# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1377035423 14400
# Node ID 6e3ad30ca2a491f6c8e50d5315cb1fac94b4ec9c
# Parent  600bd4667993a46339c2d982eac7252af78f077c
bring server.org into thoughts.

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+#+TITLE: Server Culture
+#+AUTHOR: Robert McIntyre, Dylan Holmes
+#+EMAIL:     rlm@mit.edu
+#+SETUPFILE: ../../aurellem/org/setup.org
+#+INCLUDE:   ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org
+#+MATHJAX: align:"left" mathml:t path:"http://www.aurellem.org/MathJax/MathJax.js"
+
+* Purpose
+
+- To empower users by providing free (libre), secure, user-friendly,
+  personal servers.
+- To create software that capitalizes on the personal server model;
+  for example, personal e-mail servers, file serving and transfer.  
+- To provide intuitive and transparent web interfaces for configuration.
+- To promote a culture of computer literacy in general and personal
+  servers in particular by writing modular
+  free applications with friendly interfaces, transparent configurability,
+  and lucid documentation.
+
+* VPS Service
+
+- Encrypted storage
+- Domain registration
+- Backup service
+- Software bundles
+
+- Hardware
+- Pricing
+
+* Web interface
+
+- Server configuration
+- Package management
+- File management
+- Web terminal
+
+* Modules
+  These could have user friendly locations as subdomains of the main
+  domain that each person would already have (such as
+  mail.example.com, video.example.com)
+  
+- user managament -- to give other people access to files, etc. 
+- E-mail
+- File sharing
+- Social media (e.g. via RSS feeds)
+
+* Brain stoming notes
+  
+  - What about small busineses?  They are also entities that need
+    privacy and control over their own information. There's still no
+    really good way to get up and going as a small business with little
+    computer ability.
+    
+  - Bitcoin --- people could store their wallets on their own servers
+    and always have access to money.
+
+  - Backups --- this should be taught to people and made extremely easy.
+
+  - Legal issues -- should encrypt the server's hard drive
+    automatically.
+
+  - Identity -- using openid or something, people can finally have an
+    online presence on the web.
+    
+  - Privacy -- one peoblem with proxy sites or VPNs is that they are
+    only as good as the company's word that they won't keep logs. If
+    people could somehow use their own servers as a VPN or proxy, they
+    they could ENSURE that no logs are kept.
+
+  - If people have servers running all the time, they could donate
+    hard drive space and CPU power to worthy causes in addition to
+    money. (for example, consider donating hosting power to a favorite
+    comic). 
+
+  - Back up your personal files to your server.
+