About This CD

The Polippix CD was made by IT-Political Association of Denmark to demonstrate the possibilities of IT and the consequences of certain IT-related legislation. We hope that this CD will help legislators to better understand IT, and help citizens to avoid some of the negative consequences of overly restrictive and invasive legislation.

IT-Political Association of Denmark works with the subjects presented on this CD as well as many other IT-related subjects.

The Polippix CD was originally based on the Knoppix GNU/Linux distribution, but is now based on the Kubuntu GNU/Linux distribution.

All software on this CD is free, open source software. You may distribute it at no cost, and you can get the source code for all software from Kubuntu. For the specific licenses, please refer to the license for each peace of software.

All texts on this CD that are written by IT-Political Association of Denmark can be copied under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Denmark license. If you make any deriative work that you think might benefit the users of the CD, please let us now about it.

Further Development

All source code for the changes we made to Kubuntu to get this CD, can be found on www.polippix.org. Here you can build your own version of the Political CD, or you can prepare it together with IT-Political Association of Denmark. Of course, you can also just download the CD.

Get Involved

We always aim to make this CD better, and we would appreciate any help we can get:

Make A Version In Your Language

Translate our texts into your language. Research local legislation to find examples and facts from your country. Find out whether it is legal to distribute and use this CD where you live.

Decide whether there are IT-political issues in your country that are not represented on this CD. Is there any software that might help demonstrate those issues.

Improve Texts

Some of the texts still need work. Help proof-reading, or expand on some of the descriptions.

Configure Software

We have configured the software on this CD as much as we could. But there is still a long way until everything on the CD works perfectly. Help us create the optimum configuration for demonstration purposes. For example, try to find out how we could get encryption working in an email client.

Research Software And Technologies

Is there any free, open source software out there that should be on this CD - but isn't? How can we offer more technologies for privacy or other issues? For example, how can we use steganography?

Create Artwork

We can always use illustrations, splash screens, backgrounds, web design - and a logo for the polippix.org home page.

Come along!

Visit www.polippix.org if you want to help out, or just have ideas or suggestions.