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#introduction hello! I’m Tristan, also part of the great #twittermigration. West > East transplant, 2 dogs & great partner.

I have many interests; some of them are music (clarinet, flute, piano, guitar, singing choir, listening), electronics (building, restoring, esp audio gear), film photography, computer things (Linux, code, infosec, UX design, home automation), skiing, cycling, cooking, camping, hiking, poetry reading/writing, sustainability & enviro, old houses, urbanism, and more.

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#introduction hello! I’m Tristan, also part of the great #twittermigration. West > East transplant, 2 dogs & great partner.

I have many interests; some of them are music (clarinet, flute, piano, guitar, singing choir, listening), electronics (building, restoring, esp audio gear), film photography, computer things (Linux, code, infosec, UX design, home automation), skiing, cycling, cooking, camping, hiking, poetry reading/writing, sustainability & enviro, old houses, urbanism, and more.

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I found my old notebooks outlining a federated “webOS”. Something you run on your own server, or use a friend’s or family’s.

This was in 2005 when Zenphoto was just spinning up. Zenphoto was “just” a simple photo gallery app, but it was self-hosted at a time the trend was to move everything to Big Services. It had a simplicity and social features like comments. And eventually more than just photos.

I started to think about all the installs out there, and how they could talk to each other…

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I found my old notebooks outlining a federated “webOS”. Something you run on your own server, or use a friend’s or family’s.

This was in 2005 when Zenphoto was just spinning up. Zenphoto was “just” a simple photo gallery app, but it was self-hosted at a time the trend was to move everything to Big Services. It had a simplicity and social features like comments. And eventually more than just photos.

I started to think about all the installs out there, and how they could talk to each other…

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Web os
An
Os
For the
Internet
- Web App to install on your web server
Holds all of your documents, shows filestructure, scares, ete.
- Filesystem:
need not be based
on the
• Wintows / Mac standard.
Doinets
can
be separate frown their
physival files
*
- Applizations bilt for the
- 8/5, has
a file interface (API), temporary starnge, permanent storage (settings registry, ete), private and public side of the app.
- Entire Ols has a publicly accessible side - shows all apps' public views as links, can be totally custorize
Sowe sort of commen
interface
throughout-top bar with apps to launch, etz.
Maybe a taskbar with
saved states applications (Spen'")
Lots of AJAX
Screw IE support.