I created a project on Launchpad for the first time today. It’s called CS Greasy, a collection (or soon to be a collection) of Greasemonkey scripts related to CouchSurfing. It took a little time to figure it out, but thanks to Kasper’s help, I think we’ve got it working now.
I created a new team called [...]
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CS Greasy on Launchpad
Posted in CouchSurfing, Open Source, Techy Also tagged bazaar, bzr, greasemonkey, launchpad Leave a comment
CS Potluck
I went to a CouchSurfing potluck last night, it was fun.
Social Networking Rights
After talking about member rights on CouchSurfing, I was interested to see this article that Dante forwarded about creating a bill of rights for members of the social web. I’m strongly in favour of outlining exactly what rights users of social networks should have. I’m really pleased to see an increasing level of awareness and [...]
Posted in Predictions, Techy Also tagged Callum, OpenSocialWeb, Social-Networking-Rights Leave a comment
I’ve Been Fired!
This morning I woke up to find an email in my inbox telling me that my volunteer services are no longer required by CouchSurfing.
Apparently I have “fundamental differences in ideology and communication styles”. I’ve asked for clarification on that, fundamentally different from whom. I’m not holding my breath for an answer!
One thing was stated clearly [...]
Posted in CouchSurfing, OpenCouchSurfing Also tagged Callum-Macdonald, Hospitality-Exchange, Hospitality-Networs, Open-Source, OpenCouchSurfing 1 Comment
A Sad Day for CouchSurfing
At least three volunteer developers have resigned from the CouchSurfing Tech Team on account of the new NDA that all volunteers will be required to sign.
The new NDA includes a non-compete clause preventing volunteers from working with any other travel or social networks. It also requires that volunteers transfer their Intellectual Property rights to CouchSurfing [...]
Posted in CouchSurfing, OpenCouchSurfing Also tagged CouchSurfing-NDA, CouchSurfing.com, OpenCouchSurfing 6 Comments
CouchSurfing.com is Back
CouchSurfing.com is back online after almost 20 hours of down time.
This downtime was especially frustrating for a number of reasons.
1) It was unannounced. Even on the public developers list, there was no forewarning of the upgrade. No doubt travellers were left stranded while the site was down for almost a full day.
2) It clearly wasn’t [...]
Posted in CouchSurfing, OpenCouchSurfing Also tagged CouchSurfing-NDA, CouchSurfing.com, OpenCouchSurfing, OpenCouchSurfing-Petition 3 Comments
OpenCouchSurfing Goes Live
I’m delighted to announce the launch of The OpenCouchSurfing Campaign. I fully support the campaign, I believe that CouchSurfing very much needs to embrace openness and transparency. It’s been a week or so in the making, and today is the culmination of our preparations. The word is out. Vive la revolucion!
