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1 | ================= |
| 2 | GNU MediaGoblin | |
| 3 | ================= | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | What is GNU MediaGoblin | |
| 6 | ======================= | |
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8 | Three years ago (2008), a number of free software luminaries got |
| 9 | together at the FSF office to answer the question, "What should | |
| 10 | software freedom look like on the participatory web?" Those thinkers | |
| 11 | included Richard Stallman---founder of the free software movement and | |
| 12 | instigator of the GNU project, Evan Prodromou---the driving force | |
| 13 | behind Status.net, a highly sucessful federated micro-blogging | |
| 14 | service, and FIXME. | |
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15 | |
| 16 | Since that time Identi.ca and Libre.fm have answered the | |
| 17 | freedom-loving web-user's need for micro-blogging and music sharing. | |
| 18 | Now, GNU MediaGoblin is building a format for users to share photos. | |
| 19 | Later versions of MediaGoblin will include support for video and other | |
| 20 | media as well as tools to encourage collaboration on media projects. | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | ||
| 23 | Why are we doing this? | |
| 24 | ====================== | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | Centralization and proprietization of media on the internet is a | |
| 27 | serious problem and makes the web go from a system of extreme | |
| 28 | resilience to a system of frightening fragility. We believe people | |
| 5e593201 | 29 | should be able to own their data and that means someone has to build |
| 49fa1a00 | 30 | the tools to make it possible. We decided that in this case, that |
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31 | someone would be us! |
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| 33 | ||
| 34 | Who are you? | |
| 35 | ============ | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | Free software activists and folks who have worked on a variety of | |
| 38 | other projects like Libre.fm, GNU Social, Status.net, Miro, Miro | |
| 39 | Community, OpenHatch and other projects as well. We're admirers and | |
| 40 | contributors. We're writers and painters. We're friendly and | |
| 41 | dedicated to computer user freedom. | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | ||
| 44 | How can I participate? | |
| 45 | ====================== | |
| 46 | ||
| 9610848c | 47 | See `Get Involved <http://mediagoblin.org/join/>`_ on the website.. |
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48 | |
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50 | How is GNU MediaGoblin licensed? |
| 51 | ================================ | |
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53 | GNU MediaGoblin software is released under an AGPLv3 license. |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | See the ``COPYING`` file in the source for details. | |
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| 58 | Is this an official GNU Project? What does that mean? | |
| 59 | ====================================================== | |
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| 61 | We are! It means that we meet the GNU Project's rigourous standards | |
| 62 | for free software. To find out more about what that means, check out | |
| 8842779b | 63 | `the GNU site <http://gnu.org/>`_. |
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64 | |
| 65 | Please feel free to contact us with further questions! | |
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