Overview

• State of the net
• FreedomBox
• Homebase

Me

Photo: Jacob Gorm Hansen

Me

• Debian developer since 2001.
• Maintains the Sugar desktop (from One Laptop Per Child a.k.a. "$100 laptop").
• Maintains Semantic Web tools.
• Maintains calendar, web authoring and chat tools, and a lot more...
• Involved with Skolelinux
• Advisor for large deployment in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
• Independent consultant and system administrator since 1996.
• Administrates Homebase (home for Kaospilots and Frontrunners) since 1996.
• Guide or sysadmin for schools, startups, lawyers, performers etc...

State of the net

Photo: Andrew Beierle via sxc

Once was free flowing communication

Photo: unknown

Then efficiency ruled

Photo: abcdz2000

All eggs in one basket

Sketch: Siri Reiter

FreedomBox can help change the game

Photo: John Nyberg via sxc

Your eggs close to you

Sketch: Siri Reiter

State of FreedomBox

Photo: Kriss Szkurlatowski via sxc

FreedomBox: Made by geeks...

Photo: Biella Coleman

FreedomBox: Users are not geeks

Photo: Justyna Furmanczyk via sxc

FreedomBox: Made for serious use

Photo: Claudio Maciel via sxc

FreedomBox: cheap, ugly, eco-friendly box

Photo: Martin Michlmayr

FreedomBox: Possibly less ugly at the end

Photo: Radek Polak

FreedomBox use

Ideas:

• "Hello?"
• "Wauw!"

FreedomBox use

Ideas:

• "Hello?" → like phone, but intelligent
• "Wauw!" → like twitter, but intelligence is yours

FreedomBox use

• Exciting stuff
• Boooring server stuff!

European Parliament email

Sketch: Siri Reiter

FreedomBox use: European Parliament email

Sketch: Siri Reiter

FreedomBox & Homebase

• Homebase concept: Similar to FreedomBox
• Homebase now: Same "lego" as FreedomBox
• Homebase future: Same "duplo" as FreedomBox

More info

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

Use the source, Luke

• Me:
• This talk: http://dr.jones.dk/fb/kp/