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FreedomBox Summit 2020 (posted 2020-11-25)
The FreedomBox Foundation is pleased to announce that we will hold our third consecutive annual FreedomBox Summit on Friday, December 4th, 2020. The Summit this year is fully virtual with participants meeting over video conference. Invited members of the FreedomBox Core Team will join the FreedomBox Foundation's staff for several hours of discussions about our progress since the 2019 Summit and our plans for the year ahead. We look forward to connecting with you.
Publishing a Report of the 2019 FreedomBox Summit (posted 2019-11-22)
The FreedomBox Foundation is pleased to announce that we have published a report of our second annual FreedomBox Summit, which was held on Friday, November 15th, 2019 in New York City. The members of the FreedomBox core team — Sunil Mohan Adapa (Lead Developer), Joseph Nuthalapati (DevOps Engineer), and James Valleroy (Release Manager) — joined the Foundation’s staff for a full day of discussions about the project's future. Our report provides a summary of the Summit’s proceedings. You can download the full report here.
Summary of the FreedomBox Turns 10 Hackathon (posted 2019-11-19)
On Saturday, November 16th, the FreedomBox Foundation co-hosted a hackathon with the Software Freedom Law Center at Columbia Law School to commemorate the upcoming ten-year anniversary of the FreedomBox project's founding. The hackathon attracted 15 participants, who spent a Saturday learning the ins and outs of FreedomBox. Though more time was spent learning than hacking, we were thrilled to see so many newcomers excited about FreedomBox.
A Manual for New Developers (posted 2019-11-08)
We are pleased to announce a new resource for the FreedomBox community: a manual that teaches new developers how to contribute code to FreedomBox. The manual is available at https://docs.freedombox.org/. The inaugural edition of the manual includes a tutorial about how to develop apps for FreedomBox.
FreedomBox Summit 2019 (posted 2019-10-24)
The FreedomBox Foundation is pleased to announce that we will hold our second consecutive FreedomBox Summit on Friday, November 15th, 2019 in New York City. Invited members of the FreedomBox Core Team will join the FreedomBox Foundation's staff for a full day of discussions about our progress since last year's Summit and our plans for the year ahead.
Announcing the "FreedomBox Turns 10 Hackathon" (posted 2019-10-18)
In February 2020, the "Freedom in the Cloud" speech that founded the FreedomBox project will turn 10 years old, which means that our project will also turn 10 years old. This is a huge milestone for FreedomBox. To commemorate the 10 year milestone, the FreedomBox Foundation invites our community to New York City for the "FreedomBox Turns 10 Hackathon" in November!
Please join us to learn about FreedomBox, hack a little, and celebrate our project's 10 year milestone!
Launching the Contributor Invites Program (posted 2019-10-07)
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new community-building initiative: the Contributor Invites program. "Contributor Invites" are small, approachable tasks that the FreedomBox community needs help with. Members of the FreedomBox core team will post requests for help with coding, design, development, documentation, localization, and testing tasks to the FreedomBox Forum; these tasks will be referred to as “Contributor Invites.”
Announcing an E-Book about FreedomBox (posted 2019-09-20)
We are pleased to announce a community-driven effort years in the making: the "FreedomBox for Communities" free e-book has been published to the Wikibooks platform. This e-book was written to teach users how to set up their own community-wide implementation of FreedomBox.
Announcing New Network Manager: Felix Freeman (posted 2019-09-09)
The FreedomBox Foundation is pleased to announce that we have recruited a new Network Manager: Felix Freeman. Felix is a free software activist based in Chile, and he brings a lot of energy and enthusiasm to the FreedomBox community.
DistroWatch Recognizes FreedomBox (posted 2019-09-06)
The FreedomBox Foundation is proud to announce that DistroWatch has officially recognized the FreedomBox operating system as a distribution of Linux! This means that FreedomBox is now listed in DistroWatch's authoritative database of Linux and BSD distributions.