What is LibrePlanet?
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The LibrePlanet project is a global network of free software activists organized into teams working together to help further the ideals of software freedom by advocating and contributing to free software.
The main activity of LibrePlanet is hosting regional teams that operate locally in accordance with the project mission statement. One example is the Massachusetts Team which you are welcome to join if you are in the area, or check your regional page to see if there another one near you. Local teams are just getting started on LibrePlanet so you may want to start your own.
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Each month, we feature an interesting resource, group, or project in-progress on the wiki.
This month, we are featuring A listing of free software extensions for OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice. OpenOffice.org is free software, and an important contribution to the free software community. However, the program offers the user a library of extensions, and some of them are proprietary. Distributing OpenOffice.org in the usual way has the effect of offering users the nonfree extensions too. This is the start of an all-free-software list of extensions for both OpenOffice.org. LibreOffice uses this extension library by default, so it doesn't have the problem with recommending nonfree add-ons.
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Project history
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The LibrePlanet 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.
Please remember that this wiki is focused on free software, not open source. Also be mindful of the power of words and the importance of framing the issues we discuss and work on in the best possible terms.
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Join the project
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Get involved!
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Please help LibrePlanet spread freedom!
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Let's start something!
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LibrePlanet is still getting off the ground and is under heavy construction at the moment! Your help organizing this wiki is greatly appreciated. We're using Semantic MediaWiki properties mainly, rather than categories, so please read the introduction if you haven't used it before. |
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The globe in the LibrePlanet logo is by http://erioll.blogspot.com/ and modified by http://francoiacomella.org
