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% FreedomBox - a Debian Pure Blend % Jonas Smedegaard % BMSIT, Bangalore, November 5th, 2011

Overview

  • Me and Asia
  • Eben Moglen and the Cloud
  • FreedomBox: Debian Pure Blend + commercial hardware
  • Debian - the Universal Operating System
  • Customizing Debian - deriving and blending
  • Making FreedomBox dead user friendly
  • Ways to help

Me

Me and Asia

Asia trip

Eben Moglen and the Cloud

  • Internet was designed non-hierarchical
  • Microsoft enslaved us with client-server concept
  • Google and Facebook spy on us

Eben Moglen and the Cloud - solution

  • Host personal data under own legal control (in your home)
  • Use consumer-appealling hardware (cheap, low-power)
  • Make software dead simple to use

FreedomBox: Debian Pure Blend + commercial hardware

  • ✔ Eben persuades Debian to implement a "pure blend"
  • Debian blends privacy best practices and services for non-geeks
  • Eben persuades hardware vendors to ship with Debian blend
  • Companies sell boxes with Debian blend (or rebranded fork)

Debian - the Universal Operating System

  • Generic - choices are exposed to the user
  • Mother of other distros (Ubuntu, BOSS, SWECHA, ...)

Customizing Debian - deriving and blending

  • Deriving: hacking with your face away from Debian
  • Blending: Hacking with you face towards Debian
  • Debian Pure Blend: Perfection → your hacks integrated into Debian!

Making FreedomBox dead user friendly

  • Nice looking web-based control panel

Making FreedomBox dead user friendly

  • ~~Nice looking web-based control panel~~
  • Phone handset and voice menu
  • Chat bot: Your personal butler...

Making FreedomBox dead user friendly

  • ~~Nice looking web-based control panel~~
  • Phone handset and voice menu
  • Chat bot: Your personal spy!

Ways to help

  • Join mailinglist and look at wiki pages
  • Install Debian, install relevant packages, and customize configurations
  • Play with the blending tool "boxer"

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2010-October/000164.html

The End