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

[David Rorex]

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
>
>
>
>
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