31 Jul 2014
This year I was able to sponsor with hardware and attend the PirateBoxCamp 2014 like last year, beside the important fact that the camp took place in Lille(FR) - LaCoroutine. LaCoroutine is a Co-Working space and offered us the location and some sort of catering.
Instead of having a bunch of talks we stripped down the agend to only a few overview and update talks. The team and the audience was happy to have several workgroups already on the first day hacking, testing and developing ideas around the PirateBox.
At the end of sunday, we had around 25 visitors sitting together and discuss about social implications of projects like PirateBox.
Special thanks to all organisators and LaCorouting to be our host.
Pictures are licenced under CC-3.0 share alike, taken from piratebox.cc
30 Apr 2014
This year the Knight Foundation decided to grant projects around the topic “Libraries & Technology” and one of the picked is LibraryBox. Beside the LibraryBox project, another project, called Dewey, is funded that uses PirateBox/LibraryBox in the background.
In my opinion it is amazing how the LibraryBox-project develops, which is mostly the result of a very consequent and persistent work of Jason Griffey.
With this grant the LibraryBox project targets the release version 2.1 including the following new features:
- Multi-language support of the GUI
- Clean and easier upgrade path
- More responsive design at the directory listing
- RaspberryPi support
I’m glad to support Jason with some development work to get the version 2.1 ready to run.
The logo aboves’ copyright © 2000-20011, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
01 Dec 2013
Last month I visited an open source conference named “FSCONS”. The name is short for “Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit” and it took place in Göteborg from November 8-10.
I gave a talk about the PirateBox project and received some nice feedback about the project..
As well, I visited interesting talks and discussions about other free software like owncloud. The owncloud talk was given by the founder of the project (Frank Karlitschek).
And later, I was able to get a sneak preview of the mailpile software which was funded with indigogo.
It was a totally mind opening event. Thank you FSCONS team!
01 Aug 2013
We are proud to be part of the PirateBox community. We sponsored five TP-Link MR3020 and USB-Sticks that the audience was able to build their own PirateBox.
One of our visitors and community members created that awesome video about the camp.
PirateboxCamp 2013 - Berlin from Augustin Delaporte on Vimeo.
More pictures can be found on PirateBox.cc - Camp pictures.
Pictures are licenced under CC-3.0 share alike, taken from piratebox.cc
31 Jul 2013
A friend of me, Jason Griffey, created a very successful Kickstarter campain to fund further development of his project called LibraryBox.
LibraryBox is a //less provocative// fork of the PirateBox project, that does not allow uploads to the device. Jason’s roots are libraries and he promotes the devices as a utility to spread free eBooks or other material.
Learn more about the use cases of the LibraryBox project.
The logo above is licenced under Creative Commons Licensed NC-BY by Jason Griffey
