On 10/22/2014 01:49 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > > On 22 October 2014 01:29, Markus Sabadello <mar...@projectdanube.org > <mailto:mar...@projectdanube.org>> wrote: > > 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. > > > Not sure how much is going to come out of the W3C work, except some > standardization of AS 2.0, opensocial etc. > > You may want to take a look at GOLD. It's a light weight remote > storage file server with access controlled file access. It runs on a > raspberry pi so should easily do well on a plug computer. It's come > out of tim berners-lee's lab at MIT, so as you can expect it's 100% > standards compliant esp. with linked data platform. The focus is on > client side (what you call unhosted) apps. > > https://github.com/linkeddata/gold > > I've been using it lately and the performance is very good, as it's > written in go. I think it makes an ideal match to freedbombox. Yes thanks. When I think of FreedomBox+LDP, I always remember the WebBox <http://people.csail.mit.edu/emax/papers/www2012-webbox.pdf> paper. I was thinking rww.io would be a good fit, but maybe this is better.
When you say GOLD is a "remote storage file server", do you mean it actually speaks Michiel's remoteStorage protocol, or do you just mean client-side/unhosted in general in this case? > PS I met Michiel (from unhosted) a couple of months ago, I think he's > working on a new hosting service which may fit to your ideas, tho you > probably know this already I know a little bit about it, it's very exciting. > > > 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 <http://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 <http://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 <http://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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org > <mailto:Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > >
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