Awesome to see a broader research paper argument link Domain of One’s Own to idea like the block chain, distributed identity management, and more. Very cool. I think one particular bit about Domain of One’s own that might be important to clarify is that the actual pilot started in 2012, and was in planning for almost a year before the MIT hackathon. I think the MIT Hackathon really galvanized broader visions around reclaim as a movement, and led to Reclaim Your Domain and Reclaim Hosting. A bit in the weeds, I know, but the edtech work at UMW since the mid 2000s made much of what would be Domain of One’s Own possible, including folks like Gardner Campbell, Jerry Slezak, Martha Burtis, Andy Rush, and particulary Tim Owens who cam on board in 2011 and built out the infrastructure in 2011 and 2012. In fact, the name came from this post in 2008 on the bava: http://bavatuesdays.com/a-domain-of-ones-own/. And that was still myopic-thinking about mapping domains on WP because the idea of giving faculty and students their own web hosting was unimaginable. Not until ds106 was a laboratory for seeing if students could do this fairly easily dod the whole thing start to seem more and more possible. That when we knew we could run a pilot at UMW in Fall 2012 and have 400 faculty and students actually get their own domain and web ho, but it does provide a bit of context for the 2013 hackathon. Simmering, simmering simmering, meeting Kin and Audrey for the first time brought the whole thing to a boil.