Group: LibrePlanet Washington

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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

Join us

To become a member of the LibrePlanet Washington Chapter, please

  • Join our team list by modifying this page to include your name or by adding Groups=LibrePlanet_Washington to your profile page template.
  • Participate!

Meetings

  • We have semi-regular Software Freedom dinners in Seattle, WA.

Activities

  • Suggest some!

Contact

  • Currently the best way to reach us is by posting to the Software Freedom Seattle group on identi.ca:

http://identi.ca/group/sfs

Members

LibrePlanet Washington
Note WA group for Free Software Users and Activists
Region North America
Area United States of America
Mailing list http://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-us-wa
Available language(s) English
Contact Thane Williams
Members 1
Current status Active
Members
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