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| | | === Learning Resources === |
| == Learning Resources == | |
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| Here are some links to improve your understanding of FreedomBox. | | Here are some links to improve your understanding of FreedomBox. |
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| 1. The legendary talk from which FreedomBox and Diaspora (federated social network) were born.<br/>
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vOF8VsUwbA | | * The legendary talk from which FreedomBox and Diaspora (federated social network) were born.<br/> https://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/ISOC-NY-Moglen-2010/ |
| | | * First public demonstration of FreedomBox.<br/> http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/sflc2015/04_freedombox.webm |
| 2. Sunil Mohan's first demonstration of FreedomBox.<br/>
| | * Digital Empowerment in Rural India - powered by FreedomBox <br/> https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/3cd45772-e177-4221-a66a-f8a796e0826c |
| http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/sflc2015/04_freedombox.webm | |
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| 3. An old blog post I wrote on how to install FreedomBox on a Raspberry Pi 2<br/>
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| https://njoseph.me/ikiwiki/blog/posts/you_don__8217__t_have_to_be_a_geek_to_setup_freedombox__33__/
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| Learn more at the [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox FreedomBox wiki]
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| == Contributing to FreedomBox ==
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| There are many ways of contributing to FreedomBox. Have your pick!
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| === Development ===
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| - Web application development (plinth)
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| - Making FreedomBox available on more hardware devices (freedom-maker)
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| - Android app development (android-app)
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| - Debian packaging for potential FreedomBox applications
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| - Creating Plinth apps for existing Debian applications
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| - Writing functional tests
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| - Language translations
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| - Write content for manual on the wiki or upload screenshots
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| - Translate manual content into your language
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| - Report bugs (salsa)
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| - Provide feedback on user experience
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| - Contribute UX designs and icons
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| - Contribute to the free software applications on FreedomBox
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| - Join Progress Calls and Hack Calls
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| - Identify new applications to be integrated into FreedomBox
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| === Community Engagement ===
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| - Setup a FreedomBox for your family members
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| - Volunteer for a village/college deployment
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| - Spread the message on social networks
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| - Improve community FreedomBox wiki
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| - Talk about FreedomBox at conferences
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| - Organize an Install Fest
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| - Write blogs on your experience with using FreedomBox
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| - Make a donation to the FreedomBox Foundation
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| - Create marketing material like posters and brochures
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| === Links ===
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| 1. FreedomBox Wiki https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
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| 2. FreedomBox Manual https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual
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| 3. Code repositories https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/
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| 4. Wish list of applications for FreedomBox https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud
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| == Tips and Tricks ==
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| === Software ===
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| * Matrix Synapse works for voice and video calls over LAN. It seems to be P2P. | |
| * Use [https://medium.com/@JosephKiran/replacing-cloud-based-to-do-apps-with-orgzly-and-syncthing-6a065419d61 Syncthing with Orgzly/Emacs] for writing lists.
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| * Use Boostnote with Syncthing for note-taking and lists if Orgzly seems too weird. Boostnote has Github-flavored markdown.
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| ==== Mediawiki ====
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| * Use MediaWiki [https://www.packetmischief.ca/2013/11/22/why-i-use-mediawiki-for-taking-notes/ for taking notes] as I'm doing right now and as a personal knowledge base.
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| * Since MediaWiki on FreedomBox doesn't have the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor Visual Editor extension] yet, use Wikipedia's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Sandbox Sandbox] to write your content in the Visual Editor, and after you're done, switch back to source code editing mode. You can then cut and paste the content into your MediaWiki instance.
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| ==== Tiny Tiny RSS ====
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| * Tiny Tiny RSS web UI is unpalatable for people used to things like Medium, but the [https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/tt-rss-android official Android app] is really good.
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| * Follow medium blogs using Tiny Tiny RSS without having to create an account.
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| * Follow activity feed from GitLab sites (e.g. Debian Salsa) using TT-RSS.
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| * Backup Tiny Tiny RSS feeds list (the opml file) to a Syncthing folder.
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| * Add feed subscriptions to [https://linuxmonk.ch/wordpress/index.php/2014/make-firefox-subscribe-rss-feeds-with-tinytinyrss/ Tiny Tiny RSS from Firefox].
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| * Use Privoxy for ad-blocking on all the Android devices on the Wi-Fi by setting it as a proxy.
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| === Hardware ===
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| * Make sure the device is getting adequate power supply (e.g. 2 Amp for a Raspberry Pi) or the performance will suffer.
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| * Your microSD card's speed impacts performance of your FreedomBox more than anything else. Make sure to buy something fast enough (UHS 1 or more).
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| * microSD cards are unreliable in general. Make sure to keep a ''dd'' backup of the entire SD card to another computer frequently.
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| ==== Raspberry Pi 3 Wi-Fi Access Point ====
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| Raspberry Pi 3 comes with a built-in Broadcom Wi-Fi module. The firmware for this is non-free and must be installed manually on FreedomBox.
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| Run the commands in the following steps on the FreedomBox using ssh.
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| # A file must be added to the firmware directory first.
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| <pre>cd /lib/firmware/brcm/ | |
| wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree/54bab3d6a6d43239c71d26464e6e10e5067ffea7/brcm80211/brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.txt
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| <li>Make sure that non-free is enabled in <code>/etc/apt/sources.list</code></li>
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| <li>Install the package <code>firmware-brcm80211</code></li>
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| <li><code>reboot</code> or run <code>rmmod brcmfmac && modprobe brcmfmac</code></li></ol>
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| After this, if you run the 'ip addr' command, you should see a new 'wlan0' interface come up.
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| Go to Plinth -> Networks -> Add WiFi, select device, give any name, set ssid, set infrastructure mode, ipv4 ''shared mode'' and set access point password.
| | All talks and presentations about FreedomBox are on a [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations wiki page]. |
| Then activate connection to get Wi-Fi access point from FreedomBox.
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| === Unsupported Software === | | ==== Blog Posts ==== |
| | * An old blog post I wrote on how to install FreedomBox on a Raspberry Pi 2<br/> https://njoseph.me/blog/posts/you-dont-have-to-be-a-geek-to-setup-freedombox/ |
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| ==== NextCloud ====
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| | Learn more at the [https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox FreedomBox Wiki] |
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| NextCloud is a Google Drive replacement that
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| * can update itself
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| * can play a lot of multimedia formats and display epub files
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| * has a simple project-tracking tool similar to Trello
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| * can be a personal content server with streaming capabilities
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| * can be used as a CalDAV/WebDAV server (contacts and calendar sync)
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| * can store your bookmarks
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| * has cool mobile apps
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