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So it's an excellent opportunity for up and coming designers to contribute to a promising open source project.

The architecture is also fundamentally flawed.

How many people want to be the SysAdmin for all 2.0 services for their entire extended family? We need self-organizing systems, not federation.

What do you mean by "self-organizing system"?

It's a legitimate complaint that syadmin'ing all these services is a lot of work, but I think that's actually an argument for working to make deployment of services such as MediaGoblin easier. Right now deploying web applications is hard... if we could get things at least to the point of deploying and maintaining systems are "as easy" (note the quotes) as "apt-get install" and "apt-get upgrade" then we'd be in a much better state. But there's a lot of work happening right now towards abstracting deployment; I think if we can turn some of that effort towards generalizing deployment recipies for everyone (not just people running big clusters of servers) we could make big improvement here. Projects like JuJu and OpenShift are probably the right directions, but admittedly I haven't had enough time to spend playing with them.

How many people want to be the sysadmin for all the apps on their phone? Remember, phones are now running Unix.

It's possible to make installing this stuff easier.

Definitely! We have a lead graphic designer and nearly 50 programmers. As you can imagine that graphic designer is overstretched. Do you know any graphic designers who are interested in helping make MediaGoblin nicer? Point them our way, we'd love to talk to them! http://mediagoblin.org/pages/join.html

I always wonder how many open source projects actually look like they do because the creators choose, and like those certain styles.

As a designer there is only that much you can do if you don't get support, or get conflicting views from the client (= all the contributors in the project).

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