Overview

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

State of the net

Once was free flowing communication

More efficient structures emerge

Multinational companies centralize data flow

skema: points and synapses → blue multipoint-to-dotted-line-to-point → red point-to-point

(dots are logos)

Or...: We asked for it (supply and demand)

skema: points and synapses → blue multipoint-to-dotted-line-to-point → red point-to-point

(dots are dots)

FreedomBox can change the game

blabla how it can change the game

skema: red point-to-point → blue (red at end) multipoint-to-dotted-line-to-to-freedombox-to-point

Communication in the EP

Efficient structures

FreedomBox can make a change

State of FreedomBox

Made by geeks...

Made for non-geek users

Made for serious non-geek users

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"

Hedgehog and FreedomBox

Skema: using Linux in the EP, directly and via proxy

Hedgehog needs FreedomBox

Hedgehog and FreedomBox needs us

We need hackers

Photo: Biella Coleman

We need early adopters

We need promotors

Let's try coordinate our efforts

Where to best do which types of hacking

Same vision, but maybe multiple goals

Even if project fails, efforts live on

Milestone: workshop summer 2013

Use the source, Luke

• Me:
• This talk: http://dr.jones.dk/fb/talk/epfsug2