Netizen Spin

Spin Name

Fedora Netizen

Summary

Fedora Netizen Spin is an operating system providing privacy, security, analytics, and engagement tools for citizens, governments, and nonprofits operating and administering network devices on the internet.

Initial Release Goal

• Fedora 22

Owner

• Name: Corey Leong, MNM, MA*
• Email: cleong at fedoraproject dot org

Detailed Description

Fedora Netizen is an open source operating system for enabling internet citizens to engage with online services and communities. The goal for Netizen is to pattern the operating system's features after Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs which was published in his 1943 paper, "A Theory of Human Motivation". Abraham Maslow theorized that all individuals attempt to experience five stages of needs starting with physiological, safety, social, esteem, and then ending with self-actualization. Beginning with the first level of physiological needs, individuals' motivational needs ascend upwards to higher levels of needs in order, however, only after establishing lower levels of needs first before ascending to the next level.

The philosophy for Netizen closely relates to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs by establishing three primary software package levels in a hierarchical model. The first and lowest software package level addresses the need for Netizen Privacy in the areas of personal privacy, informational privacy, and communication privacy. After Netizen Privacy, the second software package level addresses the need for Netizen Security in the areas of data security, local security, and network security. After Netizen Security, the third software package level addresses the need for Netizen Engagement in the areas of publishing, education, and social engagement.

Future Netizen software package levels will address analytics, awareness, design, develop, and others.

Benefit to Fedora

In an effort to benefit Fedora, Netizen's marketing goal is to expose the spin project to new, alternative users not yet targeted such as:

• Activists
• Political Advocates
• Volunteers
• Researchers

In addition, organizations and institutions in the public and charity sectors are ideal entities for gaining new users and new installations. The following are Netizen potentials:

• Government Agencies
• Political Action Committees
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Research Institutes

As development continues, new types of users, organizations, and sectors may be identified for maximizing future marketing efforts of Netizen and its beneficial features as an ideal operating system and open source software solution.

Kickstart File

Initial kickstart file to be added.

ISO Name / FS Label

• ISO Name: Fedora-$release-$arch-Netizen.iso
• FS Label: Fedora-$release-$arch-Netizen

Projected Package Hierarchy

Netizen Privacy Packages

Package Name	Web site	Summary
Tor	https://www.torproject.org	Anonymizing overlay network for TCP

Netizen Security Packages

Package Name	Web site	Summary
Iptables	http://www.netfilter.org/projects/iptables	Tools for managing Linux kernel packet filtering

Netizen Analytics Packages

Package Name	Web site	Summary
Mysql	http://www.mysql.com	A multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server
Postgresql	http://www.postgresql.org	An advanced Object-Relational DBMS

Netizen Engagement Packages

Package Name	Web site	Summary
Mediawiki	http://www.mediawiki.org	A wiki engine

Modifications

No modifications exist.

Testing

Each software package included in a netizen release will be tested for installation errors and software package bugs.

A quality assurance report will accompany each test for documentation purposes.

Dependencies

No dependencies exist.

Slogan

Empowering Internet Citizens Everywhere.

Support

Trac/Git Wiki

Monitor our ongoing progress for this project on our trac/git wiki.

Help via Email

Fedora Netizen users and developers are also available on the Fedora Netizen mailing list at netizen@lists.fedoraproject.org.

• Subscribe to the list

• Post a message to the list

For guidance on how to interact on Fedora mailing lists, please review the Fedora Mailing List Guidelines.

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Netizen_Spin

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