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<p><font face="Arial">Hello!</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">Lots of good news to share today:<br>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="+1"><b><font size="+2">Sales
have launched!</font></b></font></p>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial">The big day is finally here:
sales of the first commercially available FreedomBox have
launched!<br>
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The Pioneer Edition FreedomBox Home Server Kits can be purchased
here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK/">https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK/</a><br>
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The product is being sold by Olimex, a company which specializes
in Open Source Hardware. The product includes everything you
need to host your own home server: pocket-sized server hardware,
an SD card with the FreedomBox system pre-installed, and a
backup battery which can power the hardware for 4-5 hours in
case of outages. It sells for €82 and ships globally.<br>
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FreedomBox has succeeded in growing a thriving software
ecosystem. But you wanted an easy way to buy a FreedomBox, and
we delivered. The FreedomBox Foundation is proud to partner with
Olimex, a well respected company in the world of free and open
source software. The word "Pioneer" was included in the name of
these kits in order to emphasize the leadership required to run
a FreedomBox in 2019. Users will be pioneers both because they
have the initiative to define this new frontier and because
their feedback will make FreedomBox better for its next
generation of users.</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial">For the full story, check out
our press release:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://freedomboxfoundation.org/news/launching_sales/">https://freedomboxfoundation.org/news/launching_sales/</a><br>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="+1"><b><font size="+2">Try
Before You Buy</font></b></font></p>
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<font face="Arial">In anticipation of the launch of sales, the
FreedomBox team recently created a live demo of FreedomBox.
Anyone can demo the software to learn what they'll be getting in
the product. Test out our demo here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://freedombox.org/demo/">https://freedombox.org/demo/</a></font></div>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="+1"><b><font size="+2">Free
Technical Support</font></b></font></p>
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<font face="Arial"><font face="Arial">Last month, we launched a
new support forum where our users will get free technical
support for our software. Check out our support forum here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://discuss.freedombox.org/">https://discuss.freedombox.org/</a></font></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial">In
anticipation of this product launch, we even created a special
category on our forum where pioneers can get support and see
the questions that other pioneers have asked:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://discuss.freedombox.org/c/pioneer-support">https://discuss.freedombox.org/c/pioneer-support</a><br>
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<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="+1"><b><font size="+2">What
Can You Do To Help?</font></b></font><font face="Arial"><br>
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<font face="Arial">If you want to help make this product launch a
success, share this news with anyone who might be interested!
Forward this email to your friends and family. Talk about
Olimex's product on social media using #FreedomBox and
#BeAPioneer. And share the posts by our account,
@FreedomBoxFndn, on Mastodon and Twitter (links at the bottom of
this email)<br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial">You can also share our press
release via email and social media: </font><font face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://freedomboxfoundation.org/news/launching_sales/">https://freedomboxfoundation.org/news/launching_sales/</a></font><br>
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<font face="Arial"><font face="Arial" size="+1"><b><font size="+2">Thanks
for Joining Us On This Journey!</font></b></font></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial">It has been a long, worthy
journey to get to this point! FreedomBox was born in 2010, when
Eben Moglen, Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, delivered
a speech called “Freedom in the Cloud” in which he made a
prescient claim: “Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable
record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody
else his age.” </font><br>
<font face="Arial">Professor Moglen predicted the damage that
would be done by Facebook; and in his next breath, he conceived
of an effort to create an alternative Internet: FreedomBox. Now,
nine years later, FreedomBox will be delivered to doorsteps just
as people realize that they need it.</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial">Be a pioneer. </font><font
face="Arial">Buy your FreedomBox today!<br>
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</font> <font face="Arial" size="+1">Until next time,</font><font
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</font> <font face="Arial"><i> </i><i><font size="+1">Danny
Haidar</font></i></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><i><font size="+1">Vice-President
for Product & Development<br>
FreedomBox Foundation</font></i></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><i><font size="+1">P.S. If you
haven't already, make sure you subscribe to the FreedomBox
Foundation's new mailing list:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://freedomboxfoundation.org/contact/">https://freedomboxfoundation.org/contact/</a><br>
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