[liberationtech] OpenWatch History

[Karl]

Cecilia,

Your strong ability to stay positive and express care at all times is
inspiring to me.  Thank you.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 8:48 AM Cecilia Tanaka <cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi, Karl...  Hope you are feeling happy and healthy!  :D
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> From: Karl <gmkarl at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 06:40
> Subject: OpenWatch History
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>
> Has anybody heard of the cell phone app OpenWatch?
>
> It used to run at https://www.openwatch.net/ and let anybody upload video
> recordings live and secretly from their mobile phone, and publicized them.
> Page archives show it came out of Boston and San Francisco.
>
> Since it was focused on monitoring of authorities, it makes sense it would
> have struggled as this could spread power in ways that are harder for
> authorities to control, making their various tasks more difficult, and
> possibly pitting the urgent engine of control of crime against the project.
>
> I don't see any evidence of OpenWatch having planned to discontinue, or
> notifying the public they were.  There is nobody on their irc channel, and
> their twitter account has been deleted.  Their github has an open
> improvement branch that is unmerged, and no following developer activity
> since.
>
> Nowadays there are services like https://siasky.net/ and
> https://bico.media/ and some others, that can connect with reliable
> decentralized storage backed by the strength of a blockchain.  As
> blockchains rise it is becoming easier to support apps like OpenWatch in
> ways that won't disappear very readily.  bico.media may go down some day,
> but the data uploaded is still stored permanently on the blockchain behind
> it, and the app that stores that data could be stored on that blockchain as
> well.
>
> I was wondering if anybody knew the story of what happened to OpenWatch,
> or if anybody was interested in resurrecting OpenWatch's work with a little
> motion towards migrating onto a blockchain.
> https://github.com/OpenWatch/OpenWatch-Android
>
> Maybe planning for disruption a little could make project development
> ideas that last longer.  Like clear instructions for newcomers to rebuild
> after developers disperse.
>
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