On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:47:46 +1100, Daniel Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Not sure whether I've actually posted to the list before but I've been > closely following FreedomBox since late 2010. > > I got a chance to talk to Bdale a little at Linux Conf. Au 2012 and I > decided to have a go at hacking on Plinth. > > I'm keen to get started, and I've been discussing it with Alistair > Davidson, who's a UX guy. > > Basically we want to rapidly prototype a simple end-user service > configuration system. Does anyone have an idea of what it'd be really good > to get up and running? Web server? Routing? GPG / other ident. stuff?
My 0.1 list is basic router config. We're also going to need some kind of user/group ACL interface. And we need a way to add friends (identified by GPG keys) and metadata about them (e.g. petnames). That's a big enough bite that I hesitate to add more. > > We'll eventually need to have some kind of spec for how a developer can > come along and contribute the configuration builder for a given service to > Plinth in a standard format, but for now I think it'd be best to focus on > usability and user experience. Agreed. > > Has anyone else been looking particularly at this stuff? I'm sort of a bit > lost for a start, but I have spare time and I reckon I'm a pretty killer > Python dev so if I can get some direction to push me over the edge that'd > be great :) I'm fairly focused on the above list as a starting point, but if you have suggestions for other things, I'm open to them too. There's a visual list and you can post designs there if you want. We could also schedule a time to meet on IRC to hash out some stuff in real time. Best regards, James _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
