Sandstorm – An open source platform for personal servers
Things like Sandstorm are really important as they allow people options without becoming a full-blown sysadmin. Just look at how many crowd funding ideas are based on 'personal cloud' concepts.However, we also need to work on the fundamental problems to make it easier to build decentralised products in the first place (not everything is a web-app). Namely, how such apps are built, how they store/sync data, and how we deal with identity. The current tools simply aren't designed for the world we're heading towards, so we need to re-evaluate our assumptions. On top of this is the need for business models that don't rely on mass data collection (eg advertising) -- we can't rely on everything being open source but the underlying infrastructure must be.There are many ways forward and the particular approach I'm taking is based on unikernels and creating a modern stack to deal with the above issues directly. There's more info at http://amirchaudhry.com/brewing-miso-to-serve-nymote/If anyone happens to be at FOSDEM this weekend I'd be happy to chat about these ideas in person.