[Noisebridge-discuss] Explore Hubzilla for Noisebridge community site

[Andrew Manning]

I am a contributor to the Hubzilla project, a robust decentralized platform for building connected community sites. It's actually incredibly difficult to summarize Hubzilla in a single sentence, which should be a familiar problem for Noisebridge hackers based on what I've learned about it so far. In any case in a recent message on our community forums one of our members said this:



One group that I can think of is NoiseBridge. In almost every respect, they are a perfect candidate for Hubzilla. It's a somewhat anarchic group of tinkerers covering a wide array of subjects that cover computer science, av production, 3D Printing, free and open source software, homebrew hardware development, art, music, and much more. Currently, they are reliant on a MediaWiki installation and a handful of mailing lists.



If anything, they would benefit greatly from Hubzilla's stream format, channels, events, and group features. Projects and members within NoiseBridge could operate as channels and federate with the rest of the Free Network. Other hackerspaces may be inclined to follow suit, and some project initiatives may receive exposure for people in other hackerspaces. One such fixture of the physical space of Noisebridge is that they offer a phone line to contact numerous other hackerspaces around the world.

I thought I would reach out and share Hubzilla with your community, since a group of open-source loving hackers would definitely find Hubzilla interesting to learn more about!



Andrew


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