Privacy-respecting PIM tool
Personal information management in an isolated Mirage unikerel
Some libre tools for Personal Information Management (PIM) exist, but most users still rely on proprietary hosted services to store their calendars and contacts. Obviously, this is sensitive information and so privacy-respecting, self-hostable alternatives would be preferable. This project develops a MirageOS unikernel, which only contains the pieces strictly necessary - a tiny virtual machine. The strict separation of code and data means updating the code is straightforward, only affects this one unikernel, and can also easily be rolled back. This has significant security benefits: minimal attack surface, memory-safe programming language. It also helps with sustainability, as it uses minimal CPU and memory.
- The project's own website: https://robur.coop
Run by Robur
This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
