Comments on: LinuxTag 2007 wrap-up

By: lynX

lynX — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:34:57 +0000

Hmm.. I prefer the newer definition… still hard to summarize … how would you explain the web in 3 lines to someone who’s never heard of it, and get all the impliciations through?

PSYC is a modern protocol for a messaging infrastructure for text-based conferencing (but also enabling transparent binary data). It has learned from protocols as IRC and XMPP and found an approach that can indeed scale globally, by generalizing the multicast concept beyond chatrooms to presence awareness, news- and friendcasting and leers at decentralized privacy-driven social networking (using trust metrics) and even telephony. Also, chatrooms are programmable, which enables for applications like event notification.

By: Axel Hecht

Axel Hecht — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:41:51 +0000

Fabio Till came back with numbers, LinuxTag 2007 reports 9600 and FOSDEM 2007 reports 3000. Definitly didn't feel like it, neither in the talks I've been nor on the floor. I wonder if cutting down to 3 days would help.

By: 20after4

20after4 — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:56:26 +0000

Hey thanks for the mention Axel!

Here is the “about psyc” intro text:

“Imagine smartly multicasted chat and conferencing, non-proprietary instant messaging, distributed social networking and data sharing. And now imagine all of this rolled into one. PSYC is an open source protocol and technology, bringing the useful and amazing aspects of several technologies, some of which have been proprietary too long, together.”

Current implementation is a bit rough but we have some cool features implemented. One example is HTML pages served via the psyc protocol, buddy-list management, psyc: url handler, etc.

My vision for Mozilla and PSYC is very similar to the work being done on The Coop: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/The_Coop

Imagine the features of coop, based open networks instead of closed systems like facebook.