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

committerJonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>2023-06-27 09:35:08 +0200 commitfd54908da2b05c526dd3bee9b6dcd093214a220d (patch) treec69c845069c99d1d01044f6fafda7c08433329c6 /tags/40/55/CACVKbrXHyQYF0uX7pcoekjs9UFgMuYS_z-r_oPCVCHgD52USnA@mail.gmail.com/old parentba46132213560cf3335d53560d519c0ec0190da2 (diff)

Diffstat (limited to 'tags/40/55/CACVKbrXHyQYF0uX7pcoekjs9UFgMuYS_z-r_oPCVCHgD52USnA@mail.gmail.com/old')