Actually, it has a lot to do with hardware. They have a lot of support from the Debian community, but they don't seem to have any focused support from the hardware community.
>From what I've been able to gather by studying the project and the mailing list, they are fractured on exactly how go about implementing their idea in hardware. I think they just use the plug computers as an example, in lieu of other hardware examples (such as the NanoNote). They need many things that are not incorporated in plug computers like mesh networking. Just thought people in this community would be interested in hearing about the existence of this other community. Cheers! Chris Trouther http://www.thesolarpowerexpert.com -----Original Message----- From: Sebastien Bourdeauducq [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 7:28 AM To: English "Qi Hardware mailing list - support, developers, use cases andfun Subject: Re: FreedomBox On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 06:56 -0800, Chris Troutner wrote: > Have you heard of the FreedomBox? Check it out: > > > > http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ > "Freedom Box is the name we give to a personal server running a free software operating system, with free applications designed to create and preserve personal privacy. Freedom Box software is particularly tailored to run in "plug servers," which are compact computers that are no larger than power adapters for electronic appliances." "Freedom Box software is built to run on hardware that already exists," "Taken together, these appliances will afford people around the world options for communicating, publishing, and collaborating that will resist state intervention or disruption." ...as seen recently with Egyptian ISPs, but yeah, it's nice, but has little to do with hardware. S. _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
