[Fsuk-manchester] Libre Office collaborative coding project

[Andrew Gladwell]

I note that Diaspora, the free Facebook alternative, has collaboration 
built in.  The developers talk about ownership of a "seed", and 
encrypted data transfers.

Might it be worth looking at this project and either deciding to bolt 
Libre Office on, or to take some lessons from this approach?

One problem I immediately foresee with diaspora is the need to run your 
own server all the time, as I understand it. And, should you choose to 
host a seed on your Android phone, what implications does that have?  It 
would choke your bandwidth.  Might sound like a crazy thing to do but 
someone will try.

Are people willing to pay for this, or to pay for hosting on a shared 
server, when they can already get Facebook for free?  If Diaspora are 
not making money from selling your data and browsing habits, how do they 
expect to pay for the service?

Andrew Gladwell.