I think that we don't HAVE to integrate everything, at least not during the initial development. I think we should focus on building a software stack, and then at some point, we can decide if deep integration is worth the effort. Of course, I am always open for different opinions and ideas.
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Melvin Carvalho <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On 29 December 2012 01:52, Petar Petrović <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been following this project for a while now, and I must say that I >> love the idea a lot. I've been doing something similar on a VPS of my own >> for quite some time now, but FBX seems like a lot more elegant solution. >> >> Usually, I would build my own personal stack, like a mail server, >> ownCloud and Diaspora*. But, there's just something wrong about all of this >> - you need to go through this list and install every software package one >> by one, until you build a full stack. The other problem is, these tools are >> not really integrated with each other (though, there are some partial >> solutions like Kolab, etc). >> >> What I would like to see is a full software stack that can be deployed >> out of the box with minimal integration efforts with other system software. >> Wouldn't it be nice if we could have a single application that would act as >> a social network, webmail interface and Personal Data Storage appliance? I >> think this is the idea worth considering. >> >> Since I am fairly familiar with PHP and have started digging into Node.js >> recently, I am willing to take part in building something like this. Yes, >> we can't do this overnight and this would be a lot of work, but I think it >> would be worth the effort. We could build a software stack that would be >> aimed at families as well as individuals. FBX has the potential to >> become the next big home server solution, and having something like this >> would be extremely nice and useful. >> > > A worthwhile idea, but would be a challenge to build. I think it's safe > to say that FBX will support GPG as a form of identity, and hopefully a web > identity on your profile page too. It would be a case of integrating the > apps you want into one stack using, for example, PKI public/private key > technology. > > Integration is quite hard, it's not only a case creating the technology. > In some projects the challenge is to write the patch (and in some cases > it's impossible), in others it's to get the patch accepted into the > codebase. > > >> >> Just a thought of mine. >> >> >> -- >> Petar Petrović >> [email protected] >> +381693264465 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedombox-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss >> > > -- Petar Petrović [email protected] +381693264465
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