[CUWiN-Dev] Re: [wsfii-dev] Re: CUWiN follow-up...

[Sascha Meinrath]

Saul Albert wrote:
> Hi David
> 
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:52:46PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:29:17AM -0500, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
>>
>>>speaking of APIs, have folks seen the CUWiN node config mockup:
>>>
>>>www.cuwireless.net/nodeconfig
>  
> That's really pretty. Any chance of a CC lisence? It would be great to
> use something that shiny for Wireless London node configuration pages
> when they're ready.

Yes, I don't see any reason why the CUWiN Configurator GUI shouldn't be opened 
and used by folks -- I'd imagine an attribution non-commercial share-alike would 
work (see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/).  I'm definitely 
all for a CC license (I use this for all my stuff) and I don't anticipate that 
being a problem; but I've cc-ed the -dev team in case their are any concerns 
with this.

> We've not even started trying to encapsulate this much complexity in our
> node config yet.. the Freifunk Firmware interface is great - but this
> kind of step-thorugh for non-technical people is just what we need.
> 
> We could clone one - but this is really nice. Would you mind?

Personally, I'd love to see folks standardize on a single interface (or at least 
a base GUI that could then be added on to).  Ben's done a fantastic job of 
taking our input and feedback and crafting an extremely clean and usable 
interface.  I see no reason why we should keep building on what we've got, but 
also would like to open up the discussion to get feedback from folks.  One thing 
we've paid particular attention to is creating a _usable_ interface -- something 
that non-geeks can access...  this means that we've forced ourselves to drop 
some of cool potential features so that it is not overwhelming to the general 
public.  I'd love to see other folks using this, adding to it, etc.

What does everyone think?

--Sascha

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