% FreedomBox - a Debian Pure Blend
% Jonas Smedegaard
% BMSIT, Bangalore, November 5th, 2011

# Overview

 * Me and Asia
 * Eben Moglen and the Cloud
 * FreedomBox: Debian Pure Blend + commercial hardware
 * Debian - the Universal Operating System
 * Customizing Debian - deriving and blending
 * Making FreedomBox dead user friendly
 * Ways to help

# Me

 * Jonas Smedegaard
 * One-man company: IT-guide dr. Jonas
 * Sysadmin at Kaospilot University <http://kaospilot.dk/>
 * Sysadmin at Børneuniversitetet <http://borneuni.dk/>
 * Sysadmin at DGI-huset <http://dgi-huset.dk/>
 * Sysadmin + webmaster at Københavns Delebiler <http://kobenhavnsdelebiler.dk/>

# Me and Asia

![Asia trip](../map.png)

# Eben Moglen and the Cloud

 * Internet was designed non-hierarchical
 * Microsoft enslaved us with client-server concept
 * Google and Facebook spy on us

# Eben Moglen and the Cloud - solution

 * Host personal data under own legal control (in your home)
 * Use consumer-appealling hardware (cheap, low-power)
 * Make software dead simple to use

# FreedomBox: Debian Pure Blend + commercial hardware

 * ✔ Eben persuades Debian to implement a "pure blend"
 * Debian blends privacy best practices and services for non-geeks
 * Eben persuades hardware vendors to ship with Debian blend
 * Companies sell boxes with Debian blend (or rebranded fork)

# Debian - the Universal Operating System

 * Generic - choices are exposed to the user
 * Mother of other distros (Ubuntu, BOSS, SWECHA, ...)

# Customizing Debian - deriving and blending

 >* Deriving: hacking with your face away from Debian
 * Blending: Hacking with you face towards Debian
 * Debian Pure Blend: Perfection → your hacks integrated into Debian!

# Making FreedomBox dead user friendly

 * Nice looking web-based control panel

# Making FreedomBox dead user friendly

 * ~~Nice looking web-based control panel~~
 * Phone handset and voice menu
 * Chat bot: Your personal butler...

# Making FreedomBox dead user friendly

 * ~~Nice looking web-based control panel~~
 * Phone handset and voice menu
 * Chat bot: Your personal spy!

# Ways to help

 * Join mailinglist and look at wiki pages
 * Install Debian, install relevant packages, and customize configurations
 * Play with the blending tool "boxer"

<http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2010-October/000164.html>

# The End

 * Me: <dr@jones.dk>
 * This talk: <http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/pes>
 * Asia trip: <http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011>
 * Debian: <http://www.debian.org>
 * FreedomBox: <http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox>
 * Boxer: <http://git.emdebian.org/?p=upstream/boxer.git;a=blob;f=README>