Who are we?
We are a community of diaspora users and contributors from the early days of diaspora.
- Anish and Balasankar maintains Malayalam translations.
- Nandaja and Praveen helps in making diaspora easy to install (packaging of diaspora for debian) - Stage setters
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Hrishikesh - Diaspora prophet/The Pied Piper of Diaspora.
- Anish, Atul and Vishnu - Actors
- Praseetha, Akshay, Labeeb and Hiran - Creators of color
Why this campaign is important
- Diaspora is a culture. A culture against the loss of personal privacy by the corporate social network giants. Diaspora enables us to keep one's data with himself/herself and provides the flexibility to select the shareable data. When the data is stored in his/her local machines and not on a single central server, it provides the utmost security to users.
- Diaspora, being a distributed system, is actually a network of multiple instances of the software Diaspora. These instances are called pods. You can think of it like a mobile service provider or an email provider.
- One of the oldest and biggest Diaspora pod, poddery.com is at the verge of closing down.
- This campaign is trying to prevent this calamity and protect the diversity. To prevent poddery from closing down so as to refuel the diaspora idea.
- We are planning to adopt poddery.com from its current guardian and host it ourselves.
What your contributions mean to us
Your contribution is literally the fuel we need to keep this motor running. Without that, poddery.com is dead, taking with it the credibility of Diaspora culture. Your contributions will surely make history, the history of a war between a david called privacy and corporate goliath. Your contributions are goliath's pebbles. Provide them and be a part of this history.
What We Need
- €389 is spent for amazon aws medium instance reserved for 3 years.
- €175 is used to pay for bandwidth, considering 100% increase in bandwidth use per year and 10% increase in bandwidth cost per year by amazon.
- €378 is kept aside for printing and sending T shirts.
- €151 is kept aside for promotion of diaspora like organizing workshops, classes, etc.
- €45 is set aside for paying the previous pod owner for renewal for June.
- All the residual amount is spent for promotion of diaspora and any unexpected expenses occured.
If we do not reach the goal, we will use whatever amount we got to extend the life of poddery.com.
What You Get
- €1 - Name on the "Donors" List
- €4 - Details on the "Donors" List (homepage/blog/any url) and the one above
- €8 - @poddery.com email alias and all the ones above
- €16 - Photo on "Donors" list and all the ones above
- €40 - T Shirt (max 25) and all the ones above
- €80 - Name on front page (max 10) and all the ones above
- €175 - Home Page Logo - size 250x250 (max 6) for one year and all the ones above
- €400 - Sidebar Logo - size 100x100 (every page - max 3) for one year and all the ones above
- AND A SUPER AND RELIABLE SOCIAL NETWORK WITHOUT THE FEAR OF SELLING DATA
The Impact
Your contributions, by helping Diaspora, shows the world that we can definitely share what we wish without selling anything to the corporate giants. You control what, whom and when parameters of access regarding your data.
Other Ways You Can Help
Some people just can’t contribute, but that doesn’t mean they can’t help:
- Share the Diaspora philosophy
- Tell your friends why privacy and anonymity became one of the fundamental needs in cyber world
- Get the word out and make some noise about this campaign.
- Use the Indiegogo share tools to spread the word!
- Use Diaspora, talk Diaspora, be Diaspora
And that’s all there is to it.