[Chapter-delegates] ISOC-NY Video: FreedomBox Hackfest February 18 2012

[Joly MacFie]

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 On February 18 2012 the Internet Society's New York Chapter (ISOC-NY)
participated in the first ever FreedomBox
Hackfest<http://freedomboxfoundation.org/>,
held at the Columbia School of Law in New York City. The
FreedomBox<http://freedomboxfoundation.org/doc/flyer.pdf>FreedomBox is
an initiative "to create a network of personal servers to
protect privacy during daily life, maintain beachheads of free network
access during times of political instability, and open lines of
communication during natural disasters." The project is a direct
consequence of the "Freedom in the Cloud <http://isoc-ny.org/?p=1338>" talk
that Eben Moglen gave two years earlier, almost to the day,  for ISOC-NY.

One foundational issue is the question of how the FreedomBoxes will
identify themselves, discover their peers, and know which ones to trust. In
our our first video we see a pair of presentations, one by Nic Daley,
another by Isaac Wilder, that explore the problem.

youtube <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTmnk27g9s&feature=player_embedded>|
ogv<http://punkcast.com/2004/2004-01/2004-01_isoc-ny_freedombox_hackfest.ogv>
 | ogg<http://punkcast.com/2004/2004-01/2004-01_isoc-ny_freedombox_hackfest.ogg>
 | mp3<http://punkcast.com/2004/2004-01/2004-01_isoc-ny_freedombox_hackfest.mp3>
 | stills <http://punkcast.com/2004/2004-01/>


 ISOC-NY President David Solomonoff took the opportunity to sit down for an
with FreedomBox Executive Director James Vasile to get some background on
the project.

youtube <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbSB4Ba7Ck&feature=player_embedded>|
ogv<http://punkcast.com/2004/2004-02/2004-02_isoc-ny_freedombox_james_vasile.ogv>
 | ogg<http://punkcast.com/2004/2004-02/2004-02_isoc-ny_freedombox_james_vasile.ogg>
 | mp3<http://punkcast.com/2004/2004-02/2004-02_isoc-ny_freedombox_james_vasile.mp3>
 | stills <http://punkcast.com/2004/2004-02/>


 A contingent from the The Free Network
Foundation<http://freenetworkfoundation.org/> was
present at the hackfest and, indeed, a prototype of their “Freedom
Tower<http://mashable.com/2011/11/14/how-occupy-wall-street-is-building-its-own-internet-video/>”
was in operation to provide participants with connectivity. An FNF based
local mesh network, combined with FreedomBox distribution, can be the
foundation of powerful community-based autonomous systems. David Solomonoff
talked to Isaac Wilder and Marcus Eagan to find out more about the
organization, and their forthcoming pilot project in Detroit.

youtube <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQTtRBtTZ3I&feature=player_embedded>|
ogv<http://punkcast.com/2004/2004-03/2004-03_isoc-ny_free_network_foundation.ogv>
 | ogg<http://punkcast.com/2004/2004-03/2004-03_isoc-ny_free_network_foundation.ogg>
 | mp3<http://punkcast.com/2004/2004-03/2004-03_isoc-ny_free_network_foundation.mp3>
 | stills <http://punkcast.com/2004/2004-03/>

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Joly MacFie  218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast

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