Dear Gnu Social, The Freedombox development team would like to invite you to our Halloween Hackathon on October 31st in New York City. We want to make the Freedombox more social. We would love to talk to you guys about how to do it right. Plus we have candy. -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: mjones@softwarefreedom.org www.softwarefreedom.org
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