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    On 3/17/11 5:22 PM, James Vasile wrote:
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      <pre wrap="">I can't wait to see your ideas!  Add them at the wiki
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/UserRequirements/BrainStorm">&lt;http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/UserRequirements/BrainStorm&gt;</a> or add
them to this thread.  I'll move ideas from email to the wiki as
appropriate.
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    FWIW, I started brainstorming on my own over here:<br>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://decafbad.com/2011/03/freedombox-wishlist.md">http://decafbad.com/2011/03/freedombox-wishlist.md</a><br>
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    Some of these might be more feasible or desirable than others:<br>
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      <ul>
        <li><a href="http://openvpn.net/">OpenVPN</a>
          <ul>
            <li>Secure connections to the FreedomBox and other home
              servers from out and about</li>
            <li>Secure connections from out and about through FreedomBox</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="https://www.torproject.org/">Tor</a>
          <ul>
            <li>For network traffic privacy</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a
            href="http://hg.mozilla.org/users/telliott_mozilla.com/sync-server">Firefox
            Sync</a>
          <ul>
            <li>Private Firefox sync server</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="https://github.com/lloyd/blobastorus">Blobastorus</a>
          <ul>
            <li>Self-hosted micro-storage for open web apps</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="http://www.telehash.org/">TeleHash</a>
          <ul>
            <li>Distributed hash table</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="http://en.znc.in/wiki/ZNC">ZNC</a>
          <ul>
            <li>IRC proxy, allows SSL in and out</li>
            <li>Maybe needs to be accompanied with an IRC server?</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll">Jekyll</a>
          <ul>
            <li>Blogging tool that produces static files</li>
            <li>Other tools?
              <ul>
                <li><a href="http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/">NanoBlogger</a></li>
                <li><a href="http://www.blosxom.com/">Bloxsom</a></li>
                <li><a
                    href="http://pyblosxom.bluesock.org/1.5/deploy_staticrendering.html">PyBloxsom</a></li>
                <li><a href="http://www.movabletype.org/">Movable Type</a></li>
              </ul>
            </li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="https://pagekite.net/">Pagekite</a>
          <ul>
            <li>For local hosting of an origin server for web content</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="https://github.com/lmorchard/dumpcarton">Dumpcarton</a>
          <ul>
            <li>One-way directory publishing to static Amazon S3 hosting</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>Private Dropbox clone
          <ul>
            <li>Multi-way sync between devices</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>XMPP server of some sort?
          <ul>
            <li>Or, is this better left to more "permanent" servers?</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="http://editor.opml.org/">OPML Editor</a> and other
          Dave Winer software:
          <ul>
            <li>Difficult, since it has an integrated GUI that can't
              easily be run headless.</li>
            <li><a
                href="http://frontiernews.org/2011/02/16/setting-up-a-radio2-server/">Radio2</a></li>
            <li><a href="http://newsriver.org/river2.html">River2</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>Microblogging server
          <ul>
            <li>Embrace / extend
              <ul>
                <li>Act as client for Twitter, Facebook, etc</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li>Publishing
              <ul>
                <li>Build static HTML and feeds</li>
                <li>Auto-sync to Amazon S3, FTP, rsync, etc</li>
                <li>Ping PubSubHubBub / rssCloud servers</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li>Aggregation
              <ul>
                <li>TweetDeck replacement UI</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li>Discovery
              <ul>
                <li>Syndicate follower / followed lists?</li>
                <li>Gossip-style OpenSearch?</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>OpenID provider?
          <ul>
            <li>By way of Pagekite or the like?</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>Salmon client for commenting on sites?</li>
        <li>NAS features?
          <ul>
            <li>Cross-site backups
              <ul>
                <li>Friends and family trading off-site backups</li>
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li>Streaming media access</li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
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