FreedomBox is a community project to develop, design and promote[1] personal servers running free software for distributed social networking, email and audio/video communications.[2] The project was announced by Eben Moglen at the New York ISOC meeting on February 2, 2010.[3]
On February 4, 2011, Moglen formed the FreedomBox Foundation to become the organizational headquarters of the project,[4] and on February 18, 2011, the foundation started a campaign to raise $60,000 in 30 days on the crowdfunding service, Kickstarter.[5] The goal was met on February 22,[6] and on March 19, 2011, the campaign ended after collecting $86,724 from 1,007 backers.[5]
FreedomBox Definition and Scope
The project currently describes a FreedomBox as
| “ | a personal server running a free software operating system, with free applications designed to create and preserve personal privacy. | ” |
The developers aim to create and preserve personal privacy by providing a secure platform for building federated social networks.[7] This shall be done by creating a software stack that can run on plug computers that can easily be located in individual residences or offices. By promoting a decentralized deployment of hardware, the project hopes that FreedomBoxes will "provide privacy in normal life, and safe communications for people seeking to preserve their freedom in oppressive regimes."[8]
Releases
- 0.1
- On 27 August 2012, the first "Developer Preview" was released. It focused on laying the architecture and infrastructure groundwork, rather than being a finished product. The image did nonetheless include the first completed tool, the FreedomBox's Privoxy, which may help to make a user's communications with websites more secure.[9]
See also
References
- ^ "FreedomBox/Roadmap". Debian Wiki. http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Roa dmap. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
- ^ "What will Freedom Boxes do?". FreedomBox Foundation. http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/g oals/. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
- ^ "Highlights of Eben Moglen's Freedom in the Cloud Talk". Software Freedom Law Center. http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2 010/feb/10/highlights-eben-moglens-fr eedom-cloud-talk/. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
- ^ "Why Political Liberty Depends on Software Freedom More Than Ever". Software Freedom Law Center. http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events /2011/fosdem/moglen-fosdem-keynote.ht ml. Retrieved 2011-02-20. "Yesterday in the United States, we formed the FreedomBox Foundation, which I plan to use as the [...] organizational headquarters [...]"
- ^ a b "Push the FreedomBox Foundation from 0 to 60 in 30 days". Kickstarter. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/7 21744279/push-the-freedombox-foundati on-from-0-to-60-in-30. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
- ^ "Thank you Kickstarters". The Freedom Foundation. http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/n ews/Thank_you_Kickstarters/. Retrieved 2011-02-23.
- ^ "Linux.conf.au 2012: FreedomBox's privacy". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.com.au/linuxconfau-2 012-freedomboxs-privacy-339329991.htm. Retrieved 2012-01-19.
- ^ "FreedomBox Foundation". http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
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