[FC-discuss] Free Software Web App Co-operative

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Jonathan Roberts wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I'm floating the idea around a few places of starting up a web-apps (my 
> initial thoughts are e-mail and calendar, rss also, but we'll see how it 
> develops - some people think something as important as e-mail should be 
> left until later when the model is more tested) service which is owned 
> and funded by its members, based entirely on free software.

That sounds nice.  Web-based apps still creep me out a little, but count 
me in for at least further discussion (e.g., feel free to sign up my email 
address for the specific list if it forms, or mail me off-list or 
on-list).

> Of course there would be a small premium but I think we could keep it 
> down to approx. $5 per person per month.

That sounds reasonable.  It would be interesting to see if a small web app 
collective could do an ad-supported model as well, I think.

> If anybody is interested feel free to reply to this thread or contact me 
> off-list: I'm currently gathering together interested parties to cc 
> together to try and move the conversation forward about exactly what we 
> can do, how we can do it, and actually doing it!

I'm up for that conversation.

Web-based applications are very popular for a bunch of reasons, and if 
people who want them can be served by Free Software, that sounds great.

-- Asheesh.

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