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GNU MediaGoblin
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What is GNU MediaGoblin
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Three years ago, a number of free software luminaries got together at
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the FSF office to answer the question, "What should software freedom
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look like on the participatory web?" Those thinkers included Richard
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Stallman - founder of the free software movement and instigator of the
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GNU project, Evan Prodromou - the driving force behind Status.net, a
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highly sucessful federated micro-blogging service, and FIXME.
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Since that time Identi.ca and Libre.fm have answered the
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freedom-loving web-user's need for micro-blogging and music sharing.
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Now, GNU MediaGoblin is building a format for users to share photos.
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Later versions of MediaGoblin will include support for video and other
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media as well as tools to encourage collaboration on media projects.
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Why are we doing this?
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Centralization and proprietization of media on the internet is a
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serious problem and makes the web go from a system of extreme
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resilience to a system of frightening fragility. We believe people
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should be able to own their data and that measn someone has to build
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the tools to make it possible. We decide that in this case, that
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someone would be us!
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Who are you?
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Free software activists and folks who have worked on a variety of
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other projects like Libre.fm, GNU Social, Status.net, Miro, Miro
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Community, OpenHatch and other projects as well. We're admirers and
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contributors. We're writers and painters. We're friendly and
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dedicated to computer user freedom.
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How can I participate?
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See `Get Involved <http://mediagoblin.org/join/>`.
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How is this licensed?
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FIXME - write this once we work out the details
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Is this an official GNU Project? What does that mean?
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We are! It means that we meet the GNU Project's rigourous standards
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for free software. To find out more about what that means, check out
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`the GNU site <http://gnu.org/>`.
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Please feel free to contact us with further questions!
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