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

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:
• 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