Progress call: 18:00 UTC
Update on work at ThoughtWorks (Sunil/Rahul)
Sunil and Rahul are both working full-time on FreedomBox.
3 others contributing to FreedomBox also.
- Roadmap: Replacement for Whatsapp, social applications, SSO, website, villages
- Enabling non-admin users in Plinth
- Matrix Server (Sunil/Rahul)
- Good protocol (HTTP, easy clients, Double rachet)
- Riot client - manual switch on encryption
- work toward simplifying UI
- identity server
- synapse packaging - was in NEW queue
- Replacement for Whatsapp
Co-exist with XMPP on FreedomBox
- Interoperable with other protocols (IRC gateways)
UI overhaul (mray) https://github.com/freedombox/Plinth/issues/739
- Javascript use - can work out fallback scenarios
- On/off toggle
- Priority
- Consider for GSOC/Outreachy
- Developer next steps
- Move beyond bootstrap framework?
- Material design
- Feedback:
- Looks good, improvement over current look
- Mobile phone appearance of dialog box?
- Use full width on mobile
- App pop-up actions: Run diagnostics, Uninstall
- Settings drop-down with additional actions
- Install/uninstall, enable/disable replaced by on/off toggle
- Notifications tab per app, module to aggregate notifications
- Javascript use - can work out fallback scenarios
- Taiga.io for project management. (Sunil/Rahul)
FreedomBox Project: https://tree.taiga.io/project/freedombox-freedombox/
- FOSSASIA participation (Sunil)
- Nikhil Rayalprolu is setting a stall and giving a lightning talk
- GSOC/Outreach (Sunil, James?)
- Plinth UI overhaul (Sunil, mray can mentor)
- Mail server support (James, Sunil can mentor)
Submit projects to https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2017/Projects
FreedomBox in Villages update (Sunil)
- Official launch event, local press coverage
- Workshop
https://www.wireguard.io/ VPN, https://github.com/DonnchaC/onionbalance (federico3)
- wireguard in Debian unstable, in kernel
- onionbalance in Debian testing