[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox - "Danube Edition"

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 22 October 2014 01:29, Markus Sabadello <markus at projectdanube.org> wrote:

>  Hello list,
>
> So here's the story.. I have an opportunity to build 100 CubieTrucks with
> a nice box and a SATA drive and I would like to call them FreedomBox -
> "Danube Edition", and sell them just at the price it costs to build them. I
> can present this at the upcoming Elevate festival in Graz and the Internet
> Identity Workshop in Mountain View, I have already demo'd FreedomBox at
> both events (and others) several times in the past.
>
> I'd be interested in feedback on any or all of the following..
>
> 1. Is this a good idea? I made this webpage:
> http://projectdanube.org/freedombox/
> So the message would basically be "you can get one, you can try to use it
> and learn about it, but don't rely on it".
> I noticed you just discussed how FreedomBox was not ready for the next
> Debian stable, but I think some people who don't know the command line
> would still want one.
>
> 2. I would like to help add a few things to the box. Most importantly,
> support for the Unhosted project, we already dreamed about this 2 years
> ago
> <http://blog.projectdanube.org/2012/06/freedombox-unhosted-pagekite-for-access-innovation-prize-2012/>,
> and it works really well. Another idea would be something that comes out of
> the current W3C Social Web work, as well as the IndieWeb community.
>

Not sure how much is going to come out of the W3C work, except some
standardization of AS 2.0, opensocial etc.

You may want to take a look at GOLD.  It's a light weight remote storage
file server with access controlled file access.  It runs on a raspberry pi
so should easily do well on a plug computer.  It's come out of tim
berners-lee's lab at MIT, so as you can expect it's 100% standards
compliant esp. with linked data platform.  The focus is on client side
(what you call unhosted) apps.

https://github.com/linkeddata/gold

I've been using it lately and the performance is very good, as it's written
in go.  I think it makes an ideal match to freedbombox.

PS I met Michiel (from unhosted) a couple of months ago, I think he's
working on a new hosting service which may fit to your ideas, tho you
probably know this already



>
> 3. I already managed to build a working FreedomBox image for CubieTruck,
> using freedom-maker and a mainline kernel and some similar steps as with
> the recently added Beaglebone support. I'll try to submit a pull request
> soon. This does require a modified version of vmdebootstrap, since on
> CubieTruck the bootloader must go into a special space between the
> partition table and the first partition. I think I found some information
> out there by Neil Williams who is aware of this? Basically I think
> vmdebootstrap should have a new parameter that can leave this extra space
> empty, and then freedom-maker can specify that parameter and install the
> bootloader afterwards. For now I summarized what I did to make it work
> here <https://github.com/peacekeeper/freedom-maker/wiki/OS-Start>.
>
> 4. I worked on setting up a PageKite service under the domain
> freedombox.me, and I wrote a Perl script that integrates the PageKite
> server, a DNS server, and a Redis database, to dynamically register new DNS
> names and PageKite tunnels given a "voucher code". This is all similar to
> how pagekite.me works. So I imagine, if you get a FreedomBox, you also
> get one of these "voucher codes" and can choose a something.freedombox.me
> subdomain. Michael Pimmer ("fonfon") has been working on a Plinth extension
> that can do this registration during Plinth's first-boot phase. I described
> the whole setup here <https://github.com/peacekeeper/freedomkite>.
>
> Thoughts? Maybe we can chat on IRC at some point ("peacekeeper").
>
> Markus
>
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