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 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 their networks and machines, we are returning the Internet to its intended peer-to-peer architecture.

There are a number of projects working to realize a future of distributed services; FreedomBox aims to bring them all together in a convenient package.

FreedomBox is free software, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License. The source code is available online at the FreedomBox repository. In addition, the source code of any Debian package can be obtained from the Debian Sources site, or by running "apt source package_name" in a terminal (using Cockpit or SSH).