Comments on: The real problem that my p2p/personal cloud wants to solve, and why it’s still necessary https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-real-problem-that-my-p2ppersonal-cloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.17 By: Marco Fioretti https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-real-problem-that-my-p2ppersonal-cloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-554591 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:22:50 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33576#comment-554591 In reply to Marco Fioretti.

oh, and in case you missed it… today the NSA itself is helping the percloud

]]> By: Marco Fioretti https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-real-problem-that-my-p2ppersonal-cloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-554568 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:41:39 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33576#comment-554568 To Matthew, and everybody else interested in this topic:

I just published a new, in-depth answer to the “Why not cozycloud” question on my blog: Cozy Cloud and percloud: a comparison

]]> By: Terence Fardner https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-real-problem-that-my-p2ppersonal-cloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-553938 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:35:40 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33576#comment-553938 Sounds like there’s a lot with clouds going on, but maybe there are too many things? I mean, there are companies springing up with every new marketed aspects of clouds. You get stuff like http://www.inforelay.com/ I guess, but I bet that there are more than enough novelty cloud companies.

]]> By: Marco Fioretti https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-real-problem-that-my-p2ppersonal-cloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-553725 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:04:05 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33576#comment-553725 In reply to Matthew Slater.

Hi Matthew, and thanks for your comment. However:

“Why not cozycloud?” was a FAQ since day 1. I also sent them a guest post for their blog 2 days ago to elaborate on that topic, now waiting for them to publish. Otherwise, I’ll publish it myself very soon, please follow @mfioretti_en on Twitter for the announcement.

With respect to “Perhaps you could work with them to document…”, I have to suggest you to please re-read this post and the percloud roadmap.

First, in order to do exactly what you suggest, I would still need funding. I simply cannot afford to do for free anything more than what I am already doing.

Secondly, doing what you suggest with my approach would be very similar to working against those projects. They all have much more ambitions than me, and that’s fine, but if they had any interest in my approach they would have already done or said so. Again, that’s not an accusation or critique from me.

Third, of course I will reuse as much as I can of their work, and they will be able to reuse whatever I produce. But if I did what you suggest I would not get anything done. Nothing I care about, that is. Which is to get something concretely usable, as quickly as possible, for the only use case I want to work on.

]]> By: Matthew Slater https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-real-problem-that-my-p2ppersonal-cloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-553640 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:47:19 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33576#comment-553640 I like what you are saying, and I don’t doubt that you could do some useful research, however starting a research project is not the strategy which best addresses the urgency you describe.
If you just discovered 4 closely related projects, perhaps some of them already know a lot of what you propose to research.
Have you heard of Cozycloud by the way?
Perhaps you could work with them to document and coordinate between them to reduce duplication of efforts, build up common libraries, help determine use-cases, keep the social networks informed of their progress. You could do this as little or as much as you are able.

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