FreedomBox

Jonas Smedegaard

Cambridge, United Kingdom, February 22nd, 2011

Concept

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

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?)

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