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wiki Crosscloud OVH : Hébergement Internet, Cloud, et Serveurs dédiés unhosted web apps: definition cloudos The Advent of the Cloud OS Phillip J. Windley, Ph.D., Kynetx Other Authors in this Series Craig Burton, KuppingerCole Scott David, K&L Gates, LLP Drummond Reed, Respect Network Corp. Doc Searls, The Searls Group April 2012 The Live Web Series sets forth a vision for the future of the Internet and our interactions on it. There’s no doubt that clouds are big business. While much of the growth in cloud computing is in the enterprise space—especially infrastructure and platform plays like Amazon and Rackspace—there is significant activity in the area of personal cloud computing. Through their personal cloud offerings, companies like AppleTM, GoogleTM, and FacebookTM vie for the attention of Internet users. While offerings in the personal cloud space provide real utility for users, they are limited in several important ways. First, each of these offerings is an appliance. Second, these personal cloud offerings are silos, standing alone and apart with only limited interconnectivity.

SpaceAPI | hackerspaces.nl This document and any discussion relating to it is maintained at the SpaceApi github repository . The HackerSpace Status API proposes a unified syntax to publish information about a hackerspace for consumption by javascript widgets, mobile apps and other scripts or programs. The API is flexible, and allows for custom extensions. The API is based on JSON, and defines the properties of the space status JSON object. Implementors are encourage to check their JSON for validity against this specification by using Slopjong’s spaceapi validator . Receivers of the object must be able to parse all mandatory fields, and may interpret the optional fields. In addition to the fields defined below, a publisher is free to add any custom fields. Hosting considerations In order to be able to retrieve the object from within a javascript sandbox, the server of the JSON object should set the ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header with a value of ‘*’. Space directory The space status directory can be found on:

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