[Freedombox-discuss] Natural market for Freedom Box, responsive interfaces

[Beber Geens]

Ahoy'all!

1st post here, and ever - to a mailinglist.

I'm Beber and I'm an enthusiast of all things that will spark some light 
on these times. Also, I do campaigns, websites, some graphics,... for 
the commons. Sensing where the world is heading and looking for what is 
needed to make it ours, the FreedomBox concept seems essential to me. So 
I was wondering how I, as a not-so-techie, could participate in this 
endeavour.

Having searching/reading a bit though the archive I'm a bit disappointed 
that there hasn't been any talk of users, experience, interface, 
marketing or anything related. The closest I found is a thread on a 
theme for the website/wiki and that spark seems sizzled do death by 'the 
reign of the dev' (no offence intended - dudes, your work is awesome#! - 
just a bit too complexicatiing sometimes), result: no progress. Even 
though I this is an absolute gem of a product and I'm sure you know why 
you're working on this project, it seems to me that 
thinking-outside-of-the-dev-box is somewhat needed here.

As Chris put it, a "way to ensure massive uptake", will be the only way 
to get this puppy to live up to it's potential. And then come the legion 
of 
normies/grannies/moms&pops-ies/kiddies/azerties/could-you-fix-my-computer-ies/you-get-the-picture-ies/... 
in short, your regular nightmare. Now I know very well it's a plug that 
will be doing some very good things just as / out of the box, but for it 
to be truly interesting for the nitwit masses (myself included), it will 
need some serious unique selling proposition(s), need/want fullfillment 
and therefore marketing. Fearmongering is old-dying-world 
(winningthestorywars.com), welcome empowerment!

Also, responsive is a must!

So basically: +1

Arrr,
B