FreedomBox has been successfully used in community deployments to serve a number of useful applications from a locally hosted server. This is documented in the WikiBook, FreedomBox for Communities[1]. I agree with you that a Debian Pure Blend for small organizations overlaps significantly with FreedomBox. However, there are some differences to keep in mind: 1. FreedomBox's primary focus is on privacy, not self-hosting in general. 2. FreedomBox is meant to be small and personal, so supporting an organization with a thousand users is not a priority for the project. The applications desired by home users and office users can be different. For example, a home user can be satisfied with a simple expense tracker to manage personal finances, while an organization might require full-blown accounting software. That being said, FreedomBox is currently the only pure blend that is primarily meant for hosting servers. Hence it can be a very good foundation on which to start the pure blend for small organizations. FreedomBox is already being published as an Amazon Machine Image for easy self-hosting on AWS EC2[2]. Currently, this is only being recommended for trial purposes to FreedomBox users. As Wookey mentioned, in case of a cloud setup, some modules that assume that the device is on a home network can be turned off or some features selectively disabled. Regardless of whether applications are integrated into FreedomBox itself or a new pure blend is made, the primary challenge is still packaging large web applications for Debian. In my opinion, it is better to not invest effort into building another web application like FreedomBox. Instead, reuse the parts which FreedomBox got right and put more efforts into bringing more server applications into Debian. 1. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FreedomBox_for_Communities 2. https://freedombox.org/cloud/ -- Regards, Joseph Nuthalapati
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