On 02/23/2016 11:21 PM, J.D. Bean wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been playing with Freedombox and lurking here for a while now and > wanted to raise the issue of setting up some sort of live demonstration > instance of Freedombox for potential users/contributors to play with > before. When considering browser-based tools I find that these sorts of > demonstrations have a strong impact on my interest-level in the project > and was wondering if anyone had any thoughts about making this kind of > demonstration a goal for the project? > > I'm not sure what sorts of tools are used by other web app projects to > set up there demo instances and I have a hunch that setting something > like this up might present some non-negligible technical challenges. > Some examples of demo instances for web-based projects include:
Web based demo is indeed a powerful way to spike interest among casual visitors. I gave a some thought to it a while back without much conclusion. Here's an idea that could work: On a reasonably powerful machine, we could spawn a dozen or so VMs/containers from a snapshot. We don't allow incoming connections on these except on web port for interacting with Plinth (this will be a web-only demo). People can login, install applications, configure system etc. but they will not be able to use services unless they are web-base services such as ownCloud. Then every 15 minutes or so, we will reset all the VMs/containers state to the snapshot state. This may be possible with minimal setup and maintenance effort. -- Sunil
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