These are the notes for the January 25, 2015 call, originally recorded at https://pad.riseup.net/p/XLTeS8hvwEUb
Agenda
- 0.3 Released! Party! Bravo!
- Confirm Sunil's key (no sigs?): 0x36C361440C9BC971
- Frequent releases: every month or two.
- How do we reduce the time it takes to make a plinth release?
- Sunil can't upload plinth/fbx-setup packages to Debian.
- How do we make faster releases?
- How do we reduce the time it takes to make a plinth release?
DNSChain/BlockChain ID: https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain
- PGP-certs-over-blockchain? Wow! Identity via blockchain... - looks great for freedombuddy.
- Public identifiers mapped to keys in blockchain.
- Packaged? Not yet, but available through Node.js's PM.
- 2 step process:
- Debian package
- Web interface for configuration through to Plinth
- Connection information at end of DNSChain README
- Security Reviews?
- Not sure how feasible that is?
- Sunil/Petter: 1.0 (dev release): It's a work in progress, and we shouldn't get too hung up on it?
- Can the Foundation help with that sort of thing at all?
- Next TODOs for apps/services that we would like to see in 1.0:
- Calendar server (radicale)
- Mail / SMTorP / notmuch
- Bookmark server / Mozilla Sync
- PGP SSO
- freedombuddy / monkeysphere / SSO
- wiki / blog
- Re-visiting must-do items for 1.0 from last meeting and mailing list
what to do with the bts-to-github bug sync script?
Accountable anonymous group communication: http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/dissent/
- Markus:
- Remote Storage Server for Unhosted.org project: separating client-side logic from server-side storage.manage
- Identity providers: OpenID connect / Mozilla persona
- Nick:
- Make the box understand a Person with multiple keys and use that to serve as ACL
- Do we need an ACL frontend for all the identity providers?
?BlockChain ID
- WebID
- OpenID
- Mozilla Personas
- Client Side X.509-Certificates
- Client Side PGP-Certificates
- Documentation status updates and plan for updating FB manual: manual needs updating, but everything else is pretty good!
- New contributor plan
- More frequent releases: faster release process:
- Sunil can test everything in 2 days or so, that's pretty good!
- Coordinate website updates.
- Faster responses
- review mailing list and reply faster.
- Adding 1-person-signoff review for FM/FBX-Setup.
- Better documentation
Building the manual from the wiki (by including various smaller pages from wiki using MoinMoin macros)
- updating the manual regularly
- A friendly face
- be welcoming on the mailing list
- Can we double the number of active contributors by EOY?
- Projects are difficult to get started with.
- update HACKING files
- copy to wiki?
- Plinth was difficult, is it still?
- Freedom-Maker could be easier.
- More frequent releases: faster release process:
Actions
- TODO Sunil: Post X86/Debian page to supported hardware.
- TODO Sunil: Ask about F-M/FBX-Setup upload permissions?
- TODO Nick: check in with Bdale about when it makes sense to get security audit.
- TODO TomG: Try Plinth hacking again, is it easier?
- TODO Everybody: Please review your targets for the next release and post them to the mailing list, especially if you're willing to work on them soonish.
- DONE Nick: Mail Tom with recent FBuddy updates.
DONE DNSChain: Open 2 FreedomBox-related issues. -