With recent revelations of NSA spying on all communications they can get their hands on, it is all the more important for us to build technological solutions like federated social networks, encrypted email etc.
Diaspora is an an important solution to this critical problem facing all of us. But as it is a social network, along with technical part, we need to take it to the masses.
So if you are keen about protecting your privacy, join us in this campaign and lets together plan how far we can take it.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Diaspora/Mumbai-IN/1078062/
Also if any of you are interested in technical contributions like packaging diaspora for debian or developing features for diaspora (it is a ruby on rails application), let me know.
Btw, I will be in Mumbai from 9th to 24th Jan and I would like to visit as many campuses as possible to promote free software, free culture, privacy, internet freedom etc. If you have contacts with any schools or colleges, connect with me.
A little about me, I contribute to debian and maintains many ruby libraries needed for diaspora. You can see the current status of diaspora packaging at http://people.debian.org/~praveen/diasbar/
I used to be a Senior System Administrator with Red Hat in Pune. Now I'm just travelling around India promoting digital commons and meeting friends.
4 of my recent campaigns
1. Pirate Cycling https://poddery.com/tags/piratecycling 2. Kids on Computers free software lab setup at Assam https://poddery.com/tags/kocassam 3. Diaspora setup at Acharya Narendra Dev college in Delhi https://poddery.com/tags/andcdiasportal 4. Diaspora Yatra https://poddery.com/tags/diasporayatra http://yatra.diasporafoundation.org
Looking forward to meeting you all.