On 22 October 2014 01:29, Markus Sabadello <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello list, > > So here's the story.. I have an opportunity to build 100 CubieTrucks with > a nice box and a SATA drive and I would like to call them FreedomBox - > "Danube Edition", and sell them just at the price it costs to build them. I > can present this at the upcoming Elevate festival in Graz and the Internet > Identity Workshop in Mountain View, I have already demo'd FreedomBox at > both events (and others) several times in the past. > > I'd be interested in feedback on any or all of the following.. > > 1. Is this a good idea? I made this webpage: > http://projectdanube.org/freedombox/ > So the message would basically be "you can get one, you can try to use it > and learn about it, but don't rely on it". > I noticed you just discussed how FreedomBox was not ready for the next > Debian stable, but I think some people who don't know the command line > would still want one. > > 2. I would like to help add a few things to the box. Most importantly, > support for the Unhosted project, we already dreamed about this 2 years > ago > <http://blog.projectdanube.org/2012/06/freedombox-unhosted-pagekite-for-access-innovation-prize-2012/>, > and it works really well. Another idea would be something that comes out of > the current W3C Social Web work, as well as the IndieWeb community. > Not sure how much is going to come out of the W3C work, except some standardization of AS 2.0, opensocial etc. You may want to take a look at GOLD. It's a light weight remote storage file server with access controlled file access. It runs on a raspberry pi so should easily do well on a plug computer. It's come out of tim berners-lee's lab at MIT, so as you can expect it's 100% standards compliant esp. with linked data platform. The focus is on client side (what you call unhosted) apps. https://github.com/linkeddata/gold I've been using it lately and the performance is very good, as it's written in go. I think it makes an ideal match to freedbombox. PS I met Michiel (from unhosted) a couple of months ago, I think he's working on a new hosting service which may fit to your ideas, tho you probably know this already > > 3. I already managed to build a working FreedomBox image for CubieTruck, > using freedom-maker and a mainline kernel and some similar steps as with > the recently added Beaglebone support. I'll try to submit a pull request > soon. This does require a modified version of vmdebootstrap, since on > CubieTruck the bootloader must go into a special space between the > partition table and the first partition. I think I found some information > out there by Neil Williams who is aware of this? Basically I think > vmdebootstrap should have a new parameter that can leave this extra space > empty, and then freedom-maker can specify that parameter and install the > bootloader afterwards. For now I summarized what I did to make it work > here <https://github.com/peacekeeper/freedom-maker/wiki/OS-Start>. > > 4. I worked on setting up a PageKite service under the domain > freedombox.me, and I wrote a Perl script that integrates the PageKite > server, a DNS server, and a Redis database, to dynamically register new DNS > names and PageKite tunnels given a "voucher code". This is all similar to > how pagekite.me works. So I imagine, if you get a FreedomBox, you also > get one of these "voucher codes" and can choose a something.freedombox.me > subdomain. Michael Pimmer ("fonfon") has been working on a Plinth extension > that can do this registration during Plinth's first-boot phase. I described > the whole setup here <https://github.com/peacekeeper/freedomkite>. > > Thoughts? Maybe we can chat on IRC at some point ("peacekeeper"). > > Markus > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss >
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