Constellation Providers can have a different relationship with their users than Cloud Providers.

Can Constellation Providers include users, and other (business) competitors in their resource planning?

#constellationproviders #dss19

Can we evolve app architecture and user expectations?

Users more engaged, potentially bring their own providers or sources of storage, compute, identity, etc.

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We’re still deep in the era of the ad-supported web. How do clients & apps that users interact with get funded?

Can we give tools to app builders to enable self-funded software?

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Activities around data ethics range from shared principles — @FairDataSociety, @inkandswitch Local First Software — to licenses — Cryptographic Autonomy License, Icepick.

We need both and the design & legal spaces are being explored now.

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On the user side, a rising awareness of of & desire for data ethics. With this demand, developers & providers are driven to define their stance.

Can we require these actors to act in certain ways around user data?

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One of the foundations of open source is the legal innovation of licensing. For the first time in 15 years, we’re starting to see new innovation. Partially cloud giants vs VC funded open source, and community tragedy of the commons happens again #constellationproviders #dss19

My talk is about Constellation Providers. Changes in business models, legal license innovation, and technology can potentially lead us to an alternate model to todays Cloud Providers #constellationproviders #dss19

Today I’m at the Decentralized Storage Summit. www.eventbrite.com/e/decentralised-storage-...

I’ll presenting in the afternoon, a very brief lightning talk, introducing some thoughts on #constellationproviders vs cloud providers.

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