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    * System: [[Debian]] [[GNU]]/[[Linux]]
    '''Server software'''
    * Hypervisors (by hosting guys) Xen and KVM
    * Webservers: Nginx and Apache


    * [[MediaWiki]] ([[PHP]], [[MariaDB]] and more)
    * [[w:Operating system|Operating system]]: [[w:Debian|Debian]] [[w:GNU/Linux|GNU/Linux]]
    * [[w:diaspora (software)]]  ([[Ruby on rails]] ,[[Ruby]], MariaDB, Node.JS and more) - role: [[consumer protection]] oriented [[free social media]] since 2010
    * [[w:Hypervisor|Hypervisor]]s (by hosting guys) [[w:Xen|Xen]] and [[w:Kernel-based Virtual Machine|KVM]]
    * Webservers: [[w:Nginx|Nginx]] and [[w:Apache HTTP Server|Apache]]
     
    * [[MediaWiki]] ([[w:PHP|PHP]], [[w:MariaDB|MariaDB]] and more)
    * [[w:diaspora (software)]]  ([[w:Ruby on Rails|Ruby on Rails]] ,[[w:Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]], MariaDB, [[w:Node.js|Node.js]] and more) - role: [[consumer protection]] oriented [[free social media]] since 2010
    * [[w:Draft:Hubzilla]] (PHP, MariaDB) - Excellent channel-based distributed free social media where subscription is to the whole network allowing nomadic and double citizenship. A model the others should follow suit.  
    * [[w:Draft:Hubzilla]] (PHP, MariaDB) - Excellent channel-based distributed free social media where subscription is to the whole network allowing nomadic and double citizenship. A model the others should follow suit.  
    * [[w:Friendica]] (PHP, MariaDB, fully contained in database w/ images stored as blobs. The least learning curve free social media for [[facebook refugees]]. Initiated by the same guy as Hubzilla.
    * [[w:Friendica]] (PHP, MariaDB, fully contained in database w/ images stored as blobs. The least learning curve free social media for [[facebook refugees]]. Initiated by the same guy as Hubzilla.
    * [[w:GNU social]] MariaDB - [[Microblogging]] platform
    * [[w:GNU social]] MariaDB - [[w:Microblogging|Microblogging]] platform
    * [[w:GNU MediaGoblin]] (Python2 (Installing Python3 was impossible last time I looked at it, theoretically compatible with Py3 but broken because outside code supplier.) and [[PostgreSQL]]) Role: [[Copyleft]] [[code]], [[content]] and [[codecs]] based media repository.
    * [[w:GNU MediaGoblin]] (Python2 (Installing Python3 was impossible last time I looked at it, theoretically compatible with Py3 but broken because outside code supplier.) and [[w:PostgreSQL|PostgreSQL]]) Role: [[Copyleft]] [[code]], [[content]] and [[codecs]] based media repository.
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    Revision as of 14:47, 1 September 2016

    This article is for choosing good systems (technical) for The Consumerium Effort - Enhancing Consumer Informedness

    Factors affecting systems selections

    • Copyleft 'free to modify' and 'free of cost' software is strongly preferred over other solutions.
    • Minimal modifications made (MMM) is an preference as well. This will ensure that we don't get swamped down on patching ad-hoccy, unstandard aged solutions to keep 'em working with the new stuff.

    Encodings

    • Integers w:BASE10 for integers, size depends on available solutions. Escape integer ceiling by bluntly encoding the integer as string of BASE-10 chars, dirty hack but could do the trick.
    • Condense URL encoding w:BASE64 and 64 possible characters, exactly 6 bits from w:ISO/IEC 646 (hard compatible with 7-bit ASCII)
    • w:UTF-8 encoded w:Unicode for text. UTF-8 is efficient and allows 2^32 different characters.. unless escaped to 40-bit in future revision

    Copyright and copyleft protections system selections

    • Copyleft licensing for content, code and Consumerium Commons media repository
    • Automatic plagiarism testing which usually probably also translates to copyvio
    • Disqualify and rapidly remove all copyvio
    • Discourage piratism. Piratism on copyleft much stronger than on copyright.

    Languages

    Programming languages

    Currently used languages

    Considered languages / languages of interest

    Databases

    Current databases

    Main article: Databases

    Currently using all major free software RDBMS:

    Considered databases

    Candidates for testing

    • All copyleft licensed triplestore and more advanced i.e. graph

    Frameworks

    Frameworks for glueing into various systems


    Software

    Current software

    Server software

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    APIs

    APIs to communicate with:

    • Free social media ones

    Data sources

    Data sources: own

    • Semantic MediaWiki well thought out and set up on implementation wiki (c.consumerium.org)
    • Development Wiki - User database, userspace sharing or importing and Unified Login are being looked at as options.

    Data sources: Semantic web


    Lists of Sparql endpoints


    Media sources

    Copyleft: