<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Rus,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. <br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From the ops perspective, Docker makes Mastodon super-easy to run and operate on the server-side.</div><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 5 May 2017, at 22:20, Russell Coker <<a href="mailto:russell@coker.com.au" class="">russell@coker.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I think that the amount of money is reasonable and this could provide a good<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">benefit to the community.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">But I would like to know what the benefits are over GNU Social? Is it easier<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">to install and manage? Last time I checked GNU Social was difficult to install,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">to achieve the goals of replacing Twitter and giving users control I think<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">that being at least as easy to install as Wordpress would be a requirement.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Would it be better to have this run on a VM on one of the LA servers?</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On Fri, 5 May 2017 08:07:49 AM Linux Australia President wrote:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Thanks for the reminder Gabor, Council will consider this application on<br class="">11th May.<br class=""><br class="">Kind regards,<br class="">Kathy<br class=""><br class="">On 05/05/17 07:40, Gabor Szathmari wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hello Everyone,<br class=""><br class="">I have seen a few decisions coming in, and I just wanted to follow up<br class="">on this grant application. If you have any questions about the<br class="">project, please let me know.<br class=""><br class="">Thank you<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class="">Gabor Szathmari<br class="">President, CryptoAUSTRALIA<br class=""><br class="">*e: *<a href="mailto:gabor@cryptoaustralia.org.au" class="">gabor@cryptoaustralia.org.au</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:gabor@cryptoaustralia.org.au" class="">mailto:gabor@cryptoaustralia.org.au</a>><br class="">*m:* +61 402 401 424<br class="">*w:*<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://cryptoaustralia.org.au/" class="">https://cryptoaustralia.org.au</a><br class="">*pgp:* 0326 DE9F DA20 A691 438B A58D 2B82 69F2 1A8C CB7A<br class="">*keybase:*<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https://keybase.io/gszathmari&c=E,1,jsjMRJsiRbFchc828ySNaR5zkttUv8oa6tCm-LIYRaVPivg7plj_zdC-NfrsRqngS3H36PQFBxzQnlE1dXL5F0RQqg42s70l2O3s0rM-QySe5Q,,&typo=1" class="">https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https://keybase.io/gszathmari&c=E,1,jsjMRJsiRbFchc828ySNaR5zkttUv8oa6tCm-LIYRaVPivg7plj_zdC-NfrsRqngS3H36PQFBxzQnlE1dXL5F0RQqg42s70l2O3s0rM-QySe5Q,,&typo=1</a><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 20 Apr 2017, at 16:43, Gabor Szathmari<br class=""><<a href="mailto:gabor@cryptoaustralia.org.au" class="">gabor@cryptoaustralia.org.au</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:gabor@cryptoaustralia.org.au" class="">mailto:gabor@cryptoaustralia.org.au</a>>><br class="">wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Dear Linux Australia members,<br class=""><br class="">Please find my grant application enclosed. 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