[Freedombox-discuss] Some advice on moving Plinth forward?
So, let's move towards some user stories.
I'm a coder but not so hot at routing etc, so I'm going to act like a dumb
designer who is ignorant of technical limitations ;) Here are a few of my
ideal stories, and some technical questions:
Alice is concerned about privacy. She wants to buy a device that will
automatically manage this for her. She buys a Freedombox, and following the
instruction sticker on the plug, she plugs an ethernet cable from her modem
to the freedombox, which then acts as a router using sensible default
settings. (is this the correct process?)
Bob is like Alice, but has a USB-only ADSL modem his ISP gave him. How is
Linux USB modem driver coverage looking these days?
Carol wants fine-grained control of her privacy. Following instructions on
the sticker, she types "freedombox" into the address bar of her browser
( do we have control of DNS at this point?) This takes her to a top-level
page. She clicks the "Privacy" button and is presented with a simple
interface for controlling privoxy etc. An "Advanced" button allows her to
access more complicated features when needed.
David wants to log in to websites using his OpenId. When he visits
websites, "freedombox" is an option alongside Facebook and Google. He
clicks the "Log in with Freedombox" link, and is asked for his password in
an iFrame supplied by his own Freedombox (can we make this work when he is
not on his own network?).
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Daniel Bryan <danbryan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Not sure whether I've actually posted to the list before but I've been
> closely following FreedomBox since late 2010.
>
> I got a chance to talk to Bdale a little at Linux Conf. Au 2012 and I
> decided to have a go at hacking on Plinth.
>
> I'm keen to get started, and I've been discussing it with Alistair
> Davidson, who's a UX guy.
>
> Basically we want to rapidly prototype a simple end-user service
> configuration system. Does anyone have an idea of what it'd be really good
> to get up and running? Web server? Routing? GPG / other ident. stuff?
>
> We'll eventually need to have some kind of spec for how a developer can
> come along and contribute the configuration builder for a given service to
> Plinth in a standard format, but for now I think it'd be best to focus on
> usability and user experience.
>
> Has anyone else been looking particularly at this stuff? I'm sort of a bit
> lost for a start, but I have spare time and I reckon I'm a pretty killer
> Python dev so if I can get some direction to push me over the edge that'd
> be great :)
>
> Daniel
>
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