[Freedombox-discuss] Would like to contribute (code)

[Rick C. Hodgin]

James,

I am interested in participating in this project.  I will have to come
up to speed on some of these packages and technologies you're talking
about.  Is there a time where developers meet on IRC somewhere?  Or is
there someone who has done some development with which I could
communicate offline to come up to speed?

I can think of few grander endeavors in the area of freedom than to
complete this project.  Free software atop truly free (and anonymous)
communication ... it completes the circle.

- Rick C. Hodgin

On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 19:35 -0500, James Vasile wrote:
> I periodically cough up a task list and see if anybody bites.  I'll do
> that again here.
> 
> There is indeed an effort afoot to put together the GUI.
> http://github.com/jvasile/Plinth
> 
> Right now I'm extending that to listen for connections (via a tor hidden
> service) to do basic, initial conversation so two freedomboxes can find
> each other and agree on how to do further conversation, tell each other
> about services offered, etc.
> 
> We continue to need somebody to integrate monkeysphere and mod_tls so we
> can replace the identity auth part of ssl with gpg and web of trust.
> This is necessary to solve the MITM problem associated with self-signed
> ssl certs.
> 
> One thing stopping the GUI is that I'm not quite sure what the config
> layer looks like.  How do you translate user's option choices into
> system config in a way that ensures sane config results and allows
> expert users to twiddle /etc themselves and can also handle systems with
> many different mixes of packages?
> 
> If somebody would extend FreedomMaker so a base install had an easy
> button in to turn a dreamplug into a very basic wifi router and do a
> config for it in Plinth, that would be incredibly helpful.
> 
> There are other things, but those are what comes to mind immediately. If
> you look at http://freedomboxfoundation.org/code, that's the current
> state of things.
> 
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:04:33 -0500, "Rick C. Hodgin" <foxmuldrster at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I too am interested, but have not heard a response yet.
> > 
> > On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 15:26 -0600, Nightman wrote:
> > > Hello, I saw Eben's videos about freedombox, and I'd like to contribute
> > > to try to help get this project up and running.  So...  how can I do
> > > this?  What's currently the short-term target being worked on right now,
> > > and where can I help?  Is Bdale's repository the official up-to-date one
> > > for the freedombox project?
> > > 
> > > 
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