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% FreedomBox % Jonas Smedegaard % Berlin, May 25th, 2013

Overview

  • Background
  • What is it?
  • Why do we need it?
  • Where is it?
  • Now what?

State of the net

Photo: Andrew Beierle via sxc

Once was free flowing communication

Photo: unknown

More efficient structures emerge

Photo: abcdz2000

Simple efficiency is all eggs in one basket

FreedomBox can change the game

Photo: John Nyberg via sxc

FreedomBox keep data closer to you

What? - a summary

FreedomBox: Nice little home server putting you in charge of your own data.

What? - a summary

FreedomBox: Helps You Stay Free.

Who? - a target user

Photo: Biella Coleman

Who? - a target user

Photo: Ove Smedegaard

Who? - a target user

Photo: Ove Smedegaard

Who? - a target user

~~geeks~~ ~~superheroes~~ normal folks

What? - the functionality

Digital "servant" to aid in personal digital activities.

...a virtual butler.

What? - the functionality

Robert!

What? - examples

chat, blogging, phone calls, note keeping, browser bookmarking...

Why? - the need

Privacy is important

Why? - the need

Privacy is...

the right to be let alone

Louis Brandeis, 1890

How?

Keep logs at home.

...at physical home!

What?

machine interesting to run at home.

small, cheap, simple, silent, bio-degradable...

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!
  • User POV: same, more trustworthy
  • Geek POV: Same, without cables hanging out

Status

  • Done!

Status - all parts must be super boring

  • Code: write → test → use → recommend
  • packaging: create → test → use → recommend

Status - all parts must be in Debian

Debian ~~creates~~ maintains packages for code projects

Status - all parts must be in Debian

package → install → tweak → snapshot → copy

Status - all parts must be in Debian

~~package → install → tweak → snapshot → copy~~

package flexiblyguided install

Same vision, but maybe multiple goals

Photo: unknown

Even if project fails, efforts live on

Photo: George Hodan

Use the source, Luke