# Ahau Community Groups | 2020-06-03

private groups
1. kaitiaki
- 1a. inviting people in (how)
- 1b. inviting people in (who)
- 1c. managing the group
- approved content
- approved authors
2. how to check someone before letting them in
3. finding a group to be able to join?
4. the pataka for a group

5. managing personal content:
- who can see my phone number

must haves for minimal function by end July:
- 1a. invite people in (how)
- 1b. invite people in (who)
- minimal way could be just person who started group
- (later) add approved inviters
- 2. check before letting them in
- 4. pataka

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## draft pattern for group management

0. Ben runs Ahau on his computer:
- create a public profile
- create a private group "Tairea whanau"
- Ben create whakapapa record _inside_ the "Tairea whanau" group

1. Ben set up a pataka
- computer always running ahau code
- needs a static IP, always on

2. Ben creates ssb-invite invite codes for the pataka
- uses one himself
- causes you to follow the pataka, and the pataka to follow you
- this means you will sync with the pataka (and who it syncs with)
- gives one to Ian
- via email / signal
- this is a single-use code

3. Ian has set up Ahau on his computer, set up public profile used the invite code
- Ben and Ian can now see each others public profiles

4. Ben sends invite to "Tairea whanau" private group to Ian:
- before: confirm that "Ian" profile is in fact Ian Tairea

5. Ian receives the invite and his system now reveals Tairea whanau
- can see the community (where? what notifications?)
- can publish new records in the group

Questions:
- public profiles vs. group profiles
- needs building
- is the public registry then still on the timeline?

Things this still needs:
- (1) how to set up pataka?
- needs to: hold a bunch of records. people can have their own pataka
- ideally hardware of their own - computer could be fine.
- could be a computer just running ahau desktop
- has a page for spitting out invite codes
- needs port-forwarding set up
- public versus private group profiles
- we need a "simple + safe" version of our profile
- AND a detailed version for inside the group (e.g. has phone number)
- whakapapa records link only the private records in the group
- can only search to connect profiles within the group

- all record creation in the context of a group needs to use use the group keys

- (4) how to confirm Ian account is really Ian?
- (later) Ian sends Ben (over ssb) a bunch of his whakapapa info to confirm who he is
- this is his "application" / proof of who he is
- Ian calls Ben on the phone / emails his "profileID" .. some code so that ben knows the computer that says it's Ian is really associated with the person.

- (later) public community page?
- a version of the community profile page which is public
- people can "apply" to that and ... those messages go to the currently public kaitiaki of that group?

- (later) a way to link a private group with a profile/community

Asana:
- change desktop app so it can run in pataka mode
- can create invite codes
- computer must know external IP address plus external port
- make it a different installer, use ~/.ahau-pataka for home
- views:
- status: is it happily running?
- disk usage?
- replication recently (similar to Patchbay)
- profile's it's replicating
- generate an invite code
- write a guide for port forwarding
- change desktop app to be able to use pataka invites
- page for entering invite code
- page for seeing which pataka I have joined
- page for seeing current network connections
- public vs private group profiles
- first profile will be your public one
- also makes a private (for you only) one
- also when you join a group.... you can make a new one if you don't already exist in that group?!!! (complex)
- ? when a kaitiaki invites someone to a private group perhaps they can also create a group profile for them, or give write access to an existing one

- revist multiple authors for records
- mix has tangle PR with some of this work already
- needs code + design around manually resolving "collisions" in editing?

- create a way for Ian to be able to read off / share his account ID so Ben knows to add him (e.g. use his public profileId?)

## Long term ideal

download from play store, and then open it and see your community, can just request to join from there
- this requires a global registry
- not time to do this in the next 2 months

## Designs needed
Pataka
- create pataka
- pataka dashboard
- online/offline
- any issues
- current storage
- traffic
- terminate pataka?

Ahau
- insert pataka code
- invite someone to the community
- recieve connection
- link profile to user profile?
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