On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Anthony! > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 02:05:31AM -0600, Anthony Papillion wrote: >> >> I read about the Freedom Box about two weeks ago and heard about the >> foundation tonight via Twitter. As both a software developer and a >> privacy/human rights advocate, I am very excited and passionate about what >> Freedom Box offers and I want to help. > > Welcome aboard! > > Contributions can, I believe, be grouped into four areas: > > a) concrete boxing, including software setup automation > b) concrete software package selection and configuration > c) design of technical architecture and user experience > d) development of software pieces and its packaging
[Putting on my asbestos suit] e) Documentation, internal and external f) Public relations (spreading the word, "marketing") > > Some of us here believe that a certain order of above is needed, and/or that > certain leadership (appointed by Eben Moglen?) should rule on that. I > believe we can work on all areas in parallel, and need only friendly > guidance while moving along at our own pace with all of it. > > I also feel it makes best sense to work on d) elsewhere than in this > FreedomBox project and only summarize progress of it here. But again this > is something we do not agree on. > > Some of us feel the need postpone working until we have concensus of some > direction, e.g. which Freedom-enabling technologies we want in "the > FreedomBox" - I guess to not waste time working on areas later dropped. To > me there is not one single FreedomBox but a process of boxing > Freedom-enabling technologies. I encourage everyone to just dive in and work > on what you find most relevant to work with - i.e. fun, easy to reach, and > (seemingly) helpful for progress of this project. I don't worry about > "waste of effort": even if not directly ending up under the "FreedomBox" > label, your contributions may very well end up blossoming in other areas of > the FLOSS ecosystem. +1 > > Lots of concepts have been presented on this list of how to tackle various > freedom-issues. But mostly in the d) area and apparently mostly assuming > that c) is a 2D menu-based web interface like is often seen on SoHo routers > today. > > Might be that the Foundation, with its money boost, can save us all by > telling us what to do and when to do it regarding c), b) and a), but I hope > not. Let's work on all 4 fronts and let that money be spent in the parts of > the world where already money talks - e.g. at the field of hardware > production and marketing, not here in the field of FLOSS software! > > > - Jonas > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private > [snip] _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
