Group: LibrePlanet Washington
About us
The LibrePlanet Washington Team is a group of volunteers and activists organized around furthering the ideals of free software and related issues concerning digital rights as necessary means for a free society. We operate in accordance with the LibrePlanet Mission Statement and Code of Conduct.
This group is working towards a free society through free software, but we are not just a GNU+Linux User Group. We may promote any software that respects the freedom of its users. We recognize that some people choose to make compromises, temporary or otherwise, with proprietary software, and some who may not always say GNU+Linux, or "free software" instead of "open source", and we welcome those people to join us and discuss their thoughts, but as a LibrePlanet team, we frame terms accordingly. We are open to people of all levels of interest in free software and welcome new participants. We are all united in the fight for software freedom as an important and necessary means for the prospect of a free society.
The vision for this group is one in which we can meet about free software, both online with IRC, and occasionally face to face. Washington is a state that has many information technology professionals. Hopefully this group can help us all learn from each other and advance the fields of software engineering, system administration, and other types of engineering, all with free software.
Goals
- Educate
- Inform the public about free software
- Advocate
- Promote free software tools through projects, campaigns, and events
- Supply
- Provide materials and increase the availability of free software
- Support
- Offer local help getting and using free software
- Unite
- Bridge connections between free software activists and users
Meetings
We have semi-regular Software Freedom dinners in Seattle, WA on the third Saturday of each month. When? Contact the list about the date for the next one; it varies a lot. Meetings are always at 5pm.
Where? The Elysian Brewing Company at 1221 E Pike St on Capitol Hill
What? Join the mailing list to suggest activities!
Projects
Seattle Neighborhood Networks Project
Contact
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC): #libreplanet-wa on Libera.Chat. We monitor this channel daily.
- LibrePlanet Washington Mailing List: http://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-us-wa.
Join
| 1. Support the Free Software Foundation (FSF) with a paid membership or create a non-member account at no cost. 2. Log in to https://libreplanet.org using your FSF account. 3. Use the Template:Profile_Page as a template to create your user profile. 4. Add the LibrePlanet Washington Badge to your user profile by adding {{user WA}} to the bottom of your user profile (example: mointerop).
Your username will also be automatically included in the LibrePlanet Washington Members list (see below) once the LibrePlanet Washington Badge has been added to your user profile.
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| Members |
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| Jself |
| LibrePlanet Washington |
| Mointerop |
| Strugee |
Resources
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Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF)
- Defend free speech. Fight surveillance. Support innovation. TAKE ACTION!
- Join your local Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA) group: DC253 (Tacoma, WA)
- Tips, tools and how-tos for safer online communications: Surveillance Self-Defense Guide
- Attend the annual Seattle GNU/Linux conference (SeaGL). SeaGL is free (as in money) to attend and registration is not required. You can attend in-person or remote.
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Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
- Don't know how to use IRC? click here, enter a username of your choice, and type #libreplanet-wa into channel box and you will be connected!
- What is IRC and how does it work?
- IRC client recommendation: Halloy
- Having trouble registering your nickname on your IRC client? See Libera.Chat Nickname Registration
- Having trouble editing this page, your user profile, etc.? LibrePlanet Wiki Helpers Page
- Why Open Source misses the point of Free/Libre Software
This page was last updated December 2024
| Region | North America |
|---|---|
| Area | United States of America |
| Mailing list | LibrePlanet Washington Mailing List |
| Website | LibrePlanet_Washington |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Contact | Alex Jordan |
| Members | 4 |
| Description | Washington State group for Free Software Users and Activists |
| Current status | Active |
