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% FreedomBox and Edge - Privacy in the European Parliament
% Jonas Smedegaard
% Brussels, Belgium, November 7th, 2012
Overview

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

Me

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

Once was free flowing communication

More efficient structures emerge

Simple efficiency is all eggs in one basket

FreedomBox can change the game

FreedomBox keep data closer to you

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

Possibly less ugly at the end

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

Edge managing MS-mail

Edge managing internet mail, thanks to FreedomBox

Edge and FreedomBox needs us

We need hackers

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

More info

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

Use the source, Luke

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