FirstBrick

The first brick to your success
FirstBrick will be the first and essential step every small enterprises and project igniters should take : all the tools you MUST have in a simple, reliable and energy-efficient device.
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Private

Don't trust the cloud? Create your own! Just like in the Cloud, with FirstBrick you can access your data from anywhere, except it is stored locally, under your control and only you decide who can access to it.

Simple

Your job should matter more than the tool you use. Follow the steps : plug it, choose your collaborators, give the project settings and you're good to go !

Green

Think the planet needs a little hand? FirstBrick will consume only a few watts. It is ten times less than a classic computer ! And, by the way, less energy wasted is more money in your pockets…

Comprehensive

FirstBrick includes all the services you regularly use, from the most general (emails, file sharing…) to the most specific (versionning, project management, customer relationship, accounting…)

Efficient

We want to help you save time so that you can focus on developing your projects. Thus, each of the included services does one thing and does it well. Not only that, but we also made all these services interoperable so that each action is done only once and is visible everywhere (ex: creating a project for both ERP, project management, etc.).

Secure

Because it's about your data you should have the most robust services. In FirstBrick, all your data are backed up either locally or on a remote service, and software is automatically kept up-to-date !

OpenSource

FirstBrick is 100% compliant with your freedom. We made the best Libre and OpenSource Software available for you, so you can truly adjust the product according to your needs… and get help from the community as well as from our extensive support team !

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Our roadmap

At first, we will build the system and integrate it in within existing but probably proprietary low-power devices. Today there are no free hardware powerful enough to what we propose.

Ultimately, we wish to conceive FirstBrick as 100% Libre and OpenHardware, as much on the software side than on electronics and design.

But conceiving hardware is very expensive… To achieve this next goal, we need to fund this project with at least 50 000 €. You can help us !

About the team

We are a team of young engineers who founded Gnuside, a small company specialized in software development, consulting and training in Libre and OpenSource computing. Our domains are network technologies, embedded systems and innovating uses.

Glenn Rolland

Computing engineer, passionate about distributed systems, networks, innovating uses of technology, poetry, collaborative economy, chaos and changing the world ;-)

Roland Laurès

Computing engineer, specialist of embedded and energy efficient systems, passionate about tele-transmission, low-power sensors and intelligent networks.

Sebastian Schawohl

Bearded web engineer, playing with standards, new technologies and their innovating uses, music addict and t-shirt collector.

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