Obnam community

Obnam is going to be an encrypting, de-duplicating, secure, and fast backup software implementation that's easy and convenient to use. I've been developing a new generation of Obnam for a couple of years now. So far I have mostly been exploring architectural and implementation design choices on my own. Obnam is now getting close to actually being able to make and restore backups. In a sense, it's becoming real. Open source software tends to be healthier and more useful to more people for longer if there is a supportive community around it. I would like to build such a community around Obnam. This blog post is the start of that. By community I mean a group of people with a shared interest in the software, who also feel they belong together, and who are interested in nurturing the community and software. I've been been building Obnam for my personal use and also because I can't stop thinking about the many fascinating technical problems of implementing backup software. As long as I'm…