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Mastodonians—tell me about your current project!
@blakehaswell I have a few that are constantly being worked on. I have a personal Asterisk server, a time server that is part of a server pool, a Synchronet BBS, I have a couple Raspberry Pi's at home, one of them sharing ADS-B data with a few different sites, all because I can.
@TheGiant Nice – what an eclectic collection of servers! Coincidentally I was actually learning a little about NTP the other day.
@blakehaswell A web browser designed specifically for elementary OS. Doubt that's very exciting to you.
What might be though is my plans to encourage use of smaller domain-specific search engines, which may more easily be hosted on tech like IPFS for querying to be done clientside, with it (or rather stop encouraging larger monolithic search engines like other browsers do).
@alcinnz Odysseus actually sounds like a really cool project!
But you're right, your plans around smaller domain-specific search engines do sound fascinating. Presumably that's tied into Odysseus? Do you have existing search engines in mind, or are you hoping to see more pop up?
@blakehaswell Yes, the domain specific search would be (in part) tied into Odysseus.
And as for any specific search engines, I'm mostly hoping they'll pop up. But there are existing ones, like anything GeoNetwork will work well. And I'd love to get other sites like MediaWikis to work with it.
@blakehaswell To clarify things a bit, my plan is to work with any site which uses the existing standards of OpenSearch and/or SKOS. GeoNetwork already does a great job satisfying this.
From here I'd support domain-specific search dev with UI components and IPFS-hosted databases, as well as UIs (both in Odysseus and outside of it) to reduce roadblocks stopping people from taking advantage of these.