LibrePlanet: About/Mission Statement
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Mission Statement
Our mission: to further free software for a free society.
The LibrePlanet project exists to build a global network of activists working together to further the ideals of software freedom and related issues as necessary means for a free society.
What we do
Our primary activity is organizing and operating local teams, all contributing to the advancement of a free society by promoting free software. These teams are organized by geographical region and open to anyone who would like to get involved. Smaller sub-teams may exist for more specific reasons or tasks as well. While our main focus is on local groups, LibrePlanet is also an organizing space for global teams and other projects. LibrePlanet will work to provide the infrastructure, necessary tools and resources, to help free software proponents organize into teams working together to advocate and contribute to free software.
Motivation
Free software is paramount for a free society. As computers play ever-increasingly integral roles in more and more aspects of our lives, the need for software freedom to guarantees users' control over their own computing is critical. The software which runs on our computers defines how we experience and interact with the world, and we must ensure that users have the freedom and control to determine how we connect and communicate with one another. Through transparency and openness derived from a philosophy advocating four essential freedoms, the free software movement has become one of the most successful social movements in recent history. Providing the tools and platforms which enables a global community to work effectively for social good. Technology can either be used to control us or, if we have control over our own technology, to empower us. Free software ensures that our computing serves us.
LibrePlanet is a project intent on removing restrictive software laws and practices, educating the public to the dangers of restrictive legislation by providing a platform to act and defend their freedom, and giving them the collective power to change their society through coordinated action.
History
This project began during the 2006 FSF Associate Member Meeting to help organize ways to bring free software as a movement "into the mainstream." We started by organizing the FSF members at the 2006 meeting into groups based on geography. They then brainstormed ideas for how to organize people around issues central to the free software movement, and posted those ideas on a wiki page titled after their region. You can read those ideas on the pages linked to from the 2006 Member Meeting page.
