[Freedombox-discuss] Brief overview of last night's meeting at BALug

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

Hi Stefano,

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at maffulli.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Last night I was lucky enough to talk to great people at the Bay Area
> Linux User Group. The group meets in a Chinese restaurant in San
> Francisco’s Chinatown. Good food, nice bar (I had a Campari with Soda,
> inspired by an Italian-American fellow GNU/Linux user) and great
> company. There were about 20 people so we met to talk in the bar after
> dinner. No fancy projectors to hook my computer to but luckily I brought
> my slides with notes printed.
>
> http://maffulli.net/wp-content/uploads/2011-06-freedombox-balug-notes.pdf
>
> We had a nice conversation around privacy, hardware specs of the
> DreamPlug, the status of ARM Linux, the choice of Debian and more.
>
> I pitched the idea to start developing a mobile app to exchange private
> information and OpenPGP fingerprints with the FreedomBox and got at
> least one person interested in going to the Hackaton in Mountain View
> this weekend.
>
> http://www.wipconnector.com/wipjam/entry/the_muther_of_all_hackathons
>
> If you’re interested to go there let me know.

This is a good idea to be able to share OpenPGP fingerprints in this
way.  If someone does a nice implementation, we will probably
incorporate it into Serval Project, or at least try to get a student
to integrate the two.

Also, assuming my flights are not delayed, I should be at the
hackathon for the last few hours with our latest version of our
distributed mesh telephony software, aka, Serval BatPhone.

Look for the slightly jet lagged guy with the Australian accent ;)

Paul.