Project Proposal Lighthouse

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Better Angels Lighthouse will provide a central directory of Buoy-enabled websites, easing the process of discovery for new users and removing the burden on wiki contributors from needing to manually maintain the List of Buoy-enabled websites page.

Purpose

Lighthouse is intended to help people who do not have a Buoy find and pick one to use. With Lighthouse, it mean that people who ask "how do I get Buoy?" can get an answer like "go to and click on a Buoy" which is a lot easier than telling people, "Well first you need to have a WP site."

For some similar projects, see Tor Atlas and The-Federation.info.

Stats to gather

Some off-the-cuff suggestions, not a final list:

• Where is this Buoy? City/State/Country level info?
• How long has this Buoy been up? (Uptime/reliability, etc., though this isn't necessarily something Buoy needs to send Lighthouse, explicitly)
• Does this Buoy provide open registration? If not, what kinds of registrations are allowed? I.e., is it for anarchists, is it for DV shelters, is it for a mental health peer support group?
• Does the Buoy support HTTPS (TLS)?
• How many users are active on this Buoy?
• What version of the Buoy software does this Buoy actually run?
• What optional features does this Buoy have enabled? (E.g., are "safe calls" enabled?)
• What social networks can this Buoy talk to? I.e., can you get an alert via Twitter DM if you use this Buoy?

We should consider privacy implications before actually gathering any of this information.

Buoy's role

If a Buoy is installed on a WordPress website that does not allow open registration, then it will default to not sending Lighthouse any telemetry.