A presentation at Decentralized Storage Summit in in Berlin, Germany by Boris Mann
C ONSTELL ATION PROVIDERS DECENTRALIZED STORAGE SUMMIT AUGUST 2019
BORIS MANN • 15 years ago, worked on building out the Drupal community, built the first commercial company around Drupal, helped form Drupal Association • Last year, focused on Ethereum community, helping out with the Ethereum Magicians, Core Devs • FISSION is building developer tools using decentralized web tech ✨
L I C E N S I N G I N N O VAT I O N • For the first time in 15 years, we’re starting to see licensing innovation again • Cloud providers vs. VC-funded open source • Or: “Tragedy of the Commons” is still a thing
D ATA E T H I C S • We are starting to see people care about data — specifically, THEIR data • What requires software developers or companies to act in certain ways with data? • From principles (Fair Data Society, Local First Software) to licenses (Cryptographic Autonomy License, Icepick)
S E L F F U N D I N G S O F T WA R E • Currently we’re still deep in the age of the ad-supported web • We’ve had (and have) p2p systems which require network participation (e.g. Bittorrent ratios) — but that still hasn’t funded the construction of the software clients • Can we give app builders the tools to enable self funded software? • Subscriptions, pay-per-use, credits for donating resources
C O N S T E L L AT I O N P R O V I D E R S • Runs open source software for themselves and others “as a service” • Connected to a network of other providers • Users can bring their own providers for storage, compute, identity, etc. • Relies on standards & compatible interfaces — and realistically, an evolution of app architecture & expectations
C O N S T E L L AT I O N V S C L O U D P R O V I D E R S • Cloud providers are the back end costs of a software system — they sell storage, compute & other services at a profit margin • As we move from physical machines to containers to serverless, usage needs are more on-demand • Constellation providers can have a different agreement with their users: they maintain software and services with resources as needed, but user can also bring their own resources • Can constellation providers include users in their resource planning, as well as other constellation providers?
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