Freeing the Cloud, one (small) service at a time

Introducing Libravatar, a new project to provide an open and federated alternative to the centralized Gravatar avatar hosting service.

Debconf 10: http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule///////events/682.en.html

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1. freeing the cloud one (small) service at a time François Marier <francois@debian.org>
3. (not exactly to scale)
5. security privacy
6. autonomy control
7. FOSS on the server?
9. using webservice != copy
11. “if you modify the Program, your modified version must offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version from a network server at no charge”
12. 2. link to the source code 1. link to the license
13. So we've got the tools: FOSS server stack Affero GPL Free browsers Web 2.0 frameworks
14. But where to start?
17. Finding a small one to start with...
19. 1. upload photo 2. assign to email address
21. Gravatar 101
22. FMarier@GMail.com
23. fmarier@gmail.com
24. f52a1d3d8c39868fc92cf70828821635
25. http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ f52a1d3d8c39868fc92cf70828821635.jpg
26. <img src=”http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ f52a1d3d8c39868fc92cf70828821635.jpg”>
27. <img src=”http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ f52a1d3d8c39868fc92cf70828821635.jpg”>
28. So, we've got some tools and a service to replace... What's next?
31. “80%” of what does protected accounts
32. “80%” of what does G / PG / X ratings XMLRPC API
33. use the same API be a Twitter client must fit into the world
35. use the same API be a Gravatar client must fit into the world
36. use the same API http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ f52a1d3d8c39868fc92cf70828821635.jpg http://www.libravatar.org/avatar/ f52a1d3d8c39868fc92cf70828821635.jpg
37. be a Gravatar client redirect to Gravatar if avatar is missing
38. Now, how about making it better?
39. Federation via DNS TXT v=avatars http://avatars.debian.net TXT v=avatars http://avatars.gmail.com
40. Creative Commons licenses for avatar images SHA1 and SHA256 as hashing algorithms both http and https support automatic photo importers (Identica, Gravatar, ...) More ideas
41. What does it look like?
42. Apache / nginx (mod_rewrite) Django static files on disk avatars sent to third parties photos uploaded or imported by users
43. Live demo!
44. Get involved! launchpad.net/libravatar #libravatar on chat.freenode.net
45. ideas for Libravatar? other easy services to replace? Questions?
46. Photo credits Storm clouds: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnson7/1460568819/