Topic: Osiris - Decentralized forum (Read 521 times)

http://www.osiris-sps.org/

Osiris is a platform to build decentralized forum.
The project is born 10 years ago, from another project named Keyforum.

The idea comes from the time of the forums dedicated to the network eDonkey, where it was possible to share link to contents (movies, games, music ...)
At the time it was common that forums where closed by authorities or directly from the admins that were worried about their personal situation.

So it was very annoing that the community wasn't able to continue the life of the forum even if the admins weren't good on doing it.

On Osiris the forum lives on the nodes, and everyone is free to choose his admins/mods, so the community is indipendet from the choice of some single authorities.

Until now it has beed developed only from two devs, Berserker e Clodo.

The problem is that after all this time the project didn't arrived to completion (v1.0)

The two devs after all their work, they didn't see the project moving by itself with the help of the communities, so they've lost interest on completing it.


In my opinion, the main problem was that the project wasn't open source, so many weren't interesting on helping it and they weren't trusting the two devs.
The main target of thi product/system was people with a high interest in privacy, so a closed source project wan't good at all.


Anyway, now the project is fully open source, even if it still not completed
https://github.com/OsirisSPS/osiris-sps
(they have open it some years ago, but they did not advertised it anywhere)


There is also a build for Windows (released by abcde2)
https://mega.nz/#!tdAnhQYI!WV5b60bJMjPd9T4g1FOUwPMg52PZGmt8bbk02JCueYo
(just rememberd, that it isn't a complete project)


Berserker said that by working on it on some weekends, it can take some monthes to be completed.
Instead by working on it in fulltime, only some weeks.


If someone want to give some help, the main language is C++, Phython for the add-on/plugins.


Is there someone that wants to give some help?