[P2P-F] Substance - decentralized document platform

Mon Sep 12 13:19:00 CEST 2011

Perhaps Michael should present his project to ContactCon, for a potential
award?

The only thing we can do is help promote the project, when it is available ?

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Chris Pinchen <chrispinchen at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Michael, the guy behind Substance http://substance.io/ contacted
> ChokePoint Project about his project. Maybe somebody on the list will be
> interested, so here's the email he sent:
>
> I'm working on Substance since ~ October last year. Until now, I'm working
> on the core, which is essentially a web-based document editor. However
> eventually Substance isn't intended to be just an editor (we have those
> already... Google Docs et al.) but an open publishing platform allowing
> authors to get read by the right audience, while ensuring readers get what
> they need and nothing they don't. That's in anticipation of the information
> overload problem ;)
>
> Okay and there's another important demand in the long run. Privacy &
> Anti-censorship. Document's shouldn't be hosted at a single server but in a
> decentralized environment. Substance uses CouchDB in the backend, which
> means it's prepared to operate in a decentralized operation mode, where many
> Substance-nodes can co-exist and replicate with each other.
>
> So I just wanted to ask you, if you'd see Substance fit in the context of
> the ChokePoint Project. Substance hasn't received any kind of funding yet,
> and I'm watching out for any kind of supporters and potential users. And
> that's not only because I'm going to go bankrupt in... i mean like.. now! ;)
>
> Cheers
>
> -- Michael
>
>
>
>
> *Chris Pinchen*
> http://cataspanglish.com
> http://twitter.com/cataspanglish
>
>
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