Re: The Case for the Federated Social Web

cool! i added my reasons, or at least the ones i could think of.

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net> wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> So, one thing I've always liked about the Open Source Initiative is that it
> included on its main pages a case for Open Source software for various
> audiences -- end users, developers, and businesses.
>
> I'm not sure what happened to all the cases, but at least the case for
> business is still there:
>
> http://www.opensource.org/advocacy/case_for_business.php
>
> I wonder: could we put together a case for the federation model for
> different constituencies?
>
> I've started three pages on the wiki to collect arguments for each group:
>
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Case_for_individuals
>
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Case_for_business
>
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Case_for_developers
>
> It'd be great to start pulling together our various reasons for supporting
> federation into documents targeted at these audiences.
>
> Also: is there another audience we should be targeting? Government?
>
> -Evan
>

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