[Freedombox-discuss] Leaving the (proprietary) cloud - my roadmap for FB

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 07:53:39PM +0200, bertagaz wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 06:44:42PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Email by design puts the burden on the recipient, which makes it
>> beneficial for spammers.
>>
>> Other relay mechanisms, like XMPP, have different designs less
>> beneficial for spammers, and thus less resource hungry.
>>
>> We want to bridge central and decentral social networking.  In 
>> relation to relayed messaging we can...
>>
>>  1) Receive central email messaging via imap mirroring
>>  2) Read and write messages via FreedomBox
>>  3) Send based on FreedomBox relationship knowledge and pririties...
>>     a) to XMPP-capable friends using XMPP
>>     b) to SIMPLE-capable friends using SIP/SIMPLE
>>     c) to SMPP-capable friends using GSM text messages
>>     d) to status.net-capable friends using status.net
>>     ...
>>     z) to others using smtp
>>
>> First step in the above is 1) and 3z), coupled with an smtp-only 
>> message processor (read: a webmail app).  Then if/when we succeed in 
>> enhancing/replacing the message processor to support pluggable 
>> transport mechanisms, we can add more routes, and make the smtp route 
>> optional too, for purists wanting to insist on decentral routing for 
>> the messaging part of their FreedomBox.
>
>That's a nice plan, but ambitious. Would ask a lot more work but would 
>be great to see it becoming reality. In the meantime, I guess we can 
>use basic already existing service setup :)

Ambitious == long-term

Basic already existing service setup == First step: 1) and 3z)


>> I will most likely be _very_ interested in improvements in this area 
>> - for other projects of mine: Organizations of 20-100 users running 
>> semi-centrally on Mini-ITX size iron.  But I would only want my 
>> non-geek friends to use ARM-grade SheevaPlugs privately, not 
>> Atom-grade Mini-ITX machines.
>
>What is the problem wit mini-itx for non-geek?

Power consumption. Size. Price. Too many plugs and cables and buttons.


[cut! - my family wants my machine to watch a movie now!]


  - Jonas

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