[Freedombox-discuss] A Simple Server Setup Guide

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 22 August 2011 02:12, Nick Daly <nick.m.daly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Freedombox folks,
>
> I find Eben Moglen's ideals and your project rather inspiring.  I found
> them so inspiring that I decided to see if I could create a
> Freedombox-similar-server to fit my
> dehierarchicalization-through-plug-computer needs.
>
> I think I succeeded.  Right now, my server is running in a VM on my
> laptop (because I don't yet have a plug-computer) and it's not yet
> reachable over the internet (because my router is physically incapable
> of forwarding ports) but, right now, it runs just beautifully inside of
> 128MB RAM, and 2GB disk-space.
>
> Importantly, I wrote up my experiment in a tutorial [0] for any
> like-minded person to follow.  If you have the time and interest, I'd
> appreciate if anyone on the list could give it a read-through and send
> me some feedback on it - improvements, security holes, any comments at
> all, really.  Let me know what you think!
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Nick

Hi Nick

Re: GNU Social

I spoke to Matt Lee recently (FSF) who is lead dev of GNU Social, and
I mentioned your document to him.

He said that GNU Social would be interested to help out with
FreedomBox, but to bear in mind that they are a small team, so to an
extent, have limited capacity to be hands on.

>
> 0: https://bitbucket.org/nickdaly/plugserver/
>
> PS: I'd appreciate if anyone could offer ideas on how to make
> Freedomboxes (or similar servers) reachable over the internet, through
> ISPs that fight *really* hard (through their policies and standard
> hardware) to prevent users from hosting or serving anything.  I'm
> looking for hackier solutions than "change ISPs" because, thanks to the
> monopoly American ISP market, that option's mostly irrelevant.  (Is
> there some sort of DNS alternative out there?)
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