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. 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
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