[Openbootts-discuss] Welcome and project direction

[Chris P. <ive...@to...>]

Hi folks!

First off, welcome to the list!  I see there's a decent number of folks
subscribed now so I might as well kick things off.  I'm pretty open to
contributions from anyone at this point so feel free to jump in wherever
you want :)

My long-term plan for OpenBootTS is for it to become a dual-purpose
tool, able to quickly and conveniently deploy a large-scale GSM network
on any available infrastructure, as well as serving as a toolkit for
security or other audits of GSM installations.

In the short term, that means I'm focusing on the following things at
the moment:

- Support for additional platforms.  Wireless support would be great,
x64 is known-broken (but probably not needed), usb-img and PXE are
untested.  Testing on embedded platforms would be awesome - I know some
around here are into SBCs.

- Configuration and deployment needs to be easier.  There's not much
required to change default configs into something workable; it would be
nice to have a clean UI for this.

- Additional RF hardware.  I'll port OpenBSC into it myself as soon as I
can get hold of the hardware to test on; if someone would like to loan
me the gear or do it themselves feel free.  Other RF platforms are of
course welcome too.

- Operational UI.  It needs some sort of easily-scriptable interface
into everything.  There's at least 4 UIs to deal with to do a very
limited set of things in practice - it's easy to add Apache to the image
if someone writes the code to live on it.

If you're still reading this far then I've apparently caught your
interest, in which case I'll post this link now -
http://www.tombom.co.uk/1.0-private.iso is a fully-finished build of 1.0
with my Asterisk and OpenBTS configs already deployed.  Boot it with
Ethernet and a 52MHz USRP connected and you should be able to make calls
- feel free to use it until my $20 of SIP credit runs out :)

Cheers!

Chris