FreOne¶
Introduction¶
The FreOne Foundation aims to support enterprising people who are currently experiencing hard times due to sub-optimal life circumstances. The foundations approach is project oriented. At the moment the foundation is conducting pilot projects in Kenya and Uganda.
Together we explore new ways, gain experience, collect and share information with one goal in mind: to enable those involved to earn a living independently.
The foundation provides funds, equipment, knowledge and an internet based backbone aimed at working together remotely.
Projects¶
The graphic above shows our current activities and projects. The page you are currently viewing provides some background information and context of the FreOne Foundation.
Project Welcome¶
New beneficiaries (from now on called participants) of the foundation will need an introduction and some training to become accustomed to the way FreOne operates.
Project Backbone¶
Every participant receives a laptop equipped with a dedicated business operating system, called the Backbone. Participants take notes of their progress, once in a while the notebooks are synchronized with each other in order to built a common knowledgebase of our findings.
Project Python¶
Python is the programming language FreOne uses to perform administrative tasks and to provide input for the Backbone. Participants are welcome to study this versatile language and will receive training if they want to learn the basics of Python.
Project Comm¶
The communication module of the Backbone enables participants to store notes such as local addresses. This kind of data is kept personal and not shared during the synchronization process. So in fact it’s about local communication :)
Project Farm¶
Aimed to improve the chance that small scale farming activities actually will generate some profit. This is FreOnes most ambitious project. There are a lot of hurdles to be taken in order to become a successful farmer.
Project Green¶
Revolves around durability and the reuse of materials and goods that are normally thrown away thoughtlessly such as packaging materials.
Project Design¶
Identification and development of niche opportunities to produce all kinds of handy goods suitable for local fabrication.
Project Book¶
Development of written as well as multimedia content such as books. At the moment FreOne collects local recipes with the intention to bundle them in a cookery book some day.
Project Art¶
Collection of art, can be local as well as the output from for example the ITLS project (see below).
Project ITLS¶
It’s The Light Silly. Aimed at improving photography skills with the intention to produce “wall worthy” images. This project has its own website. The ITLS website demonstrates the way FreOne works: making progress one step at a time, resulting in opportunities to generate revenue along the way.
The ITLS content is still under construction, will be published soon :)
Project Revenue¶
Discussion and thoughts about ways to generate revenue.
Project School¶
A thriving economy will need educated people. Occasionally FreOne will provide funding for children and juveniles in order to enable them to get proper education.
Navigation around this site¶
Note
Not all sister sites such as the ITLS project and the webshop are published yet, they will become visible soon.
Beneath the Navigation entry at the left menu bar you will find some fixed hyperlinks to FreOnes sister sites. Currently you are at the FreOne page.
The others are:
ITLS Home: the startpage of the photo blog.
Webshop: provides the opportunity to buy items discussed on this site and to donate to the Foundation.
More lengthy posts does contain paragraph headers. When present those headers will be shown as hyperlinks in the Table of Contents section.
Recent Posts: as the name suggests the most recent posts :)
Tags: a wordcloud of the tags that are associated with a page. Bigger tags are more frequently present then the smaller ones.
Archives: an overview of the posts by year. A click on the word Archives will show a list containing all the posts.
Quick search: allows you to search for keywords.
The annotation bar
At the upper right of each page are three buttons located that can be used to annotate a page. A click on the < button will expand the annotation bar. More help regarding annotations is available under the question mark in that sidebar. Annotations are stored in the cloud by the open source Hypothes.is platform.
Also:
At the right side of every paragraph header is an option to fixate the page on that header. The permalink is visible in the address bar of the browser as well, so it can be bookmarked with ease. Refreshing a page will return the page to this permalink.
Privacy Statement¶
Privacy is king!
FreOne does respect privacy a lot. In short: no client nor user data is collected, shared or published in any form without explicit approval of the person(s) involved, period.
This site nor any other site in the FreOne realm does use tracking techniques like cookies, fingerprinting and the like.
This privacy statement applies to the FreOne.org domain itself, of course we have no control over the sites we link to, this includes the annotation functionality.
Our webshop FreOne.biz
In regard to cookies there is one exception: the FreOne webshop does use cookies, it seems it’s simply not possible to use professional payservices that don’t make use of them.
The webshop is still under construction, will be published soon :)
