[Freedombox-discuss] Some advice on moving Plinth forward?

[Alistair Davidson]

The big target for routing / privacy has to be zeroconf. The box has to set
itself up, and only require user intervention if they have an unusual setup
or they want it. A very important technique is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_disclosure , which is the superior
option to having "expert mode"s and the like.

I think we should make the decision now to call any service/webapp/plugin
running on the box an "App". The word annoys the hell out of me but it's
widely understood.

App installation and management seems another obvious thing to include in
early UI; presumably as we proceed this will become more and more central.

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:34 PM, James Vasile <
vasile at freedomboxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:47:46 +1100, Daniel Bryan <danbryan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Not sure whether I've actually posted to the list before but I've been
> > closely following FreedomBox since late 2010.
> >
> > I got a chance to talk to Bdale a little at Linux Conf. Au 2012 and I
> > decided to have a go at hacking on Plinth.
> >
> > I'm keen to get started, and I've been discussing it with Alistair
> > Davidson, who's a UX guy.
> >
> > Basically we want to rapidly prototype a simple end-user service
> > configuration system. Does anyone have an idea of what it'd be really
> good
> > to get up and running? Web server? Routing? GPG / other ident. stuff?
>
> My 0.1 list is basic router config.  We're also going to need some kind
> of user/group ACL interface.  And we need a way to add friends
> (identified by GPG keys) and metadata about them (e.g. petnames).
>
> That's a big enough bite that I hesitate to add more.
>
> >
> > We'll eventually need to have some kind of spec for how a developer can
> > come along and contribute the configuration builder for a given service
> to
> > Plinth in a standard format, but for now I think it'd be best to focus on
> > usability and user experience.
>
> Agreed.
>
> >
> > Has anyone else been looking particularly at this stuff? I'm sort of a
> bit
> > lost for a start, but I have spare time and I reckon I'm a pretty killer
> > Python dev so if I can get some direction to push me over the edge that'd
> > be great :)
>
> I'm fairly focused on the above list as a starting point, but if you
> have suggestions for other things, I'm open to them too.  There's a
> visual list and you can post designs there if you want.  We could also
> schedule a time to meet on IRC to hash out some stuff in real time.
>
> Best regards,
> James
>
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