Diaspora - IndieGoGo Campaign for Account Backup/Migration

My name is Senya and I am a software developer from Russia with 7 years experience of commercial software development. I've been participating in diaspora for the past six months and already have some code merged in the upstream (and here is some from the diaspora_federation gem). There are a plenty of jobs available for a programmer such as myself, but I dream of doing something fundamentally important and don't wish to waste my time participating in yet another company's commercial product.

The feature I propose to implement is an account backup/restore (also referred to as account migration). This is one of the oldest open issues on the issue tracker. In a federated social network such as diaspora, you choose a node in the network (a ‘pod’) on which to open your account and store your personal data. Over time, however, you might want to move your data to another pod: perhaps a pod has opened for a community you’re involved in, perhaps your current pod isn’t performing so well, or perhaps you want to set up a pod of your own so that you have complete control of your data.