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Speaking of which... mentioned on Slashdot today:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/governments-attack-cloud-computing

I suspect the US government would take the same stance against all
shared hosting providers. We have to make it easier for people to host
their data for themselves.

- -Adam

On 02/11/12 11:30, Adam Bolte wrote:
> 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
>>> 
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