The year is 2016 AD. The whole web is occupied by centralized services… Well… not entirely. One small village of indomitable Free Software lovers still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the legionaries who garrison the fortified camps of Closedum, Centralizum, Trackum, and Proprietarum.
Create an email group, that’s an unique email address which will distribute emails to all of the addresses in the group (alternative to Google Groups).
No! A donation to Framasoft supports all our actions. Donations to our association fund all our projects. The care work that we are planning with De-google-ify Tech Care is a long-term operation that it is impossible for us to quantify exactly. This care is human, so our calculations can only be estimates for a day's work when ‘everything is going well’! We know that additional maintenance will cost us time, and therefore money. We therefore estimate that in 2024 De-google-ify Tech Care will cost us €60,000 more than in a year when this care would not be a priority (‘estimate’, because it's very hard to put a precise figure on a care project), and we're challenging you to raise the money in 3 weeks, between now and 2 July.
Create an email group, that’s an unique email address which will distribute emails to all of the addresses in the group (alternative to Google Groups).
In addition to @:meta.F, the non-profit association leading the campaign described here, we may also mention <a href="http://april.org">l’April</a>, <a href="http://laquadrature.net">la Quadrature du Net</a> or <a href="http://aful.org">l’Aful</a>. These organizations can only keep going with the help of your donations, so don’t forget to support them!
Yes and no. Yes, because a donation at any time of year will fund Framasoft's actions. We can't thank you enough for this! And no, because we want to carry out 2 experiments using this collection: - This is the first test of our association's budget funding (96% of which is based on donations). Currently, around 50% of the year's donations are made in the last 3 weeks of December. ([figures for 2023](https://soutenir.framasoft.org/fr/stats/#2023)). So it's ‘a bit stressful’ for us at the end of the year, when we can't be sure⋅es to reach our provisional budget before the last days of December. Highlighting our actions during the year (as with this fundraiser) potentially makes you want to support us at a time other than the end of the year. We're experimenting with this aspect, and we'll let you know if the test is conclusive or not! - C’est aussi une manière pour nous de voir si ce dorlotage régulier de It's also a way for us to see if you're enthusiastic about this regular pampering of our services. Let's pamper ourselves, it's a labour of love, a little less attractive than a brand new project, but we think it's particularly important. Taking part in this fundraising campaign will also help us to know whether we're heading in the right direction (or not!).
Online services are often closed-source: once you start using them, it is very difficult to leave, because these companies do everything to keep you captive by preventing you, for example, from migrating your data elsewhere.
