% FreedomBox
% Jonas Smedegaard
% Cambridge, United Kingdom, February 22nd, 2011

# Concept

  * Aim: Move logfiles of internet activities physically home
  * Put freedom-enabling technologies in a small low-power box

# History

 * Eben Moglen gives targeted talk to groups within the larger Freedom movement
  * Spring 2010: first(?) talk on freedom vs. "cloud" computing
  * Late Spring 2010: NYU talk spawns Diaspora project
  * Summer 2010: Talk at Debconf 10 spawns Debian FreedomBox project

# Status

 * Eben Moglen
  * Consistently avoid hiliting specific projects (e.g. Diaspora) in talks
  * February 2011: Forms FreedomBox Foundation - linking to Debian FreedomBox project
  * Gets USD 50,000 in 5 days (aiming at 60,000) for leadership tasks
 * Spawned Debian project
  * Lots of ideas at mailinglist
  * Lots of collected material at wiki - on more or less production ready code
  * Little work on design
  * Little work on creating actual usable snapshot

# "My FreedomBox"

  * Dreams
  * Design
  * Software
  * Hardware

# "My FreedomBox", detailed

  * Dream → share and discuss them at ML, collect notes at wiki
  * Design → guidelines - requiring least possible unification, e.g. preferrably modular
  * Software → Debian Pure Blends
  * Hardware → simplest possible Plug hardware (= SheevaPlug?)

# "My crystalball"

  * Upstream invents, implements and production-redies code
  * Debian packages production-ready code projects
  * FreedomBox team develops a "Freedom" Debian Pure Blend
  * Derivative(s) cherry-picks official (and maybe unofficial) FreedomBox pieces
  * Derivative(s) negotiate with hardware vendors
  * Derivative(s) installs actual "Debian (un)Pure Blends install" onto box hardware
  * Derivative(s) negotiate with distribution channels of physical boxes
  * End-users buy FreedomBox in shop

# "My crystalball", Blend details

  * Upstream provides code
  * Debian provides packaging and infrastructure
  * FreedomBox team invents and refines design guidelines (plural!)
  * FreedomBox team maintains debtags
  * FreedomBox team maintains package lists (plural!), preferrably from debtags
  * FreedomBox team refine debconf preseeding lists
  * FreedomBox team maintains unofficial(!) config hacks
  * FreedomBox team promotes patches replacing config hacks with debconf'ization
  * FreedomBox team maintains unofficial(!) snapshot build routines (plural!)
  * Derivative(s) consumes code packaging composition(s)
  * End-users buy FreedomBox in shop

# Links

  * <http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox>
  * <http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/>