title: Obsido OS status: recruiting oneLiner: A Linux distribution for school Chromebooks that strips out the attention-harvesting layer. needs: [backend, funding]
What we're building
Obsido OS replaces the software on school-issued Intel Chromebooks with a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed around a different default: no notifications, strong content filtering, and three distinct surfaces for the kid, the parent, and the teacher. The goal is not to be punitive — it's to remove the parts of the device whose business model is the kid's attention.
Where we are
We're in Phase 0 of a long roadmap — hardware validation, the policy validator, and a clickable demo of the three-role UX. Web filtering is designed in three independent layers (DNS, an HTTPS-MitM proxy with a system-trusted CA, and a browser WebExtension) so that bypassing any one still leaves two. There is no bootable image yet; we're working toward one.
What you'd do
If you join as a backend contributor, the work spans the focus daemon, the policy daemon, finishing the Rust web-filter proxy, and the control-plane API for school deployments. If you can fund this work, that's also what we need — the project has a clear FERPA legal-review gate before pilot deployments, and a co-maintainer slot we want to fill before the end of the current phase.