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Freedom Box Project

Inspired by Eben Moglen's vision of a small, cheap and simple computer that serves freedom in the home. We are building a Debian based platform for distributed applications.

Template:Attachment:freedombox.png Freedom Box is about:

 * privacy
 * control
 * ease of use
 * dehierarchicalization

Vision Statement

We live in a world where our use of the network is mediated by organizations that often do not have our best interests at heart. By building software that does not rely on a central service, we can regain control and privacy. By keeping our data in our homes, we gain useful legal protections over it. By giving back power to the users over their networks and machines, we are returning the Internet to its intended peer-to-peer architecture.

In order to bring about the new network order, it is paramount that it is easy to convert to it. The hardware it runs on must be cheap. The software it runs on must be easy to install and administrate by anybody. It must be easy to transition from existing services.

There are a number of projects working to realize a future of distributed services; we aim to bring them all together in a convenient package.

Talks and presentations are available here.

Project Resources

* [Foundation]
* [project]
* [Mailing list]
 *[Foundation Update Announcements only]
 *[Identity mailing list]
 *[Internationalization mailing list]
 *[Internationalization (spanish) mailing list]
 *[Internationalization (german) mailing list]
 *[Dreamplug Release Testing]
* [group]
* [[1]]
* [Austria]

Want to contribute?

* Welcome!

Work pages

 * /Roadmap
  * 0.2 Release TODOs
  * Unscheduled TODOs
  * Beta Release TODOs
  * 1.0 Release TODOs
 * Hackfests, where we get together to work on items from the roadmap.
  * Feb., 2012
  * July, 2012
 * Getting started
  * Virtual Box Images
  * /DreamPlug
   * /DreamPlug/Firmware
 * Being "FreedomBox Ready"

Ideas

 * Current Progress
 * /Requirements
 * /DesignAndToDos
 * /FirstHandsOn, or how will the owner install her box.
 * /BoxConfiguration
 * Client/Server Communication
 * /IdentityManagement
 * /Tools, where links to tools used to develop the FreedomBox are put together.
 * /Configs, a page to write down all the configuration of software that will be shipped in the FreedomBox
 * /DistributedNaming
 * /Connections, how users connect to !FreedomBoxes from !FreedomBoxes and the outside Internet
 * /macAddresses

User experience

 *  Visual identity
 *  Users and Use Cases
 *  User interface
 *  User Stories

Software & protocols

 * [Projects and TODOs]
 * /LeavingTheCloud
 * /ExampleProjects
 * End user requirements brainstorm
 * /SoftwareRequirements
 * Verification of crypto keys on mobile devices

Hardware

 * /HardwareRequirements
 * /TargetedHardware

Legal

 * /PrivacyAtHome

Tell people about FreedomBox

* FreedomBox in the Press
* Conferences
* Talks and presentations
 * Available Material Slides and other raw material
* [[2]]
* [[3]]
* [[4]]
* [[5]]
* [Videos]

Test it

* Weekly Images
* [images to work on (qemu or virtualbox)]

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