Amahi in TWiT.tv's FLOSS weekly - post your questions!

[cpg]

Hi!

Next Wednesday March 10, at 1.30pm PST (10:30pm EST), there is a live interview about Amahi with yours truly on TWiT.TV's FLOSS Weekly, one of the most popular free/open source video casts. Video should be available a few hours after the live program ends.

If you have some questions you'd like to suggest, please post them here. Be gentle

[pjcrux]

one of the questions that I would like to see on the show is that I would like to know how the community typically accepts the changes that we propose. Our Community is not unlike any other open source community. Most individuals are only vocal when something is broken or not working well.

so there are two questions I guess.



#1. how the community typically accepts the changes that we propose?
#2. how are we doing going forward integrating the suggestions from our users?

[mehmetb]

Here's my question:

Is Amahi dependable and secure enough to be used by small businesses? If so, what kind of advantages does it provide to avoid maintenance/administration costs? Also how close Amahi gets to being a (private) "cloud" solution?

We will be listening

Thanks!

Update: Also, is there anything new in your efforts to migrate to Ubuntu ?

[cpg]

#1. how the community typically accepts the changes that we propose?
#2. how are we doing going forward integrating the suggestions from our users?

hi pjcrux!

we touched a bit on this. i'll answer here.

a lot of the changes we propose are driven by the community requesting them. i think there were some things that we tested and the community did not like however, they typically do not get past being a "test" release, i.e. they do not make it to a new release.

what this means is that people here and in the irc channel have a first say into what amahi does

about #2, it usually works like this: first request is "registered" but ignored
if we get more requests for a particular feature, we start paying attention.
then there is a mathematical formula we apply for that feature:

Code: Select all

( No. of independent requests / how complex it is to implement * 2.71 ) ^ patches for it

in other words, patches help A LOT

[cpg]

Is Amahi dependable and secure enough to be used by small businesses? If so, what kind of advantages does it provide to avoid maintenance/administration costs? Also how close Amahi gets to being a (private) "cloud" solution?

Update: Also, is there anything new in your efforts to migrate to Ubuntu ?

Dependable? YES!

Secure enough? - Arguably yes.

It's not enterprise secure. The share security is good. Impenetrable? No.

Porting to Ubuntu (not migrating), ... not much new on Ubuntu.