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   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 means someone has to build
  30 the tools to make it possible.  We decided 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?
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  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