The infrastructure I'm using to develop HIE of One is another option. Some visitors might prefer to pay $5 for a one month trial. We could even provide a tool so they could migrate their data from the VM FreedomBox to their self-hosted one.
A slightly more elaborate scheme would pass a single $5/mo account among visitors as a kind of "pay it forward". When someone was done demoing their VM and moved their certificates to a self-hosted box, they would pass control to the next visitor on the list. That way, the average trial might be $ 1 or 2 and folks would feel good about moving from hosted to self-hosted. Here's the documentation I have so far for Digital Ocean: https://github.com/HIEofOne/PersonalAS/wiki/Milestone-0:--Install-FreedomBox-as-a-%245-mo-Digital-Ocean-droplet Adrian On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Sunil Mohan Adapa <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/23/2016 11:21 PM, J.D. Bean wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've been playing with Freedombox and lurking here for a while now and > > wanted to raise the issue of setting up some sort of live demonstration > > instance of Freedombox for potential users/contributors to play with > > before. When considering browser-based tools I find that these sorts of > > demonstrations have a strong impact on my interest-level in the project > > and was wondering if anyone had any thoughts about making this kind of > > demonstration a goal for the project? > > > > I'm not sure what sorts of tools are used by other web app projects to > > set up there demo instances and I have a hunch that setting something > > like this up might present some non-negligible technical challenges. > > Some examples of demo instances for web-based projects include: > > Web based demo is indeed a powerful way to spike interest among casual > visitors. I gave a some thought to it a while back without much > conclusion. Here's an idea that could work: > > On a reasonably powerful machine, we could spawn a dozen or so > VMs/containers from a snapshot. We don't allow incoming connections on > these except on web port for interacting with Plinth (this will be a > web-only demo). People can login, install applications, configure > system etc. but they will not be able to use services unless they are > web-base services such as ownCloud. Then every 15 minutes or so, we > will reset all the VMs/containers state to the snapshot state. > > This may be possible with minimal setup and maintenance effort. > > -- > Sunil > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > -- Adrian Gropper MD PROTECT YOUR FUTURE - RESTORE Health Privacy! HELP us fight for the right to control personal health data. DONATE: http://patientprivacyrights.org/donate-2/
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