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+# I have time, how can I help?
+
+## Packaging
+
+* Look into `AppImage` + https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt.
+  We've not considered that option too much in the past, but it might give us
+  a decent, self-contained alternative to snap etc.
+ 
+## Linux
+
+* Revamp vpn helper architecture: there're problems, of course, but we can try
+  to isolate the client gui from the vpn helper itself (and "ship it" as
+  a binary under the single bundle, as I do now with bitmak-root). An idea
+  that's been floating around for a long time is to recycle the helper
+  interface, and have a long-lived privileged helper that does the vpn
+  connection using openvpn3 libr.
+
+  elijah was initially supporting a short-lived helper (what we have right now
+  with bitmask-root), but perhaps the integration can be done right with pkexec
+  or otherwise (separate users in linux etc). This has the additional advantage
+  of allowing us to do a very early startup, and not to depend so much on
+  pkexec + ubuntu's quirks (portability!).