Someone posted a message asking about updates to the Ushahidi appliance. That got me thinking that perhaps Ushahidi and Sahana Eden might be enormously helpful to mobilise people in the fight againt coronavirus.
I learned that Sahana Eden is being used by a county council here in the UK. It was set up to deal with the aftermath of flooding but has been tweaked to handle the pandemic.
I don't know how much work is involved in getting those appliances up-to-date but it's worth asking the question.
Most of the world uses (still) majordomo as ML manager.
Quite some time ago I stumbled across Sympa (https://www.sympa.org) and it convinced me enough to migrate from majordomo to Sympa. It scales for large ML installations - even the Unesco is using it https://www.sympa.org/users/custom.
I think it could make a worthy addition to the phalanx of TKL appliances.
Does TKL have a network security scan run against it on candidate/release? I would be interested to know how the core stands up against the usual security scanning tools in the industry. Essentially, does core represent a fairly secure image, or is it running wide open asking for attacks? I am sure it is not running wide open, but I am sure you can understand where I am coming from.
Is there a 'hardening' or security state that has to be met before core is graduated to a release and used for downstream apps/images? Maybe I have overlooked this somewhere?
