On 11 February 2012 15:34, James Vasile <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Is there a universal way of identifying a GPG key other than PEM/DER? Do you sometimes use fingerprint? I wonder if you've considered using the digest URI scheme di: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hallambaker-digesturi-02 I'm doing a lot of work on the Web lately with ACLs and URIs. Of course there's already http:// and mailto: and acct: (webfinger) to describe URLs and email like ids. I'd be interested to hear how it may be possible integrate GPG stuff. > >> >> 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 _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
