There is a ticket opened on qubes for personas. Time to poke and make Freedom Of Press foundation into this. And tailor salt recipes to be deployed for those personas.
My 2 cents On May 9, 2020 2:55:57 AM UTC, Logan <lo...@threatmodel.io> wrote: >Hi Catacombs, > >This is an important topic. It actually is my intention to come up with >a list of tweaks that a less tech-savvy journalist could benefit from. > >I am not versed in customizing or automating Linux installs via scripts, >but a motivated designer could engineer such a tool for a more visually >appealing turn-key installation that is closer to "just works" than the >"hack it to perfection" experience most of us have had with Qubes. > >The matter exists that Qubes is a completely different way of computing, >though. A structured training program may be beneficial to these groups. > >If an organization or group were created to promote the use of Qubes and >provide custom tools and training to journalists this could be quite a >benefit to the community as a whole. > >What would it take to get a working group together for this? I'm >definitely interested in working on something like it. > >Logan > >On 5/9/20 12:47 AM, Sven Semmler wrote: >> On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 04:12:57PM -0700, Catacombs wrote: >>> It is not my intention to provide a list of things to put in the basic OS >>> for an Investigator who is not what I would term, a techno geek, nor who >>> does not want to be. It is to find out what has been discussed in the past >>> about this subject, and for some of you, who are more experienced with >>> QUBE's, and investigators, to put that list together, and perhaps build >>> that list into the basic Install of QUBE's. >> Hi Catacombs, >> >> your points are valid. One thing I am aware of is the the Freedom of the >> Press Foundation is using Qubes and that there is at least one UX >> designer thinking about usability and contributing actively to Qubes. >> You will see these improvement over time. >> >> Another thing all of us "techno geeks" can do in the meantime is to >> monitor this mailing list and maybe even the IRC channel and help as >> many users as possible. >> >> I think the standard Fedora template has a pretty solid list of default >> apps installed. But for sure there could be more tutorial style videos, >> better documentation, maybe even tailored templates. I don't know what a >> Journalist needs - do you? >> >> To some degree I think the core Qubes team wants to stay out of the >> 'what should be included in the default template' discussion as there >> are as many opinions as discussion participants. There is even an FAQ >> entry about it: >> https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#could-you-please-make-my-preference-the-default >> >> I understand this is not exactly what you asked for and a GUI text >> editor and a video player are pretty standard things. I am surprised >> they weren't there. >> >> /Sven >> >> -- >> public key: https://www.svensemmler.org/0x8F541FB6.asc >> fingerprint: D7CA F2DB 658D 89BC 08D6 A7AA DA6E 167B 8F54 1FB6 > > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"qubes-users" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >To view this discussion on the web visit >https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/66b09d50-223f-9c73-dac5-e9a12032c6b2%40threatmodel.io. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/58EF99F2-B73B-4B9E-AC1D-5713C842249B%40gmail.com.
