[Noisebridge-discuss] New Android app: Noisegate

[rachel lyra hospodar]

+1

Perhaps users desiring to enter using their mobile phone can do so by 
relinquishing their anonymity.

Perhaps users who wish to do both can submit a closed request to the board.

On 10/9/2012 5:23 PM, D J Capelis wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Josh Juran<jjuran at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> We can treat requests differently when they come from Noisebridge's own wifi
>> network.
>
>  From what I saw, for things like accessing pony.noise/gate or making a
> call to gate/open, that's already treated differently coming from the
> wifi vs. the internet.  (On the internet, it's denied.)
>
> The mobile key is different.  It's okay with a GET from anywhere on
> the Internet instead of a POST to open.  I don't have an account on
> pony to check on how things are actually working, so I'm not sure if
> this is the only key that can be used this way, just the only one I
> found to use on an iPhone[1] when I recently moved to SF part-time and
> decided to start dropping by the space to work and get a feel for it
> and see if I wanted to do so more regularly and really join the
> community. :)
>
> Basically the mobile key is a purposefully opened hole as far as I can
> tell.  Issuing keys accountable to an individual or an alias seems
> like it would be something that would make a lot of sense.  The apps
> could easily remember a key and issue requests to open the gate using
> a person's own accountable key after it learned it once.  Then keys
> could be revoked for people who aren't being excellent.
>
> I think it would be cool if there was a decent and simple way for a
> new user to submit a little form online giving a little context to who
> they are and request access to a key easily so new people can see the
> community even if they're new to the area and/or shy and/or don't know
> a whole lot of people in the community yet.  As a new person, I'd feel
> shiny if I could access the gate in a way where I had an API key that
> allowed me to be accountable to my use of my gate open requests but
> not also require that I immediately navigate (haha, gate, get it?) a
> confusing community I'm not yet used to interacting with.
>
> The code seems mostly trivial, I'd be happy to write it and extend the
> API that exists if someone wanted to give me the access I'd need to
> pony and the community judges the idea an excellent one.
>
> ~DJ
>
> [1] Funny the thing I use on my iphone is also called noisegate and
> does exactly the same thing as your new android app.
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