Roadmap

First draft:

1. Collect our requirements
   Some brief bullet points for this can be found in this pad.
   1. Functional level: What do we expect, as users, from such a system?
   2. Other levels: Hardware requirements (dedicated? shared computers?), implementation (do we aim for a general framework or is the primary target one implementation which others can link to if they want?)
2. Nail down the basic security / software architecture
   1. Basic frontend features we have to consider / agree on before going any further:
      • How to access the network? (web / multiple interfaces?)
        • Access a friend's profile / status messages / files by visiting his own host / website or access it from one's own instance?
        • Actual daemon running on a machine or HTTP stuff?
        • Federated / fully distributed?
        • Consider hardware / software requirements for the end user!
      • What sets us apart from Facebook (besides security and reliability)? Ideas (please add):
        • Share any files you want with whom you want (p2p?), including yourself (= your own personal cloud)
        • Full synchronization between devices
   2. Security features
      • See Secure Share's comparison page to get an idea what else is relevant (security-wise).
3. Look for software projects that meet our requirements
4. Backend development
   1. Depending on the outcome of 2.:
      • Modify the software to fit our demands or
      • Develop it on our own (agree on a protocol first)
   2. Security audit
5. Frontend development
   1. Collect feature ideas, don't forget usability.
   2. Look for UI designers who make it pretty and useful. :)
   3. Programming…
   4. Extensive beta testing, security audit (again), polishing
6. (Far future) Develop a campaign to advertise our software