On 09/27/2011 05:57 PM, Jim Tarvid wrote: > This is silly. We don't have anything to promote. Can we come up with > something we can promote in the near term?
Agreed. Would it be beneficial to promote FreedomBox to the general public at this point? Some may call it education. In the commercial world -- where products regularly die from mismatch between marketing buzz and what developers deliver -- it's called vaporware. Discussions on this list pertaining to identity, anonymity, decentralization and usability issues demonstrate, to my eye at least, that what FreedomBox must do is vastly tougher than Just Another NAS. It explains the slow pace towards an alpha version. So far I've taken baby steps -- purchasing three plug computers, figuring out how to re-flash them, installing Debian, familiarizing myself with Tor, etc. I hope to do more, and eventually contribute something substantive. If anything -- and this message is the first and last list posting I'm going to make, until I've got something to talk about -- I'd say this project *does* need someone who can winnow and prioritize v1.0 features and identify what is missing and how to get it, so there is a chance of releasing this thing before ACTA or some other unholy cabal of legislators and lobbyists makes it de-facto illegal. Best, Patty A. Hardy _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
