P2P Hospitality initiatives and proposals
This is a directory to various P2P Hospitality initiatives and proposals. There is a philosophical overview elsewhere.
3M's Brainstorming notes
Midsch, Mahouni2000 and Matrixpoint have been brainstorming about decentralization and privacy solutions for the past 6 months (as of 10/2009). A few more pages may appear here summarizing our explorations, including links to many resources. Our goal was to make use of existing systems, but we haven't yet found a ready-to-deploy solution. Thus, more work needs to be done. (The less, the better.) Very briefly, we see three main areas of technical activity to pursue:
- Customize Noserub (or Drupal or BuddyPress or whatever) for localized or special-interest hospex communities, packaging it so that is very easy to deploy.
- Encourage sub-communities within the big social sites like Facebook, perhaps by developing custom apps for them.
- Develop a decentralized (P2P) trust/search network. (A Java-based solution is under development. More info later.)
Some non-technical areas to explore are:
- Universal standards or guidelines for trust, safety, and privacy.
- What constitutes an identity/reputation in the virtual world?