On 06/08/2011 05:04 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Bdale Garbee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, it does, and I don't understand why that is. When I originally > joined this list, it was pretty well defined 'what' Freedombox would > be: it would be a plug computer that included all of the tools needed > to accomplish Ebens goals and whatever else the group considered > important.
Well it would be a software stack that would run on a plug computer or any other reasonably specced system. :) Essentially you are correct. > Quickly though, that became a 'let's cover everything from > mobile phones to systems on a chip' and I think that devolved the > project to a state where new contributors will have absolutely no idea > where to start because they will have no idea 'what' a FreedomBox > actually is. Mmhmm. > >> We want to provide a way for people to share with others narrowly or >> broadly a set of thoughts and media objects hosted on infrastructure >> they own themselves and thus have ultimate control over, as an >> attractive alternative to such sharing via popular existing services >> that provide little control. > Right. And, for that, the software stack is nearly completely > available now. We can now replace cloud services like documents, file > sharing, chat, email, twitter, Facebook (soon), and even provide an > entire cloud OS if need be. Couple that with existing mesh networking > (I know it's a dirty word) and throw in an encryption layer and you're > almost where you need to be. We're close, if not there, now. Put > these components on a plug or whatever device is decided on, write a > front end configuration tool that doesn't confuse a total newbie, and > you're ready to deploy. Mmhmm. This is what I've been working on for 18 months. Almost to a point of release. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
