Overview

• State of the net
• State of EP information handling
• State of FreedomBox
• Where and how to go from here

Me

Photo: Jacob Gorm Hansen

Me

• Debian developer since 2001.
• Maintain Sugar (i.e. desktop used in One Laptop Per Child).
• Maintain Perl RDF modules (i.e. Semantic Web libraries).
• Maintain some Jabber, CalDAV and mail tools.
• Maintain a lot more (too many, really!) packages...
• Involved with Skolelinux
• Helped german team with large deployment in Rheinland-Pfalz.
• Independent consultant and system administrator for the Kaospilot University and a few other places.

State of the net

Photo: Andrew Beierle via sxc

Once was free flowing communication

Photo: unknown

More efficient structures emerge

Photo: abcdz2000

Simple efficiency is all eggs in one basket

FreedomBox can change the game

Photo: John Nyberg via sxc

FreedomBox keep data closer to you

Communication in the EP

Photo: Christa Richert via sxc

Efficient structures

Photo: unknown

FreedomBox can make a change

Photo: Jayesh Nair via sxc

State of FreedomBox

Photo: Kriss Szkurlatowski via sxc

Made by geeks...

Photo: Svilen Milev via sxc

Made for non-geek users

Photo: unknown

Made for serious non-geek users

Photo: Claudio Maciel via sxc

A cheap, ugly, eco-friendly box

Photo: Martin Michlmayr

Possibly less ugly at the end

Photo: Radek Polak

What does FreedomBox do?

• Boooring server stuff!

What does FreedomBox do?

Examples:

• "Hello?"
• "Wauw!"

What does FreedomBox do?

Examples:

• "Hello?" → like phone, but intelligent
• "Wauw!" → like twitter, but intelligence is yours

Edge

Photo: Miguel Bastos via sxc

Edge managing MS-mail

Edge managing internet mail, thanks to FreedomBox

Edge and FreedomBox needs us

Photo: Justyna Furmanczyk via sxc

We need hackers

Photo: Biella Coleman

We need early adopters

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We need promotors

Photo: Darren Foster

Let's try coordinate our efforts

Photo: Tanja Sund via sxc

Where to best do which types of hacking

Same vision, but maybe multiple goals

Photo: unknown

Even if project fails, efforts live on

Photo: George Hodan

Milestone: workshop summer 2013

Photo: PDPhotos via Pixabay

More info

• FreedomBox: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
• EPFSUG: http://epfsug.eu/

Use the source, Luke

• Me:
• This talk: http://dr.jones.dk/fb/epfsug2
• Sketches by Siri Reiter