FreedomBox Halloween Hack-a-thon

[Marc Jones]

Dear Diaspora community,

The Freedombox development team would like to invite you to join us at
our Halloween hackathon on October 31st in New York City at the offices
of the Software Freedom Law Center. Our next big push is going to be
integrating in decentralized social networking services into the
Freedombox. So obviously we want a freedombox to be able to host a
Diaspora pod. We would have love to have members of the Diaspora
community come talk to us about the best way to make this happen. Or
alternatively if you happen to be in New York City and you just want to
come eat our candy that is fine too. See below for details if you are
interested in joining us!

-Marc

FreedomBox Halloween Hack-a-thon

The FreedomBox Foundation [1][2] is hosting a Halloween hack-a-thon on
Saturday October 31st at the offices of the Software Freedom Law Center
[3] from 10 am to 6 pm, near Lincoln Center in New York City. New and
existing contributors will be getting together to work on our
Debian-based privacy-respecting self-hosting software suite and wireless
router.

Members of the FreedomBox core development team will be on hand to help
new contributors get involved and to get some actual work done! We are
going to be talking about:
* how to use a FreedomBox as a secure home router;
* using existing Debian packages to integrate them into FreedomBoxes;
* integrating in a secure decentralized social network;
* replacing passwords with an integrated authentication system based on PGP;

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. To
regain control of our privacy, the FreedomBox
(https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/) project is building an integrated
suite of software that does not rely on centralized services. Of course
much of this software already exists. We are hacking, tweaking, and
molding it into a easy to use software suite so everyone can regain
control of their privacy by running a FreedomBox at home.

Bring yourselves, your ideas, your PGP keys, and your Raspberry Pis (or
other device you want to try FreedomBox on!) We will bring the pizza,
over-caffeinated soda, and Halloween candy.


Time: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, October 31st, 2015
Location: Software Freedom Law Center,
1995 Broadway, 17th Floor, New York, NY

To let us know you are coming so we can be sure to order enough food and
caffeine email <hackathon at freedomboxfoundation.org>.

[1] FreedomBox Project: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/
[2] FreedomBox Foundation: http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
[3] Software Freedom Law Center: http://softwarefreedom.org/

--
Marc Jones
Counsel
Software Freedom Law Center
1995 Broadway, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10023
Tel: 212-461-1919
Fax: 212-580-0898
Email: mjo...@softwarefreedom.org
www.softwarefreedom.org