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2 | GNU MediaGoblin | |
3 | ================= | |
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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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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. | |
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23 | Why are we doing this? | |
24 | ====================== | |
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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 | |
29 | should be able to own their data and that measn someone has to build | |
30 | the tools to make it possible. We decide that in this case, that | |
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. | |
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44 | How can I participate? | |
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9610848c | 47 | See `Get Involved <http://mediagoblin.org/join/>`_ on the website.. |
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50 | How is GNU MediaGoblin licensed? |
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53 | GNU MediaGoblin software is released under an AGPLv3 license. |
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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 | |
63 | `the GNU site <http://gnu.org/>`. | |
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65 | Please feel free to contact us with further questions! | |
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