[Freedombox-discuss] Introducing myself and netsukuku
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> Hi Luca,
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Luca Dionisi wrote:
>>
>> Yesterday I came to know about this project and their goals. I
>> listened to Eben Moglen's keynote at FOSDEM (via internet).
>> I had some nice chat with some members on the IRC room.
>
> Welcome!
>
>
>> I saw that the first step in the roadmap is definition of hardware and
>> software requirements.
>
>> I got from Moglen's speech that mesh networking is definitely one of them.
>> So I wondered if the project netsukuku had gotten any sort of attention from
>> the freedombox project's members. And it seems that many never heard of it.
>
> I for one have never heard of it. ?Looks quite promising!
>
> Please see here for how to get upstream software integrated into Debian
> (which is a requirement for it to be part of the Debian ecosystem:
>
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
>
> ...and here if you are confused about what you can/must do yourself:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2011-January/000347.html
>
>
> NB! I carefully did *not* say "requirement for Freedombox" above, as your
> are welcome to create a FreedomBox using FreeDOS on a PalmPilot - just don't
> expect me to collaborate with you on that. :-)
>
> Some (i.e. most, I assume) of us on this list use Debian as the platform for
> our systems, and intend to use it also as the platform for FreedomBox. ?A
> smaller fraction of us know how to engineer those pesky ".deb" thingies that
> is the building blocks of Debian itself.
>
> You need not be an official Debian Developer or even learn how to do Debian
> packaging to collaborate on this FreedomBox project - but in a Debian-based
> system, any and all code needs to be in a package, and above URLs describe
> how to start the process of that.
So, let's go for a team-maintained packaging.
Is someone on the list willing to help me with this?
I use Ubuntu on my boxes.
First of all, I have to create a bug report against WNPP? What's in the name?
--Luca
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