[MG] Mapping Participation in Drupal

[Ed Pastore]

I have to admit that I've been struggling to follow this thread. Long  
posts with lots of technical detail are practically the ultimate walls  
of text. :) Perhaps when the thread seems to be concluding, someone  
could post a high-level, non-technical summary of some of its findings?


On Jan 17, 2011, at 10:10 AM, conseo wrote:

>> I followed up on http://unhosted.org which you might find  
>> interesting.
>> Moves data processing back to the "edge" on the desktop.
>
> This is really cool, thanks for the link! kio-magnet imo still goes  
> a bit
> further because you don't even need a server anymore, not even for  
> storing
> JSON data, as you can store it in a BitTorrent swarm

This part blew me away. I have about seven minutes left for metagov- 
related stuff this morning, so can't delve into these, but they look  
spectacular.

However, am I right in understanding that this distributed hosting  
approach couldn't be applied to, say, MediaWiki? The software needs to  
be written to the hosting model from the ground-up, right? Or can it  
be adapted (I am of course, thinking of the metagovernment.org site  
atm.)

In any event, I do want to encourage anything along these lines for  
all democracy software... anything that can remove single points of  
failure (where one kind of failure is corruption) is always preferable.



Originally posted to the mailing list of the Metagovernment Project:
http://metagovernment.org/mailman/listinfo/start_metagovernment.org