On 5 January 2013 14:22, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Melvin Carvalho (2013-01-05 02:43:28) > > On 29 December 2012 18:30, Petar Petrović <[1][email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > Yes, let's build FreedomBox 1.0 before we build FreedomBox 2.0. > > In my mind, FreedomBox 1.0 is *boring* - it contains no new inventions, > only oldfashioned Debian mechanisms served user-friendly boxed. That in > itself is a *big* milestone for FreedomBox. > > FreedomBox 2.0 is *interesting* - it contains improved ways of doing > stuff classic among geeks, and still does it user-friendly boxed. > > FreedomBox 3.0 is *exciting* - it contains new inventions that have > happened in parallel to our "boring" work, inspired by similar events > that triggered the FreedomBox project but without that tough contraint > of being user-friendly. Of course when those inventions reach > FreedomBox they _are_ provided user-friendly boxed - because that is a > fundamental requirement of FreedomBox. > > We (as in the developers on FreedomBox) HAVE to integrate everything > needed for serving privacy-aware functionality in a user-friendly way. > If we don't, we don't have a FreedomBox, but some other Debian-related > tool or toy. > > > > Yes, I think this is a valid approach. The web was designed to tie > > many systems together via the hyperlink. > > True that the web is about tying many systems together. > > FreedomBox, however, is about protecting privacy, and here it does > matter crucially to have enough functionality locally so as to not leak > privacy when doing said hyperlinking. > > FreedomBox is also about serving non-geeks, and here it is crucial that > all interaction is user-friendly. *ALL* interaction! There is *no* > admin, beyond the user herself/himself! > > > > Of course it would be nice if the integrations could provide a > > seamless user experience, but perhaps that can only happen over > > time... > > If you mean postponing user-friendliness till later, then it sounds to > me like you are talking about something (quite exciting and worthwhile > to try reach but) different from Freedombox. >
+1 to everything Just saying the good user interfaces take time to build ... > > > Regards, > > - Jonas > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss >
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