1. Communies of the future
People increasingly rely more on online communities
People want to participate in many different communities: youtube, twitter, facebook, etc.
People are becoming more cautious of their privacy: facebook, google, etc.
Opensource and distributed systems can solve privacy and security problems: diaspora, etc.
Or our solution: Dispersy

2. What makes a community?
A community consists of several building blocks
The ability to communicate
The ability to gain and lose responsibility
The ability to protect yourself
There are more building blocks However, the above are a bare minimum for an online community to form

3. QPlatform: Dispersy
Dispersy is a platform that provides the building blocks for a community
Dispersy is used by a programmer to implement a community, i.e. a forum, a blog, messeging system, etc.
Dispersy stands for:
DIStributed: using P2P technology
PERmission: different people have different rights
SYstem: it is used to build applications

4. Dispersy: privileges
Each Dispersy community will have a set of privileges
Privileges can be granted to users, allowing them to use more community features
Privileges can be revoked, allowing the community to protect itself from malicious users
Authorizing, revoking, and using a privilege is handled by the Dispersy platform

5. Dispersy: communication
Users sign their outgoing messages Hence they are responsible for what they do
Messages can be send to a user, to a community, or to subgroups within a community
When permitted, messages are stored and forwarded by other users
All communication (direct, gossip, etc.) is handled by the the Dispersy platform

6. Deliverable The Febuary 2011 deliverable Technical documentation
Discovery community (discover available users and communities)
Test results for simulated users actively participating in the Discovery community
An initial technical draft is available:

7. Future work
The Dispersy platform will be used for the Tribler community features (Niels' work)
Distributing content
Commenting on content and people
Private file sharing communities
The Dispersy platform will be used to build the worlds new financial system, replacing all banks... hopefully

8. Questions