<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Hi Melvin, </div><div><br></div><div>I'm glad you've already had a chance to try out Retroshare.</div><div>We've improved a bunch of things since last year, especially firewalled connections.</div><div><br></div><div>The GUI remains a little bit "Retro"... hence the name ;) </div><div>We hope to get a Web Interface in place - which should make Retroshare </div><div>more suitable for mini-server based system like the freedombox</div><div><br></div><div>As Keith pointed out, we build packages for both debian and ubuntu systems, </div><div>though we are not officially part of the debian distribution...</div><div><br></div><div>Is this important/essential for inclusion in the freedombox?</div><div><br></div><div>Mark. </div><br><div><div>On 8 Sep 2011, at 03:04, <a href="mailto:freedombox-discuss-request@lists.alioth.debian.org">freedombox-discuss-request@lists.alioth.debian.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 15:46:36 +0200<br>From: Melvin Carvalho <<a href="mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com">melvincarvalho@gmail.com</a>><br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org">freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Is FreedomBox interested in using<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Retroshare?<br>Message-ID:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><<a href="mailto:CAKaEYhLGivQwzmYqBejXc+f8M80=vUGkMUA2cWHPyr82Z80Odg@mail.gmail.com">CAKaEYhLGivQwzmYqBejXc+f8M80=vUGkMUA2cWHPyr82Z80Odg@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>On 7 September 2011 14:27, drbob <<a href="mailto:drbob@lunamutt.com">drbob@lunamutt.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi FreedomBoxers,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I was directed towards your project by a friend. I'd seen Eben Moglen's TED talk previously<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">but had no idea that there was a debian project to create such a system.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I've been working on a project (Retroshare) with similar goals for a number of years:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://retroshare.org/">http://retroshare.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Are you interested in using Retroshare, or its components for your FreedomBox?<br></blockquote><br>I tried this about a year ago with some of the gnu social people.<br><br>Back then it worked pretty well, tho the interface was slightly basic in places.<br><br>Do you know if it's a debian package?<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">As mentioned earlier on this list, this is a do-o-cracy type project...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and I can offer some limited time to adapt Retroshare into something useful for FreedomBox.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Retroshare an Open Source (LGPL core/GPL gui) application to provide a Secure Social Network.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It uses/provides lots of the technologies that you've described in this mailing-list.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">1) OpenGPG Web-Of-Trust for Authenticating your Friends.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">2) Direct SSL connections between Peers.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">3) A DHT-based system to locate your Peers.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">4) UDP Firewall-busting connections.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">5) Discovery System to Introduce you to Friends-Of-Friends.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">6) services like chat, file-sharing, forums, etc, etc.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">As I said, I would love to get involved, and more than willing to modify things to make RS<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">useful in general.... perhaps modify libretroshare to provide a pseudo-VPN for other services?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mark.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Freedombox-discuss mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org">Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></body></html>