[Chicago] GNU MediaGoblin campaign for federation and privacy in 2014!

Thu Mar 6 17:32:39 CET 2014

Thanks Joel, Jordan, :)

Thanks for the kind words and for pointing to the campaign.  It's been a
long time in prep, especially on that video... lots of Blender and
Python used in the making of that, a topic I've talked on before at ChiPy:
  http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html

Anyway, yes, anything people can do to donate or spread the word: hugely
appreciated.
  http://mediagoblin.org/news/help-spread-the-campaign.html

We're trying to do save-the-internet things here... that includes
working on a general purpose Python library I've thought of giving a
talk on at some point: http://pypump.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

... but I think I'm interested in giving that talk once the federation
stuff is actually working.

But speaking of, there are some talks I've thought of giving... maybe it
would make sense for me to give a ChiPy talk sometime soonish (next
month?  Possibly this month but that would be pushing it)... two talks
I'm interested in giving, if people are possibly interested in hearing them:
 - The Road Ahead for Network Freedom
 - XUDD: an actor model system built on top of asyncio:
   http://xudd.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Anyway, thanks ChiPy!  I hope to see Chicago again soon...
 - Chris

jordanb at hafd.org writes:

> Chris is also an old school Chipy guy who presenting here many times in
> the past. He's an incredibly solid guy and a good friend of many people
> on this list.
>
> Mediagoblin is a cool project and I'm really glad Chris is working on
> it. I contributed to the previous fundraiser and this one as well, and
> encourage everyone to do the same.
>
>
> On 03/05/2014 09:00 PM, eviljoel wrote:
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>> Hey All,
>> 
>> My friend Chris Webber is throwing another fundraiser for his open
>> source project MediaGoblin.  MediaGoblin is like a decentralized
>> YouTube.  The idea is, if YouTube gets taken down for whatever reason,
>> 1000s of cat videos will be lost.  If our media content is
>> decentralized, one take down order will have far less impact.  Also,
>> storing our media in a decentralized way makes it harder for the NSA
>> to spy on us.
>> 
>> Media Goblin is Chris's own project that he works on full time.  The
>> fundraiser is in collaboration with the Free Software Foundation and I
>> personally trust this guy, so you can be assured your donation will be
>> put to good use.  Donate here:  http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html
>> 
>> (Reasons this e-mail might be on topic:  Chris has spoken at Flourish,
>> our local Open Source Software conference.  MediaGoblin itself is free
>> and open source and is written in Python.)
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> eviljoel
>> 
>> 
>> - -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: 	GNU MediaGoblin campaign for federation and privacy in 2014!
>> Date: 	Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:20:47 -0500
>> From: 	Chris Webber <cwebber at gnu.org>
>> Reply-To: 	Chris Webber <cwebber at gnu.org>
>> To: 	Joel Luellwitz <eviljoel at linux.com>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I'm excited to announce that GNU MediaGoblin has launched our new
>> fundraising campaign. We've got a wonderful new video that I think
>> clearly explains our goals for the coming year... check it out
>> <http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html>!
>> 
>> Thanks to your support, this last year has been really excellent! We've
>> pushed out five major releases, and hosted six successful internships
>> through Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women. Plus, we began
>> integrating federation into the main GNU MediaGoblin codebase and making
>> a general purpose federation library called PyPump.
>> 
>> We want to make the coming year the year of /Getting GNU MediaGoblin in
>> the hands of the people/!
>> 
>> So we're asking for your help. We've partnered up again with the Free
>> Software Foundation <https://fsf.org>, and we've got a lot of cool
>> things planned: wrapping up federation support and releasing version
>> 1.0, adding new privacy features, podcast support, and making GNU
>> MediaGoblin even easier to run and deploy -- oh yeah!
>> 
>> We're offering some sweet rewards! Take a look
>> <http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html>.
>> 
>> Did I mention that since the FSF is a 501(c)(3) charity, your donations
>> are tax-deductible in the U.S.? This also means if your employer matches
>> charitable contributions, you have the option to magnify your donation
>> to GNU MediaGoblin! And finally, for folks who dig our work all year
>> round, we've set up monthly donations.
>> 
>> Thanks again for your help! /You/ make this possible!
>> 
>> Christopher Allan Webber,
>> GNU MediaGoblin lead developer
>> 
>> PS: Anything you can do to spread the word of the campaign REALLY helps!
>> Word of mouth from our supporters is the most effective way to get our
>> message out there, so if you can tell your family and friends, and post
>> to your blog or social networks... we'll be able to build the future of
>> the Web!
>> 
>> PPS: Thanks again! Seriously, you rock!
>> 
>> 
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