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Revision as of 16:20, 19 May 2009
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.
Getting Started
One of the purposes of the Groups Wiki is to connect free software supporters with each other.
You can create a profile and add yourself to the appropriate regional group page (region, country, province/state, & city). Please feel free to divide up these regions into smaller ones as the lists grow, to add new ways of organizing people, and new ideas for free software campaigns and issues that we should all be acting on.
Things to do
- Upload texts about free software you've written that others might find useful.
- List free software events in your area on this wiki.
- Help with priority projects.
- Read and improve our Activism Guide for effective action.
- Help draft the foundational documents for the LibrePlanet project.
- Start a LibrePlanet group in your area.
- If you are organizing a free software event, or attending an event at which you can distribute materials about free software, please, write to the FSF to request materials at info@fsf.org
Regions
- Africa
- Asia
- Australasia
- Europe
- Central America
- North America
- South America
- Caribbean
- Oceania
- South Atlantic
- Antarctica
- Web Only
The LibrePlanet Project
- Join us for more discussion of this project on the Libre Planet mailing list
- Microblogging at identi.ca
- IRC in the #libreplanet channel on the Freenode IRC network
History
This wiki was started 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.