[sudo-discuss] The Indiebox Project - Web apps that you control

[Dan Krol]

Hello,

I wanted to tell you about a project called IndieBox: indieboxproject.org/
and to see if there was interest in having its creator come in for a talk
and demo. In fact, I'm pretty sure I initially heard of this thing on the
Sudoroom mailing list a while ago.

The goal is to create a box for consumers to easily be able to run their
own web apps locally on computers they physically control, so they truly
control their data.

The software component is a distribution based on Arch Linux called UBOS.
It easily manages web apps as packages, the same way most distros package
desktop apps. Did you ever consider how easy it is to install LibreOffice,
but how you can't really do that with WordPress and OwnCloud side by side?
You have to fiddle with database provision and Apache configs. Well, UBOS
handles all of that, as well as concurrent installations for multiple
users, upgrades and backups, and it even has a testing framework to make
sure upgrades work smoothly.

I've seen a couple presentations now at the Hacker Dojo by the guy running
the project, whose name is Johannes Ernst. I figured that there would be
more interest in a place like Sudo Room for a project like this. I have
been an occasional visitor to the Sudo Room, not sure if people remember
me. However, Johannes doesn't have any connections to Sudo Room, so he
asked if I could reach out to you folks to see if you were interested in
having him come in to do a presentation.

This may be of particular interest to the Mesh project people, since they
are working on local apps. I also told Johannes to check out PeoplesOpen.
So, I can post it in that group if people think it's more appropriate, to
try to make it part of a SudoMesh meeting. However I thought that the
general theme of independences from large companies would resonate would
the larger group, so I wanted to post it here first to see what people
thought.

-Dan
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