[sudoroom] Fwd: Announcement: Diaspora* Will Now Be A Community Project

[Anca Mosoiu]

I think they all got some nice jobs building capitalist software.

But this could be a good opportunity to continue w/ the project.

Anca.


On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM, David Rorex <drorex at gmail.com> wrote:

> Summary: "We are giving up on Diaspora"
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan at oaklandlocal.com>wrote:
>
>> *From:* "Daniel Grippi" <daniel at joindiaspora.com>
>> *Date:* August 27, 2012 2:23:06 PM PDT*
>> Subject:* *Announcement: Diaspora* Will Now Be A Community Project**
>> *
>>
>> *Dear Community,
>>
>> We have been overwhelmed with your support the past week after our
>> annoucnment of Makr.io and the opening up of signups on joindiasporacom<https://joindiaspora.com/>.
>>  This week, we are excited to share with you some important Diaspora
>> announcements.
>>
>> When we started Diaspora two years ago, the project kicked off with
>> amazing reception and support from people that believed in our ultimate
>> goal: giving users ownership over their data. It's a powerful idea, one
>> that captured the imaginations of millions of people across the world. This
>> vision has expanded and evolved over the past two years that we have been
>> working on it as the project has grown.
>>
>> Diaspora* began when we were still at NYU—just four guys trying to
>> scratch our own itch. We had an idea about how social networks could work
>> in a new and exciting way. We intended to be done over the course of a
>> summer, and with an expected budget of $10,000 from our Kickstarter
>> campaign. The reception of this idea was so good that we managed to reach
>> 20 times the expected amount in donations, and the project expanded to
>> cover far more than just a summer. It's been over two years now, and we are
>> proud of what Diaspora has become.
>>
>> Today, the network has grown into thousands of people using our software
>> in hundreds of installations across the web. There are hundreds of pods
>> that have been created by community members, and it has become one of the
>> biggest Github projects to date. It has been translated to almost fifty
>> languages, with hundreds of developers worldwide contributing back to the
>> project.
>>
>> Diaspora has grown into something more than just a project four guys
>> started in their office at school. It is bigger than any one of us, the
>> money we raised, or the code we have written. It has developed into
>> something that people all over the world care about and are inspired by.
>>  We think the time is right to reflect this reality, and put our code where
>> our hearts lie.
>>
>> Today, we are giving control of Diaspora to the community.
>>
>> As a Free Software social project, we have an obligation to take this
>> project further, for the good of the community that revolves around it.
>> Putting the decisions for the project’s future in the hands of the
>> community is one of the highest benefits of any FOSS project, and we’d like
>> to bring this benefit to our users and developers. We still will remain as
>> an important part this community as the founders, but we want to make sure
>> we are including all of the people who care about Diaspora and want to see
>> it succeed well into the future.
>>
>> If you look around, you’ll see that we’ve made an effort to open up to
>> the community more to help better serve it. We’ve opened up our Pivotal
>> Tracker for community developers help join in (You can sign up here<https://groups.googlecom/d/topic/diaspora-dev/SSmAmVP0F_c/discussion>),
>> we’ve launched a tool that deploys one-click installations to the Heroku
>> app hosting service, and we’ve updated joindiaspora.com to be more
>> community-centric, showcasing other pods a user can join.
>>
>> This will not be an immediate shift over. Many details still need to be
>> stepped through. It is going to be a gradual process to open up more and
>> more to community governance over time. The goal is to make this an
>> entirely community-driven and community-run project. Sean Tilley, our Open
>> Source Community Manager will spearhead community efforts to see that this
>> happens.  Stay tuned to our blog <http://blog.diasporafoundation.org/>for a message from Sean concerning next steps, as well as ways to get
>> involved in helping with the transition process.
>>
>> This is a new opportunity for Diaspora to grow further than ever before.
>>  We can’t wait to see what we can do together.
>>
>> Daniel and Maxwell
>>
>>
>> PS. We also want to give special thanks to a few people who recently, and
>> over the past few years, have shown us what a special community we have. It
>> is by no means complete:
>> Mr ZYX, sean tilley, David Morley, Jan-Christoph Borchardt, Joe Braun,
>> David Morley, Hans Fase, Florian Staudacher, Movilla, Stephan Schulz, Sarah
>> Mei, Tom Scott, kinky joe, denschub, justin thomas, Steven Hancock, Diasp,
>> Jason Robinson
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://email.joindiaspora.com/u/aD0wZGE5ODEzMmRmNjljOTY1OGZjNWEyYzUyYjAzYjE2NiZyPWVkZGFuJTQwZWRkYW4uY29tJm09NTdlJmQ9NjUyNQ
>> *
>>
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