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% 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
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