[Freedombox-discuss] Confused about this project

[James Vasile]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 21:58:48 +0000, Clint Adams <clint at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:40:24PM -0600, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> > When I joined the list about a week and a half ago, I thought that the
> > goal of the project was to create a Freedom Box based on a pluggable
> > computer like the SheevaPlug or PogoPlug. From what I read, the hardware
> > platform had pretty much been decided and all that was left was to
> > create a software stack.
> 
> You are correct.  The project is to integrate software on a plug
> computer, running Debian.  If it runs on other platforms, great,
> but that is not the main focus.
> 
> I agree that the first step in that is ease of administration, as
> described by John Gilmore[0].  Unfortunately, it seems that most
> of us find that step to be the least interesting to work on.

I threw together some web infrastructure that we might hang a UI on.
(It's the one I showed you a few weeks ago.)  Maybe I'll have time to
clean it up this weekend and get it in a repo.