My understanding is that existing laws (in the US at least, presumably Australia too) force governments to treat your data more seriously if it is physically hosted in your home.
By not depending on a single hosting provider or a small number of hosting providers, and taking full advantage of federation features, we can make social networks more robust and difficult to attack. I would encourage everyone to take a look at the Freedom Box foundation. Maybe we could order a bunch of these for people interested, and help out with testing, documentation, etc. https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/ Cheers, Adam On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 10:06:43AM +1100, Kirsten Larsen wrote: > Hi people, > > FYI there's also another group of people discussing / thinking about this > and poss. of setting up decent trial in Melb, using social networks through > hub melbourne, collabforge, p2p foundation etc. Suggesting profile for > serversaurus or other hosting service if willing to sponsor. Are there > people on this list that would be interested in being part of this and/or > helping get it set up? > > I am not in Melbourne on 15th November (i think is next FSM meeting) but if > there is enthusiasm someone else could possibly come and talk about it > > Cheers > Kirsten > > On 25 October 2012 13:35, Adam Bolte <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:24:59PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Adam Bolte <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Not right now. I intend to attempt to setup my own pod very soon, and > > > > will likely discuss how it went at the next meet-up. > > > > > > Will you offer accounts to people here? > > > > It wasn't my intention. I just run my server off of my home ADSL > > connection, so uptime and uplink bandwidth are not > > ideal. Additionally, I'd want to take security more seriously than I > > currently am if offering such accounts. > > > > However, having said that I'd be happy to help out in setting up a pod > > for the Melbourne Free Software group if we could organise better > > hosting. > > > > > > > How difficult is it to migrate an account from one pod to another? > > > > Haven't tried. > > > > -Adam > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Free-software-melb mailing list > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Free-software-melb mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
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