Hi Isaac. I've just subscribed to the p2p-hackers list and I'm reaching out to all the other groups and projects that have been mentioned. I've also been invited to post the PeerPoint proposal on the P2P Foundation Blog. The idea is to invite a wider community to crowdsource further evolution of the specs. I added an intro to the specs that I and others can easily email with the link to the full doc: Greets, p2p peeps!

PeerPoint is an evolving crowdsourced design specification for a suite of integrated peer-to-peer applications to include (but not limited to) social networking, real-time project collaboration, content management, database management, voting, trust/reputation metrics, complementary currency, crowd funding, etc. This specification overlaps with many existing p2p infrastructure and social networking projects but also goes substantially beyond anything yet existing. Members of other projects are encouraged to participate in further developing the open PeerPoint specs and to adopt any part of the specs that they can use.

To participate in developing this specification, please join the Next Net Google Group<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet>and read the PeerPoint topic.<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet/catpnppl-tI/lvPuIz3HYDgJ><https://groups.google.com/d/msg/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet/catpnppl-tI/lvPuIz3HYDgJ>

I am not actually trying to start another development project. PeerPoint is an open, high-level functional specification for where I think all the open p2p projects are eventually heading as a group. I want to get as many of those current projects as I can to participate in evolving the PeerPoint spec further and adding increasing levels of detail that are beyond my competence. Any suggestions? PR On Sunday, June 17, 2012 8:00:54 PM UTC-5, Isaac Wilder wrote:

Zooko Wilcox O'Hearn runs a mailing list called p2p-hackers, but it's more for protocol/network design. There's SecuShare, GNUnet, Tonika, and Sneer. All of which are existing projects in the space that could certainly use your help. I still do not understand the need for another separate project. Why not work with what's out there?

imw

On 06/17/2012 07:45 PM, Poor Richard wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions, Mark. I'll try to hook up with theglobalsquare folks. As for the P2P Foundation, they seem more interested in the movement and culture than the technology at the moment. I'm on their mail list and I'm curating a facebook group<https://www.facebook.com/groups/145538675490320/>for the p2p peeps there.

PR

On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 7:45:55 PM UTC-5, Mark Janssen-Rosenbluth wrote:

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On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Poor Richard wrote:

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BTW as far as I can tell, there is no online forum dedicated to the general topic of p2p application software architecture for free/open source software designers, developers, engineers, etc. Discussions of p2p architecture tend to be found mostly in the discussions of specific p2p networking projects like freenet and FreedomBox and they tend to apply to the lower-level network routing and file-sharing issues instead of the higher application software level for real-time, interactive collaboration. If anyone knows of a general p2p *application*architecture group or forum, please let me know.

(In case you don't know,) you might want to check out the

P2P-Foundation (which has a long-standing discussion on these topics) and theglobalsquare which is trying to implement same.

mark

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