The Human Web & Cuteboot
 

This weekend at FOSDEM I presented a bit more about what I'm doing past my employment at Jolla.

First off, the Cuteboot project, a means to put your own UX on top of most Android device, slides here

Within that talk I also announced what me and a bunch of others are working on for a bit now, something called The Human Web. We hang out at #thehumanweb on irc.freenode.net. Webchat here.

The Human Web project seeks to empower everybody with the ability to:

• Access, protect, control and share their identities and data
• Securely communicate with machine and other human beings alike
• Trade and participate in smart contracts
• Collaborate and coordinate by themselves or together with others
• Evolve and share their user experiences with others
• Do all of the above without having to be tied to any middlemen

We use technologies such as:

• IPFS - http://ipfs.io
• Qt/QML - http://www.qt.io/
• Ethereum - https://www.ethereum.org/
• Tor & Tor hidden services - https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en
• gRPC - http://www.grpc.io/
• Protocol buffers - https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
• Protobuf-qml - https://github.com/nsuke/protobuf-qml
• Conflict-free replicated data types - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confli...ated_data_type

If this is something you care about and want to join the discussion in, or even contribute to the code of, feel free to join us on IRC. A bit of an infopackage with a lot of the surrounding inspirations, can be found at https://github.com/thehumanweb/notes/wiki/InfoPackage

Re: The Human Web & Cuteboot
 

thanks i would be happy if you could post (if it actually exists) a link of a video of your time at fosdem (i am also looking for video of Locusf talking at the same event, but i have not found anything yet)

Re: The Human Web & Cuteboot
 

Yeah, videos come up later.

Re: The Human Web & Cuteboot
 

@Stskeeps: Is this project still active?

Re: The Human Web & Cuteboot
 

Cuteboot is a bit stalled but THW, well, wait and see :)

Re: The Human Web & Cuteboot
 

You can take Stskeeps out of Jolla but you can never take Jolla out of Stskeeps.

Re: The Human Web & Cuteboot
 

ouch :) 10 characters

Re: The Human Web & Cuteboot
 

I don't really understand what The Human Web is all about. But Cuteboot (stripping out a lot of stuff we don't want in a Android device and putting on top our own UI) sounded really interesting. It would be great if someone was working on that, or could show any successes.

Re: The Human Web & Cuteboot
 

It would be interesting if it was picked up by the Qt project, they already have boot-to-qt which is a similar sort of thing but doesnt leverage the device adaptation in the same way that Cuteboot does.

But if you want a single purpose device running Qt on an android device then cuteboot is a good way to achieve that