Fwd: π-Box April/May snapshot released

[Josef Spillner]

Olá gente,

Segue um e-mail (em inglês) que acabei de enviar para o grupo Freedombox do 
projeto Debian. O π-Box é um sistema de pesquisa para "navegar nas nuvens" com 
segurança e conveniência.

Usamos neste sistema um Noosfero bem atual, sempre seguindo master, para 
realizar funções de redes sociais. As modificações incluem o uso do API e nos 
perfís públicos dos usuários uma lista de algumas attributos que gravamos 
através do API na coluna "data" da tabela "profile". Não usamos (por enquanto) 
as nossas modificações de integração com plataformas de serviços que 
encontram-se nas instâncias servomat.inf.tu-dresden.de e crowdserving.com.

Por exemplo, você pode fazer um login como usuário "demo" na rede social que 
se chama "CloudRemixers". Aceita os novos amigos Alice, Bob e Carol. Depois, 
vai para o seu cockpit pessoal (chamado CloudRemix), faz um login também, e na 
configuração adicione a conta da rede social CloudRemixers 
(http://localhost:3000/api). Ele vai gravar a sua posição assim que os amigos 
podem acessar a sua máquina, e vice-versa, para trocar dados, aplicações, 
recursos e outras coisas. É muito brincadeira ainda, mas dá para matar uns 
minutos livres.

A instalação corresponde com as novas instruções no wiki sobre como fazer uma 
instalação do Noosfero num Debian Wheezy (testing).

T+
Josef

:: Josef Spillner Montag 15 April 2013
> Hello Freedomboxers,
> 
> For two and a half years now our EU-funded research group FlexCloud been
> looking at how users may be empowered to become more flexible regarding the
> use of public and personal devices, services and assets. We have envisioned
> a user-controlled system called the "π-Box" which, if connected with other
> such boxes, creates a trustworthy "π-Cloud". It is in many ways not
> intended to be used for practical work, but instead may serve as
> inspiration for future client system development, including perhaps
> FreedomBox.
> 
> With the π-Box, users can discover, use, offer and exchange services of
> various categories, including computing infrastructure, applications, data,
> devices such as robots and house automation, human work and product
> delivery. From a trust perspective, it differentiates between one's own
> services, those of friends which can be added through social networks, and
> public ones. Furthermore, it stresses service variations, such as splits
> and bundles, for higher flexibility.
> 
> Technically, the prototypical system realisation "π-Box Live" tracks Debian
> Wheezy. All functionality is reachable through a Fluxbox context menu - in
> case you wonder what to do next after the login. The cloud control cockpit
> is also somewhat non-intuitive: Login fields aren't shown until [Ctrl]+[-]
> are pressed twice in the browser to reduce the font size. Many such issues
> clearly show that it's a side effect of research work without much care
> about such software development glitches :)
> 
> Download the current snapshot, which is an improved version of the previous
> release M3:
> 
> http://141.76.41.201/pibox-snapshots/pibox-unreleased-1365942232.img
> 
> Then run it through KVM with -m 1024, and use "demo" whenever it asks you
> for a username or password. Most of the software has been written by us
> except for the last section in the context menu, which contains stock
> tools such as file manager, terminal and browser. Only one tool is
> properly (more or less) packaged for Debian, all others have merely been
> thrown all over the directory structure. They can be turned into proper
> packages if there is an interest.
> 
> More information can be found on the π-Box website:
> 
> https://flexcloud.eu/?p=2204&lang=en
> 
> I'd be happy to get feedback and ideas for additional functionality.
> 
> Josef