[Freedombox-discuss] Introductions

[Chris Wj]

Hi all, I'm Chris (ChrisK on the wiki). I'm not a Debian dev, but I was
greatly inspired by the latest debconf videos. I have a CS and Software
Engineering background and can hack on C/C++, Python, Vala, basic
Javascript, etc (just don't make me code Java! Me <---10 ft pole---> Java).
I will help in any way to make this device a reality. I think we need a few
(3ish) (Design, Architecture, Community) project leads to really organize
people and set some structure to the project. It looks like many people are
itching to contribute, which is awesome.

-Chris

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Ethan Frey <ethan at chaostheater.net> wrote:

> Hi, I'm Ethan Frey, a Debian/Linux user and (web) programmer.  I also saw
> the videos of Eben Moglen from Debconf and was quite inspired to help make
> this a reality.  I was very happy to find there was already a group
> brainstorming how to make this happen, and I agree with Lars' proposal to
> have some short-term targets to aim for.  This helps us see the project
> proceed and have more context (and a testground) for harder issues like a
> p2p distributed,  encrypted, highly available filesystem that is resistant
> to abuse (which is a great goal, but quite demanding as a starting-point).
> I am not a debian developer and don't feel in the position to prepare
> packages,  but I would like to contribute my time and skills to the
> project.
>
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:40:03 +0200, Bruno BEAUFILS <bruno at boulgour.com>
> wrote:
> > One the one hand I really think that we should be able to offer a
> > solid framework to developpers so that thay can imagine any services
> > they want to offer. On the other hand we need to offer reference net
> > services we need to be at least, IMHO :
> >
> > * mail server (with webmail)
> >
> > * web server (with blog/wiki/cms tool)
> >
> > * calendar server (with webclient)
> >
> > * instant messaging server (jabber or something like that)
> >
> > * file server (with web access to certain part, typically photos)
>
>
> I agree that these webapps are pretty much the basis of a box that would
> be useful to your average (non-programmer/admin) user. There are many more
> features that would be great to have, such as GPG encryption with a network
> of trust, distributed filesystems/backups, a distributed social network,
> plug-and-play PBX system, tor routing, etc. But I also  see the value of
> having a usable box sooner rather than later, when there is the time to
> implement all the hard (interesting) features.  There is already a
> commercial software trying to do something like this basic feature set (at
> least web server, calendar, and file server):
>
> http://www.tonidoplug.com/tonido_plug.html
>
> I would like to work to prepare some of webapps to be deployed on an early
> version of the box (eg. Alpha 4 in Lars' model).  The most interesting to
> me is a webmail client.  I envision something like this:
>
>  * Modern interface (eg. something like gmail with conversations and
> labels)
>  * Easily aggregate mails from multiple POP/IMAP/webmail servers (yahoo,
> hotmail, gmail, etc.)
>  * Receive and send mail directly from a local (qmail?) server
>  * Support GPG encryption/decryption on the server (eventually tied into
> other services and the web of trust)
>  ** Nice UI design and AJAX-y responsiveness would be a plus
>
> I looked for some webmail apps and most of them work like IMAP clients,
> and do not and cannot support conversations/labels.  Posterity seems like a
> nice candidate, as it mostly supports the first three requirements, and is
> writen in Python (not PHP :).  However, the development seems to be
> abandoned about 2 years ago.  I am thinking of shaking the cobwebs off the
> code and extending some of the functionality to match the above
> description.
>
> http://posterity.edgewall.org/wiki/Screenshots
>
> Does this seem like a useful project to help out with the freedom box?  Do
> the set of requirements seem good, or is there some big features I am
> forgetting?  And is anyone else out here a Python coder that wants to work
> on this as well?  Or does someone know the perfect webmail client that does
> all this already?
>
> I'm looking forward to getting to work and seeing what we can create
> together.
>
> Cheers,
>  Ethan
>
>
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