 Hi people, my name is Ruben Loebes. I'm one of the people who's working on Freedom Box and Yeah, nobody was coming here for this year. So I thought let me do it. I'm again not a coder. I'm not even a Slightshow maker so you can see that maybe later on because I've got really good slides like this one Yeah, that is the main slide to me so The idea for me with Freedom Box was I came here to foster them 2011 and there was a mowlin with this speech Why political ability depends on software freedom more than ever? it's in 2011 and this strange thing is I watched it yesterday again to Prepare and I was like, oh man, this could have been just today and This the things that he talks about are really Very interesting. So if you ever have some time left try to watch that video again Back to the main slide Freedom Box has Came into existence because people have no real option for security and taking things and through their own hands Except for people like the projects that are presented here and I've seen a lot of people saying like But there is no way to do this Well, there are a number of ways that are halfway finished or just begun begun but We've been working on this for a long time and our idea is to have a small box That you can buy cheaply Just like a raspberry, but then Most likely even more free. So there is the olimax from the people downstairs and The Beaglebone from Jason Kirtner and it's a Beaglebone foundation they have really open source hardware not only the software and we are Debian to your distribution the idea about that is You want to keep everything Debian? So when a release comes up? Everything that can be included has to be part of Debian as well Well, so this time the freeze is just about to start So as a principle, I can tell you no, thank you. We cannot use your work. No help needed There is just one bug that has to be done for the release of the new stretch and for that we're done We've added translations. We have a pretty okay set of of tools but from there on after stretch there will be Buster and from there on we can have a lot of fun making new tools and build out the foundation that we have built so On on that we do need help so We now have the We will be in Debian stretch This will be the first time that as a Debian pure distribution we will be included and the other parts that are needed to use it as a as a tool for yourself are available now we have the The things to do with it and the small machines are really cheap at the moment So the next steps will be adding Adding new tools most likely from Debian and We now have a blog we have The voice telephone video telephone XMPP well, most of the things that you would expect from a project like this and It is all runnable from these small Boxes, but there is a lot of tools that are already in Debian that are not used by the project yet and there is a lot of things that can be Included outside of Debian that are not even considered by most of the projects here yet For instance, I personally would like to see something like K a light which is the offline version of Khan Academy which normally Gives you a lot of education, but informs a lot about your learning process to big data Which is none of my interest and I don't think they should be looking at my learning curve As well, so this has not been used by any of the Host-it-yourself projects as far as I know, but I personally think it would be very interesting to add that to the normal curriculum because it's not just Being able to use the code That's made by everybody, but it's also Improving yourself and improving your knowledge about the world so you can participate in a broader way and Also, what people keep telling me is It needs things like theming by now. We're just using a Debian website to control this and Jungle website with bootstrap and no theming. So, you know what it looks like. That's why I put the demo up here and know and Yeah, so There is a lot of things to improve but we have a foundation At this point we could use a lot of Help and translation although we have a lot of things but a lot of ways to improve how people use it and how they could Show it to other people and of course we try to be a The software for an appliance for ordinary users It's not at that level yet. We sometimes still need to use the the terminal sometimes still need to find arcane solutions to two things that should be known and done already but We are getting there and at this moment we are getting three new Participants that are working full-time on this. There is an Indian Non-profit that's called ThoughtWorks and they're sponsoring the main developer at the moment Sunil Adhapar and two of his colleagues to get this on the way and So if somebody helps out there is a lot of people also helping out and this will make your contribution be More and use in an easy way back to the main slide At this point, I would like to say there is a lot of people saying things like There is no way What do I have to hide well The point of that is you don't need to have something to hide you have things to protect and People telling you you have things to you you don't have things to hide that doesn't really matter but And the the issue is who do you want to hide some things from? I've got a friend who told me this last week and I asked him. What exactly do you not want to hide from? Kim Yong Il or Trump or whoever they should just not be in your life anyway, so That's a different way of looking at it in Holland We had a survey about what do you do and an elevator it was in the 70s and one of the the main conclusions was scratch my ass and Yeah, that's something that you can do when you're in private and an elevator and nobody's watching at you So by now we did the the whole study again and the whole answer it did not ever come up again Because everybody knows that thing in there is looking if I'm scratching my ass now So yeah at that point, you know that you have you have to change your your ways and a lot of people when they are Shown it in a way like this. They notice that they have changed What they are doing and why they're doing the things that they do? so I Think the need for these kind of projects is getting bigger and bigger so I would like to invite everybody to come to the summer festival Sha it's a hacker camp just like The Congress of CCC but then in summer and as a camping It's five days and there is a lot of people doing projects there and villages and on the main stage there is still a possibility to to reach in to the call of participation so and that way there is still a lot of Things that we could do during this summer to get this project but also a lot of other projects like the cozy the you know host and These kinds of projects getting them more online and Yeah, I would like to invite everybody to come over there and maybe We can add some talks or maybe even a village concentrated on that and yeah That is mainly the idea about what the freedom box could do and so I would like to Reserve a bit of extra time for questions So maybe If there are a lot of questions, yes And It's quite easy to add people If we the question was if you want to use software that's not packaged yet for Debian How do you do it? Well the plan is a plan is the tool that we use to have a web interface and It is quite modular. So if you want to you can easily add modules to it to To use the project the products that you need But they will not be included in the next stable release of the of the software but if you want to use that there is a you can make it as an add-on and You can also make a derived distribution that a lot of people already are making So you start off with a freedom box, which is pure Debian and from there on you can add your own parts and So we will be in stable soon But the newest part of the development will be going into testing So at some point people will be us go into testing now for the the newer features and They may or may not be included into the next Debian like we had Charlie, which is a Small application to keep your bookmarks and it's a really nice application But in the end it got dropped from Debian and we had to drop it from the desk from freedom box as well Yeah Okay, that's short Yeah Yes, that's for me Freedom of saying Okay, that's good, it's not going to be anywhere on any accounts So if you if anybody likes I'll delete the whole picture That was just something that I saw somebody do and I thought oh, that's nice. So if sorry Yeah, okay, I don't mind So That is making up making the point in the in the first place So if you have privacy issues, you should be able to say something and if you are talking to people Instead of to a big company like Google It's very difficult to do that and with the person you can just come up and say hey You personally I think you're doing something wrong So I'm really even proud that you guys are saying this and yeah Okay, yes Sorry I don't understand Backport we're look do we use backports and Debian We aren't This is the first time that we are being Included in the Debian stable. So we are looking into using that So if there are Debian devs who are Willing to help us out getting into that that would be very Advantages to us, but we don't have that set up yet also because the the backports team until now I think told us Please come to us when the times there But we are planning to do so To keep people on stable able to move with the the backports to have some extra features already but Yeah, that is an issue with Debian and The aging of the software during the the years till the next Buster release That's going to be the next tool Hi I have no direct contact with the logs So I person. Oh, yeah, how many people have been using downloaded and are using the freedom box at the moment I personally have no info about how much exactly But I see a lot of people a number of people in my community that are Testing it and I There is some information on the on the wiki which is on the freedom box or So there is some usage information, but I think at the moment it's a few hundred people at the most Anyone yeah I Yes What about the email server was a question The email server is still not and we have round cube now To read email but email servers are very much a moving target So What is good to use today is not good to use tomorrow So it's really difficult to keep that up straight and anyway Is there a way to secure email anyway at all? I think by now we should say that email is just On its last legs and we have to move on to the next system. That is just not So well suited for more and more Reading of you instead of you reading the internet. So there is always metadata leading leaking and Changing that would change would need Email to change its general nature. So in my opinion, I hope there never will be Yeah, some things just have to die at some point. Yeah But there are a lot of other protocols and options that are that are possible to take over its role and Yeah some things from Long ago are still current like I really like the the quassel Core use and freedom box. That's one of my main uses to use IRC, which is also already from the 60s and That has aged a bit better, but a lot of the old protocols are just not capable of improving to current specs anyone Okay, this is going to be short talk Thank you that okay