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"press->md" = "#### Mobilizon, a free and federated tool to get our events off Facebook!\n\nOn Tuesday, May 14, 2019, the non-profit organization <a href=\"https://framasoft.org/en/\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">Framasoft</a> launched a fundraiser for the <a href=\"https://joinmobilizon.org/en/\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">Mobilizon software</a>. You will find here elements to understand\nits context and discover functionalities.\n\n#### Why Mobilizon?\n\nDuring the <a href=\"https://contributopia.org/en/\">Contributopia\ncampaign</a>, Framasoft announced that we’d provide a new web service that will\nallow communities to create their own event publication spaces, in order to\nmake it easier to emancipate themselves from the tech giants platforms. Indeed,\nwhen we organize gatherings through Facebook tools or on Meetup-like services,\nwe provide group members private data to these Big Tech’s platforms. Clicking\n\"Going\" on a Facebook event is problematic: it says <a href=\"https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DCN-Google-Data-Collection-Paper.pdf\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">much more about yourself than you might think</a>, gives <a\nhref=\"https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/cambridge-analytica-files\">significant\npower to advertisers who pay Facebook</a> and encloses the community events\ninto <a href=\"https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_how_the_internet_has_made_social_change_easy_to_organize_hard_to_win\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">a tool that will prevent it from self-managing</a>. We should\nnot forget that terms and conditions of use on these platforms allow their owners\nto close a group or a community without any reason whatsoever. Moreover, their\ncentralized structure represents an entry point for intelligence agencies and\nmalicious hackers.\n\n#### Mobilizon, a free and federated alternative\n\nMobilizon will be ***a free software respecting fundamental freedoms***\nfor people who want to gather together. Mobilizon will be <strong><em>a digital\ncommon</em></strong> which respects privacy and activism by design. Mobilizon\nwill be ***a user-friendly, emancipatory and ethical tool***.\n\nBecause we want to offer the software the most suited to the needs of the users,\nwe took time to think about what a tool that would really empower individuals\nand groups might look like. That’s why we’ve spent the last few months analysing\nexisting tools to understand their various features and to consider how we could\nrespect users by deploying them. It also seemed essential to us to study the\ndigital practices of activists to understand their needs for gathering, organizing\nand mobilizing. That’s why we worked with two designers: <a href=\"http://mcpaccard.com/\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">Marie-Cécile Paccard</a> and <a href=\"https://designandhuman.com/\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">Geoffrey Dorne</a>.\n\nMoreover, we want Mobilizon to be ***federated*** in order\nto allow communities to install their own instance (event publication website).\nMobilizon instances will be able to connect to each other. This will help to\nfoster interactions between communities and their users. As the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">ActivityPub</a> federation protocol allows interaction between\nsoftware applications using the same protocol, We can imagine Mobilizon being\nlinked to [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/) (alternative\nto Twitter), [PeerTube](https://joinpeertube.org/en/)\n(alternative to YouTube) and many other similar tools.\n\n#### Mobilizon, the fundraising\n\nFramasoft have invested time, work and money to imagine Mobilizon’s design.\nSince our organization is financed only by donations, we set up this fundraising\nto keep investing in the development of this software . We have chosen to organize\nit on our own website in order to reduce bank and administrative costs to the\nminimum. Thus our aim is to propose a new model for financing digital commons.\n\nLaunched on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, the Mobilizon fundraising is organized around\n3 levels to reach before July 10:\n\n##### Level 1: €20,000 - Free & basic version\n\nThis amount will cover our prototype expenses. Thus, we will recover the initial\ninvestment for design and promotion of Mobilizon. Namely: the functionalities\nbenchmark, the designers work on uses and interfaces, and the development time\non basic functionalities on events.\n\n→ This 1st level was reached in less than 5 days.\n\n##### Level 2: €35,000 – Federated version\n\nWith this extra €15,000, we will be able to finance ActivityPub protocol implementation\nand the development of administration tools for instances. The fact that Mobilizon\nis federated is important to allow users to connect to several communities.\nEach Mobilizon account could be linked to other federated softwares.\n\n##### Level 3: €50,000 – Ideal Version\n\nIf we reach €50,000 in donations, we will get involved in design and development\nof new features. Thus, we would like Mobilizon to provide a groups feature,\nwhich would integrate messaging and exchange tools between members. Another\nfeature that seems necessary to us is the possibility of integrating external\ntools which community members already use (survey tools, decision-making tools,\ncollaborative tools, etc.). Finally, we intend to integrate the possibility\nfor Mobilizon users to manage several identities depending on the communities\nthey are part of.\n\nWith €50,000, we would have the resources to produce the best software we can\ncreate until fall of 2019. Then, we will publish a beta release built on a solid\nbase which will allow us to offer you more features. With extra cash, we could\nconsider going beyond this beta release. The users feedback and comments on\nthis beta release will allow us to improve Mobilizon in order to propose a first\ncomplete release in the first half of 2020. Producing Mobilizon is not a sprint\nrace, where you promise everything, right away, to everyone. It’s more like\na cross-country race whose first step is to develop a tool which will allow\nyou to create events and do it well.\n\nThe success of this fundraising depends on each of us. Framasoft is committed\nto broadcast Mobilizon’s progress at each new step, on the <a href=\"https://joinmobilizon.org/en/news/\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">News page</a> and in the <a href=\"https://framalistes.org/sympa/info/mobilizon-newsletter\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">dedicated newsletter</a>.\n\n#### Framasoft\n\n[Framasoft](https://framasoft.org/) is a non-profit\norganisation created in 2004, which focuses on popular education on the stakes\nof our digital world. Our small organisation (less than 40 members, including\n9 employees) is known to have carried out the project <a href=\"https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">De-google-ify Internet</a>, which proposes 34 ethical and alternative\nonline tools. Since 2017, we have been developing <a href=\"https://joinpeertube.org/en/\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">PeerTube</a>, a free and federated alternative to YouTube. Recognised\nfor its service of public interest, our organisation is more than 90% funded\nthrough donations, mainly from our French supporters.\n\n#### Contact us\n\nWould you like more information about the Mobilizon fundraising or to conduct\nan interview? Feel free to contact us via medias@framasoft.org.\n\n#### Relay our fundraising on your social medias\n\n- **Share the URL of our fundraising website:** [@:link.joinmobilizon](@:link.joinmobilizon)\n- **2 texts proposals for accompanying text:**\n\n> A free and federated alternative to organize our events off Facebook, Meetup\n  and others?<br /> #Mobilizon, the new #Framasoft project needs you!!!\n\n> A free software who allows communities to create their own events publishing\n  spaces to better emancipate themselves from the tech giants’ platforms?<br />\n  #Mobilizon, the new #Framasoft project needs you!!!\n\n- **Hashtag ideas to go with your posts:**<br /> #Mobilizon #JoinMobilizon\n  #Framasoft #DigitalCommon #EmancipatoryTool #FundRaising #fediverse #ActivityPub";
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"speakabout->intro" = "Here are some extracts from our <a href=\"https://wiki.framasoft.org/speakabout\">Press release</a>.";
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"about->list" = "- [Contact us](@:link.contact/#questions) (This form relates directly\n  to our press service).\n- <a href=\"https://framalistes.org/sympa/info/mobilizon-newsletter\">Newsletter\n  subscription page</a>.\n- [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framasoft) dedicated\n  to Framasoft.\n- Framasoft [Complete presentation](@:link.soutenir/association).\n- Framasoft [Press release](https://wiki.framasoft.org/speakabout).";
"about->desc" = "Framasoft is a freely available public education network which aims to promote\nand spread free software and free culture.\n\nAs a link between the world of free software and the general public, our association\noffers many projects (directory software, a publisher, a websearch engine, etc.),\nwith three main goals: Free Software, Free Culture, and Free Services.'";