From ac25f1f5bea14432d63c681316d96787d83d73b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sunil Mohan Adapa FreedomBox is a community project to develop, design and promote
+personal servers running free software for private, personal
+communications. It is a networking appliance designed to allow
+interfacing with the rest of the Internet under conditions of
+protected privacy and data security. It hosts applications such as
+blog, wiki, website, social network, email, web proxy and a Tor relay
+on a device that can replace your Wi-Fi router so that your data stays
+with you. We live in a world where our use of the network is mediated by
-those who often do not have our best interests at heart. By building
+those who often do not have our best interests at heart. By building
software that does not rely on a central service, we can regain
-control and privacy. By keeping our data in our homes, we gain useful
-legal protections over it. By giving back power to the users over
+control and privacy. By keeping our data in our homes, we gain useful
+legal protections over it. By giving back power to the users over
their networks and machines, we are returning the Internet to its
intended peer-to-peer architecture. In order to bring about the new network order, it is
-paramount that it is easy to convert to it. The hardware it
-runs on must be cheap. The software it runs on must be easy to
-install and administrate by anybody. It must be easy to
-transition from existing services. There are a number of projects working to realize a future of
-distributed services; we aim to bring them all together in a
+distributed services; FreedomBox aims to bring them all together in a
convenient package. For more information about the FreedomBox project, see the
-Debian Wiki.
+