2016-12-19 14:41 GMT+05:00 Samuli Seppänen <sam...@openvpn.net>:
> Hi,
>
> Il 17/12/2016 16:44, Илья Шипицин ha scritto:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I discussed this earlier with @mattock, however, there are more ideas :)
>>
>> 1) what do you think of participating GSoC in general ?
>>
>
> In general that is probably a good idea. That said, we'd need somebody to
> mentor the student, and that can take quite a lot of time.
>
> OpenVPN itself is probably too much for a student that may have fairly
> limited C programming/networking/cross-platform experience. Our other
> projects might be better candidates for a GSoC student.
>
> 2) there are at least 2 ideas which I wished to be done with GSoC
>>
>> 2a) "import ovpn from URL for network-manager-openvpn" (actually, it is
>> perfect way to deliver config to android/ios/whatever", but linux
>> network-manager is missing that
>>
>
> So one could give an URL to network-manager and it would import the
> configuration? Can network-manager-openvpn import configuration files today?
>
it seems, it depends on network-manager version.
on fedora 23 I cannot import files, but on ubuntu I can.
I'll have a deeper look.
from user point of view, it would be nice to import ovpn config from
somewhere. either local file, or url.
>
> I also wonder if this should be a GSoC project for network-manager, not
> OpenVPN...
>
it might be anybody's project.
>
>
>> 2b) "Start before logon" thing for openvpn-gui
>>
>
> Do you mean "Start on logon", as in
>
> "Automatically run openvpn-gui.exe --connect <config-file> on login"
>
https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/77
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Samuli Seppänen
> Community Manager
> OpenVPN Technologies, Inc
>
> irc freenode net: mattock
>
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