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diff --git a/fb/epfsug2.mdwn b/fb/epfsug2.mdwn index f9acc97..5cb2959 100644 --- a/fb/epfsug2.mdwn +++ b/fb/epfsug2.mdwn @@ -1,22 +1,55 @@ # What is FreedomBox? And when can I have one? -[[!tag talk]] - -The FreedomBox is a project to help you to stay in control of your own -privacy on the internet. Why is this needed? Because you often loose or -have to give up privacy rights in whole or in part when you participate -in centralised social network platforms. Privacy concerned computer -enthusiasts have practised protection of personal digital freedoms for -quite some time now, using a range of well known and reliable technical -tools. FreedomBox is aiming at putting those tools is a tiny low-power -box, but improved to be dead-easy to use for anyone. Jonas will explain -the current state of the FreedomBox project and explore and expose what -is fundamentally at stake and show how each of you can turn the internet -around to serve yourself and thereby all of us. And to do that in the -EP, you might actually need a hedgehog to help you! - -[Talk](../talk/epfsug) at EPFSUG about FreedomBox, November 2012. - -[Source of talk](http://source.jones.dk/?p=jones/content.git;a=blob;f=fb/talk/epfsug2.mkd). - -Video from talk (not available yet...). +[[!meta date="2012-11-09"]] +[[!tag talk debian blog fb]] + +On wednesday 7. of November I gave talk at EPFSUG in Brussels about +FreedomBox. + +EPFSUG is an interest group Free Software users working inside the +European Parliament. + +The FreedomBox is a project to that helps non-geeks care about their +personal privacy when online, same ways as geeks have practiced for a +decade or more. + +The goal is a small, cheap hardware box looking like and operating like +an internet gateway or wifi router many are accustomed to nowadays - but +with two additions: + + * Easy and intuitive to setup and personalize for non-geeks + * Offers routines to help you protect your privacy + * Offers routines to let you help others in need of privacy + +"Privacy" is commonly mistaken as "secrecy": Privacy is to keep you in +control of your information - you can then use that control to keep +secrets from others or to share with others as you like. + +Talking about personal privacy at the European Parliament was a bit of a +twist, because that place is not a home but a (huge) office space, where +it is arguably less obvious that you should treat information as +personal, or that you are even allowed to do so. + +Try watch the [videos][], and if you have questions then please don't +hesitate to get in touch with me about them. + +At the EPFSUG meeting was also a presentation by an emplyee who had +succesfully installed and used Free Software at the internal network of +the Parliament, but then later told that it wasn't allowed - because the +IT staff need to be in control of your computer activities at the place! + +The head of IT services at the Parliament attended the meeting, and +gave a short improvised talk at the end clarifying the positive interest +from the established IT services at the place towards our grassroots +activities - and even praising explicitly EPFSUG as being the ideal +place for all EU citizens to ask questions about Free Software in +relation to the European Parliament. See for yourself at the video of +Giancarlo! + +Thanks a lot especially to Erik Josefsson for making this event reality! + +[Slides](../talk/epfsug), [sources][] and [videos][] from the event. + +[sources]: http://source.jones.dk/?p=jones/content.git;a=blob;f=fb/talk/epfsug2.mkd + +[videos]: http://media.biks.dk/fb/epfsug2/ |