| | 1 | ================= |
| | 2 | GNU MediaGoblin |
| | 3 | ================= |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | What is GNU MediaGoblin |
| | 6 | ======================= |
| | 7 | |
| | 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. |
| | 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 |
| | 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! |
| | 32 | |
| | 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 | |
| | 47 | See `Get Involved <http://mediagoblin.org/join/>`_ on the website.. |
| | 48 | |
| | 49 | |
| | 50 | How is GNU MediaGoblin licensed? |
| | 51 | ================================ |
| | 52 | |
| | 53 | GNU MediaGoblin software is released under an AGPLv3 license. |
| | 54 | |
| | 55 | See the ``COPYING`` file in the source for details. |
| | 56 | |
| | 57 | |
| | 58 | Is this an official GNU Project? What does that mean? |
| | 59 | ====================================================== |
| | 60 | |
| | 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/>`. |
| | 64 | |
| | 65 | Please feel free to contact us with further questions! |
| | 66 | |
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