[Linux-aus] Grant application: Setting up and operating a ‘Mastodon’ node for the Australian online community

Sun May 7 14:40:27 AEST 2017

Hi Rus,

The VM would be running in a Sydney datacentre for the sake of speed and low latency. All Toots (as Mastodon calls the Tweets) are public, so I do not see a benefit (yet) of running the service outside Australia for privacy reasons. 

My understanding is that Mastodon is largely compatible with GNU Social. The federated architecture allows both user groups to interact with each other. In addition, many users find the Mastodon GUI more appealing. 

From the ops perspective, Docker makes Mastodon super-easy to run and operate on the server-side.

Regards,
Gabor Szathmari
President, CryptoAUSTRALIA

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> On 5 May 2017, at 22:20, Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> wrote:
> 
> I think that the amount of money is reasonable and this could provide a good 
> benefit to the community.
> 
> But I would like to know what the benefits are over GNU Social?  Is it easier 
> to install and manage?  Last time I checked GNU Social was difficult to install, 
> to achieve the goals of replacing Twitter and giving users control I think 
> that being at least as easy to install as Wordpress would be a requirement.
> 
> Would it be better to have this run on a VM on one of the LA servers?
> 
> On Fri, 5 May 2017 08:07:49 AM Linux Australia President wrote:
>> Thanks for the reminder Gabor, Council will consider this application on
>> 11th May.
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Kathy
>> 
>> On 05/05/17 07:40, Gabor Szathmari wrote:
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>> 
>>> I have seen a few decisions coming in, and I just wanted to follow up
>>> on this grant application. If you have any questions about the
>>> project, please let me know.
>>> 
>>> Thank you
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Gabor Szathmari
>>> President, CryptoAUSTRALIA
>>> 
>>> *e: *gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au <mailto:gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au> <mailto:gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au <mailto:gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au>>
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>>>> On 20 Apr 2017, at 16:43, Gabor Szathmari
>>>> <gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au <mailto:gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au> <mailto:gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au <mailto:gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au>>>
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>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Gabor Szathmari
>>>> President, CryptoAUSTRALIA
>>>> 
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