Hello, I have recently been to 2 conferences where I talked about the FreedomBox. * European Identity Conference (EIC): I was in a workshop about "Life Management Platforms", and I explained the FreedomBox concept to the audience. This was a very corporate kind of conference, but guess what, there was actually a lot of talk about decentralization! See my blog post here<http://blog.projectdanube.org/2012/04/freedombox-at-the-european-identity-conference/> . * Internet Identity Workshop (IIW): I brought 4 Guruplugs and did a demo of what a FreedomBox COULD enable. See my blog post here<http://blog.projectdanube.org/2012/05/freedombox-at-the-internet-identity-workshop/> for a description and some screenshots of the demo. At IIW, it is customary that at the end of each day, participants award each other wine and chocolate for special achievements. And well, I got (half) a bag of chocolate for the FreedomBox demo. At the two events, I mentioned consistently that I am not speaking for FreedomBox "officially", but that I had been observing it for a while. I'd really love to get more closely involved, perhaps I could even make it to the June Hackfest (but it's a long and expensive flight, don't know). Specifically, I'd like to do the following: 1. Start a discussion on how the FreedomBox could fit into some communities I am in touch with, especially the Personal Data Ecosystem<http://personaldataecosystem.org/> (PDE) and Vendor Relationship Management<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/> (VRM). PDE is about giving individuals control over their personal data. Uhm, it's also about new business opportunities, something like a "fair trade for data". VRM is about giving you the means to manage your relationships with the vendors/suppliers you deal with in your life. 2. On the technical side, figure out the path to building the custom demo software from IIW on top of the existing FreedomBox stack, i.e. integrate it with Plinth, Santiago, etc. Find attached the chocolate :) Markus -- Project Danube: http://projectdanube.org Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium: http://personaldataecosystem.org/ _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE