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  <h1 class="title">FreedomBox</h1>
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Jonas Smedegaard
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  <p class="date">Cambridge, United Kingdom, February 22nd, 2011</p>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="concept">
<h1>Concept</h1>
<ul>
<li>Aim: Move logfiles of internet activities physically home</li>
<li>Put freedom-enabling technologies in a small low-power box</li>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="history">
<h1>History</h1>
<ul>
<li>Eben Moglen gives targeted talk to groups within the larger Freedom movement</li>
<li>Spring 2010: first(?) talk on freedom vs. &quot;cloud&quot; computing</li>
<li>Late Spring 2010: NYU talk spawns Diaspora project</li>
<li>Summer 2010: Talk at Debconf 10 spawns Debian FreedomBox project</li>
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<h1>Status</h1>
<ul>
<li>Eben Moglen</li>
<li>Consistently avoid hiliting specific projects (e.g. Diaspora) in talks</li>
<li>February 2011: Forms FreedomBox Foundation - linking to Debian FreedomBox project</li>
<li>Gets USD 50,000 in 5 days (aiming at 60,000) for leadership tasks</li>
<li>Spawned Debian project</li>
<li>Lots of ideas at mailinglist</li>
<li>Lots of collected material at wiki - on more or less production ready code</li>
<li>Little work on design</li>
<li>Little work on creating actual usable snapshot</li>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="my-freedombox">
<h1>&quot;My FreedomBox&quot;</h1>
<ul>
<li>Dreams</li>
<li>Design</li>
<li>Software</li>
<li>Hardware</li>
</ul>
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<h1>&quot;My FreedomBox&quot;, detailed</h1>
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<li>Dream → share and discuss them at ML, collect notes at wiki</li>
<li>Design → guidelines - requiring least possible unification, e.g. preferrably modular</li>
<li>Software → Debian Pure Blends</li>
<li>Hardware → simplest possible Plug hardware (= SheevaPlug?)</li>
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<div class="section slide level1" id="my-crystalball">
<h1>&quot;My crystalball&quot;</h1>
<ul>
<li>Upstream invents, implements and production-redies code</li>
<li>Debian packages production-ready code projects</li>
<li>FreedomBox team develops a &quot;Freedom&quot; Debian Pure Blend</li>
<li>Derivative(s) cherry-picks official (and maybe unofficial) FreedomBox pieces</li>
<li>Derivative(s) negotiate with hardware vendors</li>
<li>Derivative(s) installs actual &quot;Debian (un)Pure Blends install&quot; onto box hardware</li>
<li>Derivative(s) negotiate with distribution channels of physical boxes</li>
<li>End-users buy FreedomBox in shop</li>
</ul>
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<h1>&quot;My crystalball&quot;, Blend details</h1>
<ul>
<li>Upstream provides code</li>
<li>Debian provides packaging and infrastructure</li>
<li>FreedomBox team invents and refines design guidelines (plural!)</li>
<li>FreedomBox team maintains debtags</li>
<li>FreedomBox team maintains package lists (plural!), preferrably from debtags</li>
<li>FreedomBox team refine debconf preseeding lists</li>
<li>FreedomBox team maintains unofficial(!) config hacks</li>
<li>FreedomBox team promotes patches replacing config hacks with debconf'ization</li>
<li>FreedomBox team maintains unofficial(!) snapshot build routines (plural!)</li>
<li>Derivative(s) consumes code packaging composition(s)</li>
<li>End-users buy FreedomBox in shop</li>
</ul>
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<h1>Links</h1>
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<li><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox"><code class="url">http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox</code></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/"><code class="url">http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/</code></a></li>
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