[Debian-NP-Commits] r52 - trunk/docs/report
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Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:04:12 -0600
Author: enrico
Date: Thu Jun 17 11:26:11 2004
New Revision: 52
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trunk/docs/report/02participants
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trunk/docs/report/03socialspec
trunk/docs/report/04techwork
trunk/docs/report/05future
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trunk/docs/report/participants
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Added very raw contents to the various chapters, taking from the material produced during the bagunca
Copied: trunk/docs/report/02participants (from r51, trunk/docs/report/participants)
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+--------------------------- Who we where :: goals
+
+
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Bagunça Goals</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+
+<h1>Goals for the Bagunça</h1>
+
+<!--Goals of DebianNP participation at Debconf4/FISL
+------------------------------------------------
+-->
+
+<ul>
+<li>Debian NP Server
+ <ul>
+ <li>Create an overview of what Debian NP Server can look like
+ <li>Involved groups: Riseup Resist Autistici/Inventati Comodino, Indimedia
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Debian NP Workstation
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Debian NP Intranet server
+ <ul>
+ <li> Zufus is interested
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Debian NP Terminal server
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Cooperation of different groups
+ <ul>
+ <li>Strategizing on collaboration of different participating groups
+ (freegeek,riseup, skolelinux, praksys, freeflows(?) ) projects and how to
+ work together and identifying other like-minded groups/projects to connect
+ with, as well as with the larger free-software community.
+ <li>Exploit face-to-face opportunities for increased social connection
+ <li>Map technical capabilities of involved people
+ <li>Listing other realities we know that could be interested in participating to the works
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Technology
+ <ul>
+ <li>Familiarize group with the "Custom Debian Distribution" Framework, and
+focus on integrating into that framework
+ <li>Improvement of installer and hardware detection (specifically doing
+custom package selection with the debian installer)
+ <li>Work on Skolelinux metapackages and CD building projects
+ <li>Freegeek additions to debconf questions and filing wishlist bugs for low
+priority installation questions, adding custom configurations that
+freegeek has already done into base debian packages
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Phylosophy
+ <ul>
+ <li>Creating specifications from social point of view
+ <li>Reflection on the global/local nature of software, localization and
+finding ways to make Debian NP easy for people like E-riders to
+customize for a specific locality.
+
+<li>Planning
+ <ul>
+ <li>Shape future of Debian NP development
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Funding discussion
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Final reporting
+ <ul>
+ <li>Having a plan the Debian-NP Server
+ </ul>
+
+</ul>
+
+
+<h2>People</h2>
+
+<li>Vagrant
+<ul>
+<li>- Freegreek computer reuse/recicling organization
+<li> - Collaborative Technologies subprojects of freegeek, they contact other
+ NGO to help them move to free software
+<li> - Moving to stdized debian distribution
+ - Author of lessdisks
+<li> - Freegeek is also teaching people, so they're interested too in making things
+ easy
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Enrico
+<ul>
+<li> - Benefit for Comodino
+<li> - Try to work together with other groups
+ - Share work with other groups to ease the load of all
+<li> - Lubricating NGO infrastructure
+<li> - Doing later some easier E-Riding
+<li> - Play with social aspects of software
+<li> - Play with extreme customization and bridging global cooperation with local
+ customization
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Kalfa
+ <ul>
+ <li>- Part of Comodino
+<li> - Debian Developer part of the CDD stuff
+<li> - Here in Porto Alegre for the CDD stuff and infrastructure
+<li> - Maintains Python related packages like jabber glue code; maintains OCR
+ packages
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Ale
+<ul>
+<li> - Part of Autistici/Inventati, maintaining a server for radical political groups and people
+<li> - Get a better design and infrastructure for the servers
+<li> - See how much cooperation (not only technical) between similar projects is
+<li> possible to attain
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Phasa
+<ul>
+<li> - LDAP and server configuration hacker for Autistici/Inventati
+<li> - we should define a general schema(not ldap only) for address our different problem
+</ul>
+
+<li>Micah
+<ul>
+<li> - Benefit for riseup, servers for radical activists
+<li> - email, websites...
+<li> - Try to work together with other groups
+<li> - Share work with other groups to ease the load of all
+<li> - Started with the WTO protest in Seattle
+<li> - Worked with Indimedia for many years for setting up the global networking
+ infrastructure (web, irc, mail)
+<li> - 1 and a half years in NM process in Debian
+<li> - Maintains a bittorrent replacement (bittornado) and a kernel patch
+ for
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Zufus
+<ul>
+<li> - Formerly very active in Rome, cooperating with Free Software Foundation
+ Europe and Assoli, doing parliament lobbying and other stuff
+<li> - Now a PhD in applied physics in Pisa
+<li> - Got to know Debian-NP from Mako and Enrico since several months, and
+ interested in getting in to work in the fertile Pisa NGO reality (Fair
+ Trade, Computer recycling) and would like to take part in the development
+<li> - Debian Devel (pointless among other packages)
+<li> - Secret agenda: meet people, know people, know technical and cultural
+ aspects, share knowledge, discover that there are guys from Pisa here
+ Main: get involved in Debian NP development
+ </ul>
+
+<li>Guillaume
+<ul>
+<li> - Working for Praksys in France (org spreading Debian free software)
+<li> - Secret agenda: aim is not to stay as an association but to build a
+ cooperative (limited liability company) with a more collaborative point of
+ view (networking users, developers, institutions). They have some clients,
+ not only setting up servers but also desktop machines (10 clients using only
+ Debian Linux for their everyday work (OOo, Konqueror, mail, sql-ledger))
+<li> - Business is migrating from windows to Free Software platforms
+<li> - Partnership with computer brokers (dispatchers of used computers)
+<li> - Commercial targets: NP orgs, schools, cooperatives, companies
+<li> - Tech platform now is based on Woody because it started 1 year and a half ago
+ and wanted to benefit from security patches for everything which is exposed
+ to internet, and use backports for the rest
+<li> - Have central monitoring tools
+<li> - Need LDAP servers too
+ </ul>
+
+
+Look for ASCII software which has been release on SourceForge dischosting.sf.net
+
+<br>
+<a href="index.html">Index</a>
+
+</body>
+</html>
+
--------------------------- Who we where :: related groups
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+- List of all brainstormed personas
+- List of final personas
+- Other stuff we have
+ (goals? tasks?)
+
+
+
+---------------------- Personas
+
+
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Personas: Andrew Taylor the Unemployed Technician</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+
+<!--
+ - Expert but unemployed
+ - Full of free time
+ - Volunteer
+ - Looking (not too hard) for job and more into building experience
+ - Frustrated with windows and viruses
+ - Looking for useful things to do
+-->
+
+<h1>Andrew Taylor the Unemployed Technician</h1>
+
+<p>
+ Andrew is a 45 years old technician formerly employed by Parametrics
+ Consulting ltd. He has lots of background with Windows, he completed MSCE
+ courses, and he's very frustrated with Windows because of ongoing virus
+ outbreaks.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ He has heard about Linux and he's interested about "learning it", but he's
+ unsure about what it means. He has tried installing "Linux 9" at home, but
+ it failed to install on their old computer.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ He has been recently laid off, so he has plenty of free time while looking
+ for a new job, and he's luckily getting paid unemployment and he's enjoying
+ the "time off".
+</p>
+
+</body>
+</html>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Personas: Michael Stone (a.k.a Fig Leaf)</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+
+<!--
+ - Aware of privacy issues
+ - Lack of time
+ - Not supporting corporative infrastructure
+ - Volunteer
+ - Groups of people interested in using online services or kiosks
+-->
+
+<h1>Michael Stone (a.k.a Fig Leaf)</h1>
+
+<p>
+ Fig Leaf is a traveling protester which goes from timber site to timber site
+ to do tree sitting or chain himself in front of bulldozers, continuously
+ traveling across the USA.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ He wants to go into any community center and access his e-mail from any
+ type of computer, without a lot of hassle. He needs a considerable amount of
+ security because he's planning potentially illegal direct action. He needs to
+ be able to access files to make flyers and other propaganda, and to store
+ pictures of protests (possibly needed in court).
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ He's happily unemployed — more interested in doing volunteer work than
+ participating in capitalist society. He travels light and changes identity
+ frequently.
+</p>
+
+</body>
+</html>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>All Personas</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+
+<h1>All personas</h1>
+
+<h2>Andrew Taylor the Unemployed Technician</h2>
+
+<!--
+ - Expert but unemployed
+ - Full of free time
+ - Volunteer
+ - Looking (not too hard) for job and more into building experience
+ - Frustrated with windows and viruses
+ - Looking for useful things to do
+-->
+
+<p>
+ Andrew is a 45 years old technician formerly employed by Parametrics
+ Consulting ltd. He has lots of background with Windows, he completed MSCE
+ courses, and he's very frustrated with Windows because of ongoing virus
+ outbreaks. <a href="andrew.html">[...]</a>
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>Fig Leaf, the Traveling Protester</h2>
+
+<!--
+ - Aware of privacy issues
+ - Lack of time
+ - Not supporting corporative infrastructure
+ - Volunteer
+ - Groups of people interested in using online services or kiosks
+-->
+
+<p>
+ Fig Leaf is a traveling protester which goes from timber site to timber site
+ to do tree sitting or chain himself in front of bulldozers, continuously
+ traveling across the USA. <a href="fig_leaf.html">[...]</a>
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>Katarina Novakova, the Circuit Rider</h2>
+
+<p>
+Katarina Novakova is sponsored by a local foundation in Slovakia to work as
+a technology consultant for a group of non profit organizations helping
+disabled kids. <a href="katarina_novakova.html">[...]</a>
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>Sprout, the Society Changer</h2>
+
+<!--
+ - Aware of privacy issues
+ - Act on behalf of a group
+ - Lack of time
+ - Not willing to support corporative infrastructure
+ - Volunteer
+ - Existing experience with Macintosh or Windows
+ - Interested in publishing
+ - People interested in setting up services, like setting up an OS in their
+ computer to give services to other people
+-->
+
+<p>
+Sprout is part of collective who are very interested in promoting
+their alternative lifestyle.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+They are very concerned with privacy and security issues because they
+are involved in sensitive politcal projects that if their personal
+information fell into the wrong hands their project, and possibly
+their safety would be endangerd. They do not want their digital tracks
+to be gathered and do not want to provide personal data for any
+purposes. <a href="sprout.html">[...]</a>
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>Pietro, the Administrator</h2>
+
+<p>
+Pietro is volunteering his technical skills with a small non-profit
+organization. He has taken the task of administrating their server,
+and is the only one working on it. He has some experience with Linux,
+but can only spend so much time a week working on their server, and
+would like to find more people to help. <a href="pietro.html">[...]</a>
+</p>
+
+
+</body>
+</html>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
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+-->
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Personas: Katarina Novakova</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+
+<h1>Katarina Novakova, the Circuit Rider</h1>
+
+<p>
+Katarina Novakova is sponsored by a local foundation in Slovakia to work as
+a technology consultant for a group of non profit organizations helping
+disabled kids.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+She maintains a number of Windows desktop computers connected to the net via
+ADSL and dialup modems. Some of the most advanced organizations have a
+small LAN which shares a printer and some disk space from a computer to the
+others.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+She also helps the organizations to develop the web pages and to find
+relevant informations on the network. She's also helping the workers of the
+organizations to solve their computer problems, teaching and troubleshooting
+their MS Office, Outlook and Internet Explorer problems and needs.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Most of the non profits Katarina works with are however using the software
+illegally, and have no money to buy the licenses they need. They also have
+old machines they haven't the money they need to upgrade, and they start
+receiving documents that can't be opened with the old versions of Windows
+they use.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Katarina's thus interested in trying some Free Software, like installing
+OpenOffice on Windows or switching to some Linux solution. She has attended
+an event sponsored by Tactical Tech and she's committed to try migrating a
+nonprofit or two and see what happens. She would like to prepare this new
+tool she's migrating to so that the systems are going to function, the same
+or better than they were functioning before.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+However, she doesn't want to spend too much time in his work, nor she wants
+her users to get into trouble, or that trouble will get into her.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+She also fears that she has to throw away all she and she has to re-learn
+everything from the beginning.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Katarina has nobody on her circle of friends that she can contact in case of
+need, and she's wondering how she'll be able to get support if something
+breaks. She knows however many technical persons from around the Internet
+after the Tactical Tech event.
+</p>
+
+</body>
+</html>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
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+-->
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Marisa, the Curious</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+
+<h1>Marisa, the Curious</h1>
+
+<p>
+Marisa is a high school teacher in the small village of Ribettola. As a
+teacher, she works during the morning and has free time during the afternoon,
+during which she takes care of the house and the family and she does some work
+for the school.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Marisa is a good catholic, and by suggestion of the local parish she always
+voted for the mainstream catholic/conservative party. However, she's now
+realizing that there are many wrong things in the world, and she's fascinated
+by the various association and groups of people that are doing so many nice
+things. She recently bought an <a
+href="http://www.emergency.it/index.php?ln=En">Emergency</a> T-Shirt, and one
+of the more engaged teen-agers of the parish handed her a book by Padre Alex
+Zanotelli, which caught her attention.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Now she sometimes stop and reads some articles in the newspaper that she used
+to skip, and she's growing more and more curious. She's heard that on the
+Internet you can find a lot of informations, but she doesn't know where to
+start from. When she googles something, she usually gets into some socialist
+group websites where she can't understand a thing of what they are talking
+about.
+</p>
+
+</body>
+</html>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
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+End:
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Pietro, the Administrator</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+
+<h1>Pietro, the Administrator</h1>
+
+<p>
+Pietro is volunteering his technical skills with a small non-profit
+organization. He has taken the task of administrating their server,
+and is the only one working on it. He has some experience with Linux,
+but can only spend so much time a week working on their server, and
+would like to find more people to help.
+</p>
+<p>
+The organization requires email services for all the volunteers and
+staff, but have expressed many frustrations in the past because of
+spam and viruses. There is a lot of turn-over in the organization with
+volunteers coming and working for a summer, and then leaving to return
+to school, so Pietro experiences a lot of administrative overhead in
+user management.
+</p>
+<p>
+The organization has a slow internet connection, but several machines
+in the office that need to share that slow connection. Additionally
+many of the machines in the working space are old, and not very fast,
+but there are one or two relatively newer machines that people need to
+take turns using.
+</p>
+<p>
+The organization also needs some internal addressbooks, scheduling and
+virtual working space as well as the ability to share files and print
+and communicate on an internally.
+</p>
+<p>
+Pietro is specifically concerned with security and the reliability of
+the server he is taking care of. There have not been any backups of
+the mail or the desktop systems yet because there is not much disk
+space available in the server. He would like to be able to plan for
+some expansion before it is too late, and would like to know as much
+ahead of time of problems before they happen so he can manage them.
+</p>
+<p>
+Pietro has Linux experience, but is overwhelmed by what the users are
+demanding, as well as what he sees as needed on the server that the
+users don't really understand why it is necessary. He is looking for a
+community of people in similar situations to cooperate, find help, and
+gain some time from work that others have done that he can benefit
+from. Additionally, he would like to share his fixes and improvements
+with others and generally feel as if he is part of a larger community.
+</p>
+
+</body>
+</html>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
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+-->
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Personas: Sprout</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+
+<!--
+ - Aware of privacy issues
+ - Act on behalf of a group
+ - Lack of time
+ - Not willing to support corporative infrastructure
+ - Volunteer
+ - Existing experience with Macintosh or Windows
+ - Interested in publishing
+ - People interested in setting up services, like setting up an OS in their
+ computer to give services to other people
+-->
+
+<img src="./sprout.jpg">
+
+<h1>Sprout</h1>
+
+<p>
+Sprout is part of collective who are very interested in promoting
+their alternative lifestyle.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+They are very concerned with privacy and security issues because they
+are involved in sensitive politcal projects that if their personal
+information fell into the wrong hands their project, and possibly
+their safety would be endangerd. They do not want their digital tracks
+to be gathered and do not want to provide personal data for any
+purposes.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+They are aware of the inherant social problems in existing corporate
+infrastructure and do not wish to support them, but would prefer to
+support alternatives, even at slight sacrifice of functionality or
+usability.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This collective are very busy with their activities and do not have a
+lot of time to follow the technical issues involved. They are
+willing to support the alternaties, but do not have the time to
+implement them on their own.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The collective has decided, through using consensus, that they need a
+small server in their collective living environment. Anyonmous has
+some technical experience they have had past experience with Windows
+and Macintosh environments, she has played with Linux but has been
+frustrated and has no experience setting up systems has agreed to be
+responsible for dumpster diving some computer parts. Once he has all
+the pieces, she will put the pieces together to realize an internal
+infrastructure for their house so they can cooperate in creating
+flyers, publishing pictures, editting and streaming videos of their
+last action, they also want their own domainname and to be able to
+receive and send mail from there.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Sprout does not want to spend a lot of time messing around with the
+machine, and would prefer things to be very stable and reliable.
+</p>
+
+</body>
+</html>
+
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+ - Debian-NP Internet Server
+ - Package selection
+ - LDAP Schema
+ - Debian-NP Workstation
+ - Package selection
+ - CDD Infrastructure
+
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+Future developments