Community Distributed Cloud

Is there a place for community run, distributed and open source cloud infrastructure - or does Amazon / Rack-space know best?

Features / Advantages

1. potential massive redundancy
2. free to use locally (cost of local hardware & bandwidth aside)
3. credits to use community resources by contributing:
   
   1. storage
   2. compute time
   3. bandwidth
   4. Development / support of the community cloud solution features
4. enable new class of hardware platform / service paid for by community

Initial applications / services

If your resources are always available, credits could be gained to use the community resource for:

1. raw storage grid
2. raw compute grid
3. off site backup
4. redundant application hosting

After saving up credits, the following applications could be used across many sites for a short period for:

1. Application multi node development and testing
2. render
3. scientific modelling
4. AI