in various communities. It is a project which was thought 5 years ago. The software is a CMS simple to use, allows to create forum, blogs and other portals, and is used with success since years ago by bittorrent communities and activists in hostile environments. A portal created with Osiris is almost indestructible, since it is duplicated in its entirety on all nodes which share, in a p2p protocol, that portal.
After a long debate, the authors have decided that Osiris will be soon released under GPL (it is closed source right now and this is interpreted as a major fault).
Today Osiris has been cited by the 2nd most read italian newspaper (1st online) and this could help its diffusion. People in Osiris are also in the NeuMon (the most powerful Net Neutrality monitor I have ever seen - Herdict is a tiny toy in comparison) project and are also the people who invented a working system to make domain names seizures by USA ICE/ICANN/VeriSign/Afilias ineffective (currently the system is up and running with success on airvpn).
Ciao, Paolo
Il 23/02/2011 14:19, mazzetta ha scritto:
Il 23/02/2011 13:38, Dmytri Kleiner ha scritto:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:13:09 +0000, Smári McCarthy<[email protected]> wrote:
I think what's missing here is the point that freedom requires infrastructure. [A point I know Dmytri is well aware of, which makes this conversation confuse me...]
what about Osiris?
http://osiris.kodeware.net/ http://osiris.kodeware.net/index.php?lang=en It seems a pretty interesting step towards decentralization
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