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1. Sean R. Lynch ☑️ (seanl@social.literati.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2017 23:48:16 EDT Sean R. Lynch ☑️

   Speaking of federated, self-hosted open source software, GitLab is apaprently working (slowly) on federation: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013

   1. INACTIVE (deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2017 00:12:19 EDT INACTIVE

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      @seanl This is something that I think could actually be a pretty huge deal.

      Let's suppose that on the web, an organization could operate like a public library. If your organization doesn't have a document, it can search for related things through a connected network and provide a stream of cross-domain documents and permissions.

      What would it mean for FOSS projects to federate their code repositories? Imagine GNU or Mozilla hosting all of their projects in a federation of code.

      1. INACTIVE (deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2017 00:17:08 EDT INACTIVE

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         @seanl Imagine if GNU ran an instance, and could host all of their projects on it. There could be documentation, code playgrounds, issue tracking, discussions, and tool integrations.

         Suppose this could also accept tipping, donations, bounties, and fundraisers?

         People could even sign up on these instances as a low barrier of entry.