<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 October 2014 01:29, Markus Sabadello <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markus@projectdanube.org" target="_blank">markus@projectdanube.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Hello list,<br>
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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.<br>
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I'd be interested in feedback on any or all of the following..<br>
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1. Is this a good idea? I made this webpage:
<a href="http://projectdanube.org/freedombox/" target="_blank">http://projectdanube.org/freedombox/</a><br>
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".<br>
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.<br>
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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 <a href="http://blog.projectdanube.org/2012/06/freedombox-unhosted-pagekite-for-access-innovation-prize-2012/" target="_blank">2
years ago</a>, 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.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not sure how much is going to come out of the W3C work, except some standardization of AS 2.0, opensocial etc.<br><br></div><div>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.<br><br><a href="https://github.com/linkeddata/gold">https://github.com/linkeddata/gold</a><br><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>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<br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
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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 <a href="https://github.com/peacekeeper/freedom-maker/wiki/OS-Start" target="_blank">here</a>.<br>
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4. I worked on setting up a PageKite service under the domain
<a href="http://freedombox.me" target="_blank">freedombox.me</a>, 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 <a href="http://pagekite.me" target="_blank">pagekite.me</a> works. So I imagine, if you
get a FreedomBox, you also get one of these "voucher codes" and can
choose a <a href="http://something.freedombox.me" target="_blank">something.freedombox.me</a> 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 <a href="https://github.com/peacekeeper/freedomkite" target="_blank">here</a>.<br>
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Thoughts? Maybe we can chat on IRC at some point ("peacekeeper").<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
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Markus<br>
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