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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/01/2013 05:00 PM, James Gilmore
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<div>what about #freedombox ?<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">What about it? As far as I've ever
heard, it isn't remotely ready. Note that the current release
is "0.1," in other words, closer to vaporware than product.
The only active developer I know about for certain is Nick
Daly. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker"
target="_blank">https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker</a>
The front-end for FreedomBox hasn't seen any development in
over a year. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/jvasile/Plinth">https://github.com/jvasile/Plinth</a>
So I'm not confident that Freedombox will ever emerge from its
cocoon. <br>
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There's a marked visibility/PR problem. The email lists are
the ONLY source of info, and if you're not in the thick of it,
it's hard to tell what's going on. Even lurking on this email
list, I often feel like more is actually happening, but just
isn't seeing the light of day. I see inquiries about
FreedomBox all the time, but nobody seems to know anything
about it's true state.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">That said, I think freedombox is mostly
about making existing technology easy to use.</div>
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Speaking of making existing technology easy to use, see:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://yunohost.org/">http://yunohost.org/</a><br>
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What would be great is a way to access some of the existing apps
through Tor hidden services. If yunohost had a plugin for that,
then with an app like Owncloud you wouldn't even need to set up your
own domain-- just access it through any machine connected to the net
through Tor.<br>
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-Jonathan<br>
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