In short; It's a platform that started after Eben Moglen's talk "Freedom in the Cloud" - to establish a platform for running a decentralized network of Free Software social/personal services. It happened at the same time that so called "plug computers" (ie. small, somewhat cheap and decent System-on-Chip computers (think Raspberry Pi but with casing)).
The thought was and is (but I'm not all too up to date on the project) was to offer software and hardware in a easy package for whoever to setup easily and get started with.
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I would like to suggest taking a look at the "Freedom Box" project, their foundation homepage is at http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/ but there's also some stuff at https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
In short; It's a platform that started after Eben Moglen's talk "Freedom in the Cloud" - to establish a platform for running a decentralized network of Free Software social/personal services. It happened at the same time that so called "plug computers" (ie. small, somewhat cheap and decent System-on-Chip computers (think Raspberry Pi but with casing)).
The thought was and is (but I'm not all too up to date on the project) was to offer software and hardware in a easy package for whoever to setup easily and get started with.