GNU/consensus/stakeholders

GNU Consensus Stakeholders

Please refer to the official Stakeholders page for an accurate list of participants. This page only lists software projects, and (potentially) supporting organizations.

If you're a LibrePlanet user, you can show your support by adding the GNU consensus badge to your user page: {{user consensus}}.

Participating Projects

The following projects are active participants of the GNU consensus, and appear on the official GNU consensus Stakeholders page.

EDN

Echt Decentrales Netz collects and tests approaches to a privacy-preserving Internet protocol stack. The EDN is providing analysis for the Broken and more importantly the OK sections.

GNUnet

GNUnet is the GNU framework for secure peer-to-peer networking. It is part of the GNU Project, written in C, and released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. GNUnet provides the foundation for the P2P version of the GNU/consensus for interoperability among free software packages for social networking, along with the Secushare package.

Lorea

The Lorea project is a free software project based on the Elgg social networking engine, written primarily in PHP. Lorea uses OStatus protocols as the main vector for federation. It also uses XMPP for notifications and chat rooms, and provides SMTP integration for mailing lists and notifications via email.

It is released as a set of plugins for Elgg, and documentation for integration of other programs (Postfix, ejabberd, Etherpad Lite...), under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or later. The current state of development makes so that there is no official package yet.

Secushare

SecuShare evolved from the work on Protocol for Synchronous Conferencing (PSYC) developed by lynX. It is developed in C, and will be available as a service for GNUnet.

Supporting Organizations

The GNU/consensus is supported by the following organizations. They are listed alphabetically.

If you want your free-software-related organization to be listed, you're invited to submit the GNU/consensus Manifesto proposal in your community and join the conversation.

Dyne Foundation

Dyne is a free software foundry and grassroots community, that develops software as a craft.

GNU Project

GNU consensus is an official GNU project.

Potential Partners

The GNU consensus project is looking at the following free software projects to participate in the elaboration of a global community consensus over social networking interoperability.

If you're the maintainer of such a project, you're invited to submit the GNU Consensus Manifesto proposal in your community and join the conversation.

If your free software project is not listed here, feel free to add it.

Individuals

We need some sort of badge that can be used to advertise the project on each person's website. Please contact the project maintainers via the mailing list if you want to help.

LibrePlanet users can insert de GNU consensus badge on their own User page using: {{user consensus}}.

Organizations

Some free-software-friendly organizations could join the conversation and make their support official for the project: EDRI, EFF, FSF, ISOC, the Network Effect Alliance, W3C, etc. They need to be contacted individually, and introduced to the project. Please contact the project maintainers via the mailing list if you want to help.

Software Projects

Diaspora*

Diaspora* is a community-run project that provides distributed and contextual social networking features. It is developed in Ruby on Rails, and released under the GNU Affero General Public Licence version 3, or later.

Friendica

The Friendica Project is a world-wide consortium of software developers creating decentralised social platforms and technology for the coming post-Facebook world. It releases a web application written in PHP, under the X11 License (otherwise known as "MIT License".)

GNU Social

GNU Social is a GNU package. It uses StatusNet as its base, and is released under the GNU Affero General Public Licence.

Kune

Kune is a web tool to encourage collaboration, content sharing & free culture. It is based on Apache Wave, that it extends for realtime group collaboration, and is written in Java, using the Google Web Toolkit. Kune fosters the Wave Federation Protocol, itself an extension of XMPP. It is released under the GNU Affero General Public Licence.

Jappix

Jappix offers an XMPP-based and cloud-based social networking platform. It is programmed in , and released under the GNU Affero General Public Licence version 3, or later. It provides a web client, a desktop client, a mobile application, and a web widget to integrate with a web site.

Movim

Movim stands for My Open Virtual Identity Manager. The project originates from France and is aimed at offering a decentralised and privacy-aware alternative to popular social networks. The main goals are to give back control of data to the users, and to provide a robust and difficult to filter social network. It is a standards-based web application using HTML5 and XMPP. It is programmed in PHP, and released under the GNU Affero General Public Licence version 3, or later.

Pump.IO

Pump.io is the successor of StatusNet. It is mainly based on ActivityStreams, developed in NodeJS, and released under the Apache2 license.

Sockethub

Sockethub aims to implement a "polyglot" (speaking all the languages of the interwebs) approach to social and other interactive messaging applications, and assist unhosted web app developers by providing server-independent, server-side functionality. It is released under the GNU Affero General Public Licence version 3, and lives on Github.

StatusNet

StatusNet became #GNU_Social.

Tent

Tent is a protocol for distributed social networking and personal data storage. It is a promising protocol, but is not yet released under any free license.