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+INPUTLOOP.COM - internet service bus
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+Assertion based stream and transactional data federation toolkit.
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+Initial TODO:
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+ - [X] Start detailed project planning (this file)
+ - [X] Make a git repository for the project
+ - [ ] Start the homepage
+ - [ ] Add authorized users area to website
+   - [ ] write webservice access control configuration
+   - [ ] create seed password file and set permissions
+   - [ ] create authorized user landing page
+   - [ ] add login form to homepage
+   - [ ] configure feil2ban to guard login form and protected resources
+ - [-] Add simple file upload
+   - [X] install CGI::Upload
+   - [ ] create file upload CGI program in Perl
+     - [ ] accept/require the following multi-part form-data:
+       - file-stream (0bytes .. 1.2GB limit)
+       - filename (required, generate if none, don't error unless stream is also zero bytes)
+       - title (text field, optional, becomes commit short description)
+       - description (textarea, optional, becomes commit message body)
+       - overwrite (optional, checkbox; when form passes a truthy value overwrite, otherwise error)
+       - files are placed in users home directories into ~/Uploads which is a symlink to /srv/git/<username>/Uploads
+	 - upon first use by user, create this directory structure and initialize git within the upload folder
+       - git commit upon successfully writing the uploaded file to disc
+   - [ ] install within protected site area
+   - [ ] add file browser for Upload area (CGIT probably, but web server allow-indexing might be fine)
+ - [ ] create system users and groups, configure rsync
+ - [ ] Add system users/keys for alpha users/testers
+ - [ ] Add user settings to website
+ - [ ] Add user sync settings to website
+ - [ ] Add live-cast to website
+   - [ ] audio
+   - [ ] video
+ - [ ] Add live-editor page to website
+   - [ ] audio
+   - [ ] video
+ - [ ] Create projects area (ability for users to create system groups and for the various tools to save/load/use them)
+ - [ ] Add user privacy flag and ability to browse non-private users, add them to projects, and share uploaded files and open mixes or active streams with them
+ - [ ] Add ability for users to generate share-with-me links so private users can invite specific people to share directly with them
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+* Development Log
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+~2025-05-16~ bought this domain several years back to host a javscript based audio editor I made; I was thinking of making it edit video, sync audio with video, etc. tedious chores which, like clipping big audio files into little ones and annotating them with meta-data, is more fun when several people work together on a given project.  Recently, other projects have necessitated additional tooling for arbitrary ad-hoc data-sharing between peers. Things like file sharing on the go or throwing a hunk of audio from one person another in near-real-time have been coming up a lot so it seemed to make sense to re purpose this project somewhat more generally, so it can serve as a "big tent" for working on these problems.