Still a few things to go through
- choice of name
- category short description (25 words or less)
- criteria for inclusion / exclusion of topics and examples
- category color & icon
Note: this is a wiki post. So, feel free to edit it to add your ideas in the indicated spaces. (You can also quote-reply and @deeplow will add them to here). Apologies to the forum email users but this way it’s more manageable.
Choice of name
Current proposals:
| Proposal | Advantages | disadvantages |
|---|---|---|
| The Qubes life | Catchy | may be ambiguous (lead to creation of posts that belong in other categories) |
| General admin, security & privacy | concise | Too restrictive (e.g. what about hardware?) @Sven: “general support / hardware” |
| General setup, security & privacy | concise | Too narrow. Can we discuss free software? |
| Beyond Qubes | concise | 1) doesn’t hint at the boundaries |
| Not Qubes Related | well auto descriptive | 1) doesn’t hint at the boundaries @Sven: related but not specific! 2) Contains a negative, which is not a good style |
| All around Qubes | descriptive, hints at the boundaries | ? |
| Tangents | descriptive, hints at the boundaries (if you know the context) | Ambigous if you don’t know the context |
| (add here your proposal) |
Category Short Description
Should be 25 words or less to display well in the categories list. There can be a slightly longer description, but needs to be a separate phrase.
(template) @<YOUR_NICK>'s description proposal
[proposal]
- Comments
- (add yours here)
@Sven’s description proposal
Setting up OS & programs inside a qube; general security & privacy considerations not specific to Qubes OS
Comments
@Ludovic’s description proposal
All discussions not directly related to Qubes OS but around the Qubes domains (privacy, freedom, system administration, security, Qubes alternatives, research, …).
Comments
- @fsflover: I like this description, except the word “domains” may be misleading here, since it has a special meaning in the Qubes world
- @deeplow: I agree with removing “domains”. Also, Qubes alternatives may go to General Discussion (edit: disregard this second part)
- @Sven: agree with @fsflover & @deeplow
- (add yours here)
@deeplow’s description proposal
All discussions not directly related to Qubes OS but tangential to it (privacy, freedom, system administration, security, research, …).
Criteria for inclusion / exclusion and examples
I suggest this because it’s likely easier for people to understand what belongs and what doesn’t. Something along the lines of what’s on the Qubes CoC, but applied to this category’s content.
*Does this sound like a good idea? If so, please add examples bellow each of these.
Inclusion criteria
- relevant but not specific to Qubes OS
- (add yours here)
| topic | criteria |
|---|---|
| Can websites track me across different qubes? | relevant but not specific to Qubes OS |
| https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/which-messenger-program-to-use/1278/ | relevant but not specific to Qubes OS |
| OpSec / Threat modeling | relevant but not specific to Qubes OS |
| Discussion on Purism | relevant but not specific to Qubes OS |
| gaming on Linux in general | |
| security/privacy implications of gaming | |
| how to configure your firewall for specific games | |
| dependencies of specific games | |
| How do I … on Debian/Fedora/Windows/…? | |
| How do these programs compare in terms of security / privacy? | |
| OpSec around my Qubes computer | |
| OpSec when using email/IM/communications | |
| Comparing VPNs … what can they do and what not? | |
| Advantages and disadvantages of Tor? | |
| Reducing memory footprint of my Debian/Fedora… | |
| Comparison of intrusion detection systems and how to use them | |
| What can encryption do for me and what are the limitations? | |
| Good books / presentations / tutorials about security / privacy / linux administration / … | |
| Advanced firewall rules | |
| (add yours here) |
Exclusion Criteria
- directly affects Qubes
- specific to Qubes OS
- @deeplow: add comment here that that belongs in the rest of the forum.
- is not relevant to Qubes OS use
- @deeplow: this one may be ambigous.
- harmful to community / violates CoC – politics / activism of any kind
- @deeplow: I think “politics / activism” should be a separate point as it may not consititute CoC violations.
- (add yours here)
| topic | criteria |
|---|---|
| something that violates the Code of Conduct | CoC violation |
| NitroPad X230 laptop | directly affects Qubes (?) |
| European Union And OS level Backdoors | directly affects Qubes (?) |
| How to promote Qubes | Specific to Qubes |
| Installed Qubes on secondary SSD; boots into first drive | (?) |
| (add yours here) |
Category color & icon
It will likely sit between User support and Mailing Lists so the yellow might be the color to go with the keep the scheme. This way it won’t look too out of place. But I wanted to get other’s opinions.
Regarding the icon, we should probably find a font-awesome icon that kind of represents the content of this category.
color & icon proposals
| color | icon | remarks |
|---|---|---|
| yellow | dashed/crossed-out Qubes logo | (add your remarks here) |
| yellow | comments f086 (font-awesome) | (add your remarks here) |
| yellow | comment-slash 0xf4b3 (font-awesome) | (add your remarks here) |
| yellow | comment-dots 0xf4ad (font-awesome) | (add your remarks here) |
| yellow | code-branch 0xf126 (font-awesome) | (add your remarks here) |
| yellow | mug-hot 0xf7b6 (font-awesome) | (add your remarks here) |
| yellow | paper-plane 0xf1d8 (font-awesome) | (add your remarks here) |
| yellow | door-open 0xf52b (font-awesome) | (add your remarks here) |
| yellow | lightbulb 0xf0eb (font-awesome) | (add your remarks here) |
| yellow | user-shield 0xf505(font-awesome) | @Sven |