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This is the documentation for Suffr.

Quick downloads:

New: [Bootstrapping Digital Democracy] (executive summary)

[Download Suffr for PmWiki]

[Robot's Rules of Order] - Whitepaper overview

Users author and sign off on actions, Suffr implements

Suffr is a design (and plugin) to allow a group of people to manage a computer system together. It addresses the need for groups to maintain control over computing resources when working in trust-poor situations.

Using Suffr, groups maintain the core configuration of a computer system under their control. They can alter Wiki recipes to propose changes to system configuration. They then "sign off" on desirable recipes. When a sufficient number of users sign off, Suffr puts the system configuration changes into place.

Suffr is currently a plugin for PmWiki, a flat-file PHP Wiki. Suffr was introduced at [WikiSym 2009] in Orlando, FL. [Proceedings PDF]

Executive Summary

The best document to start with is "Robot's Rules of Order", found in the Suffr downloads page above.

Here's more introduction on Suffr.

Status

April 2010: working on "the hard problem", boot time control. Need to find an option ROM environment that can host a minimal web server. gPXE (Etherboot) looks promising, have to implement listen() and accept() in otherwise serviceable network stack.