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?