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<p style="width: 900px; line-height: 45px; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">This is the LibrePlanet mission statement. We ask all of our members to abide by the goals of the project.</p>

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<h1><span>LibrePlanet Mission Statement </span></h1>
<p>To indicate your support for and agreement to this mission statement,
you can add a line saying you agree to your user page.
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<a name="Mission" id="Mission"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Mission </span></h2>
<p>The mission of the LibrePlanet project is to build a global network of local
groups, each of which is working diligently, professionally, and competently to
raise awareness of free software and related issues as questions of ethics and
freedom.
</p><p>So that the name LibrePlanet is strongly associated with a clear goal,
and so that individual groups can cooperate and collaborate effectively,
we ask that all individuals and groups agree with this set of founding
principles.
</p>
<a name="Methods" id="Methods"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Methods </span></h2>

<a name="Emphasis" id="Emphasis"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Emphasis </span></h3>
<p>LibrePlanet groups are about raising the profile of freedom and ethical
concerns. They aren't primarily about promoting the technical advantages of
free software like GNU/Linux. To this end, they refer to the operating system
as GNU/Linux, not Linux. They are clear about the distinction between free
software and open source, and prefer the term free software.
</p><p>LibrePlanet is a movement intent on removing software restrictive laws and
practices, educating the public to the dangers of restrictive legislation by
providing a platform to act and defend their freedom, and giving them the
collective power to change their society through coordinated action.
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<a name="Software_advocacy" id="Software_advocacy"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Software advocacy </span></h3>
<p>When it comes to advocacy through promoting software, groups should only
promote operating system distributions that are on the list of
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions" class="external text" title="http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions" rel="nofollow">fully free distributions</a>, and individual programs that are distributed under
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html" class="external text" title="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html" rel="nofollow">free software licenses</a>.
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<a name="Fundraising" id="Fundraising"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Fundraising </span></h3>
<p>Groups that want to help support the LibrePlanet network and the other work of
the FSF often encourage their members or attendees at their events to
<a href="http://donate.fsf.org" class="external text" title="http://donate.fsf.org" rel="nofollow">donate to the FSF</a>. They pass out FSF membership sign-up
cards and collect contributions which they then forward directly to the FSF.
</p><p>Groups are of course also welcome to fundraise for themselves. They
should be clear about where the money is going. They should not give the
impression that money they are raising is going to the Free Software
Foundation, the GNU Project, or LibrePlanet unless that is actually the
case.
</p>
<a name="Advertising" id="Advertising"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Advertising </span></h3>
<p>Sites should not have advertising for proprietary software on their
pages. This means that having things like Google Ads will require
filters.
</p>
<a name="Resources" id="Resources"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Resources </span></h3>

<p>LibrePlanet will strive to provide all the necessary resources to create and
operate a group. Groups can certainly also develop and host their own
resources, but since our mission is to create a free world, they should not
depend on proprietary resources.
</p>
<a name="Organization" id="Organization"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Organization </span></h3>
<p>If you need to step down from a role you have in your group, especially
if you are the official group contact, please do so in a way that
minimizes impact on the group. We know that people want to sometimes
move on and do different things -- if you give us some notice that
you'll be leaving your role, we can help find a new contact for the
group.
</p>
<a name="Specific_resources" id="Specific_resources"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Specific resources </span></h2>
<a name="IRC" id="IRC"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline"> IRC </span></h3>
<p style="padding-bottom: 100px;"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/server/irc-rules.html" class="external free" title="http://www.gnu.org/server/irc-rules.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.gnu.org/server/irc-rules.html</a>
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<p id="mission-signup"><a href="http://groups.fsf.org/wiki?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup">I support the mission of LibrePlanet</a></p>
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