Absolutely agree. I am not developer but could be a tester :-)

24 de marzo de 2018 11:08, "Patricio Gibbs" <patricio@altermundi.net> escribió:

> El 23 de marzo de 2018 7:42:17 GMT-05:00, bruno vianna <bruno@pobox.com> escribió:
>
>> Pitbull is not useful yet according to Nico Pace. We started to
>> collaborate
>> to develop to get it finished but it doesn't seem like it will happen
>> in
>> less than 6 months or so.
>
> If we write a brief description of the skills and work needed to create Pitbull, maybe we can
> attract more developers. And even if we don't attract more people to participate, we will have a
> clearer understanding of the work. Who can improve this first draft?:
>
> *The LibreMesh community will soon start working on a captive portal software to enable community
> functions such as local bulletin boards and network access control. We call on people with Lua
> programming experience to look at our GitHub repo at https://GitHub.com/libremesh/pitbull and post
> questions and comments there. For more read communication, visit our matrix chat room at -insert
> address here-. We also call on people interested in testing the captive portal software as we
> develop it.*
>
> Improving this call to action and distributing it among our networks at least opens the chance of
> other people joining the effort... Nothing to lose.
>
> (I'm willing to learn more programming, but I don't I can contribute much in that task. Testing I
> think I can do.)
>
> I think these creations, such as the captive portal, add a lot of value to our networks and make
> them more attractive and more viable as real alternatives to non-community networks, offering tools
> and social dynamics that non-community networks cannot offer.
>
>> I'll work on an English documentation of the hack this weekend and send
>> it
>> to the list, it would be great if you could test.
>
> Great! Our community in Caimito has wanted a captive portal since we started over a year ago. I
> look forward to testing (and upgrading or nodes to libremesh 17).
>
> Patrick
>
>> Bruno
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:44 AM, Paul Harmor <psharmor@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Not that I can provide any useful information to answer the question
>>> posed, but I'd sure like to see this become a reality as well! Think
>>
>> of
>>> this as a +1!
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 05:12 Amuza <amuza@riseup.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here we are considering again the captive portal thing. It would be
>> a
>> welcome page with some community news, not real authentication. I
>> guess
>> we would like a system where MAC addresses of users who just clicked
>> an
>> "Ok" button of the splash page would be validated for a month. So
>> they
>> would have to go through this News page once a month.
>>
>> I've seen Nodogsplash seems to be maintained again, so I can try to
>> make
>> it work for LiMe. But first I wanted to ask about Pitbull, as I
>> think
>> that was something similar but specially made for LiMe.
>>
>> What is the status of Pitbull?
>>
>> Would it work for the described need?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
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