P2P Hospitality initiatives and proposals

This is a directory to various P2P Hospitality initiatives and proposals. There is a philosophical overview elsewhere.

3M's Brainstorming notes

Midsch, Mahouni2000 and Matrixpoint have been brainstorming about decentralization and privacy solutions for the past 6 months (as of 10/2009). A few more pages may appear here summarizing our explorations, such as this P2P resources page. Our goal was to make use of existing systems, but we haven't yet found a ready-to-deploy solution. Thus, more work needs to be done. (The less, the better.) Very briefly, we see three main areas of technical activity to pursue:

• Customize Noserub (or Drupal or BuddyPress or whatever) for localized or special-interest hospex communities, packaging it so that is very easy to deploy.

• Encourage sub-communities within the big social sites like Facebook, perhaps by developing custom apps for them.

• Develop a decentralized (P2P) trust/search network. A Java-based solution named Nexus is under development.

Some non-technical areas to explore are:

• Universal standards or guidelines for trust, safety, and privacy.

• What constitutes an identity/reputation in the virtual world?

A P2P hospitality proposal by Robino on ShareWiki.org

P2P hospitality

A Decentralized networks discussion by Lemon-head

Decentralized networks