We make sure to share recipes, products and lessons learned freely. We elevate our achievements in the Commons. We want everyone to be able to take it and adapt it to their own situation, but also to avoid being in a position of power because of a monopoly on one resource or another.
We are working with peer.tube to create a PeerTube showcase with interesting and quality videos. See you in 2023 to see the progress of the project! - [Watch the first contents](https://peer.tube/)
Framalibre is a directory presenting free software and free culture in general. The writing of the records is community based (like Wikipedia): all users are encouraged to create, improve and modify the records, to enrich the directory! - [Explore Framalibre](https://framalibre.org/)
Clause *“If you are not happy, you are invited to go elsewhere”*: if the service does not suit you, you are free to find some an equivalent (or better) elsewhere, or to install your own;
Framasoft regularly makes its expertise and resources available to other initiatives and collectives. We can mention, for example, Exodus Privacy, affordance.info, InterHOP, Datagueule, Contribulle, Thunderbird, Entrée Libre, la Bataille du Libre, Animafac, CEMÉA, affordance.info, Resnumerica, Designers éthiques, Hubikoop, etc - [See our partners](https://framasoft.org/partenaires/)
From the general documentation of the services we host to the specific documentation of the software we develop (PeerTube, Mobilizon, Yakforms)… Every year, Framasoft writes, maintains and updates many lines of text! - [See the documentation](https://docs.framasoft.org)
The contrib’ateliers are workshops where you are invited to contribute to free projects, even (and especially) if you don’t know how to code. Our association is working to make sure that these Contrib’ateliers develop everywhere in France, and even online with the Confin’ateliers! - [Learn more about the Contrib’ateliers](https://contribateliers.org/)
Clause *“Any abuse will be punished”*: if a user abuses the service, for example by monopolizing shared machine resources, or by publishing content considered to be irrelevant, their content or their account can be deleted without warning or negotiation. @:color.soft remains the sole judge of this notion of “abuse” in order to provide the best possible service to all its users. If it seems anti-democratic, anti-libristic, anti-free speech to you, please refer to the previous clause;
Neither we nor the association are eternal… and we accept this. We act for the compostability of Framasoft, that is to say that we take care to leave fertile traces, to create useful ruins so that those who will come after us can build with what will remain of our actions.
The digital world sometimes excludes non-English speakers. That's why Framalang –a self-managed working group– translates English articles, websites and books into French. The translations are then published on the Framablog. - [Participate in Framalang](https://participer.framasoft.org/fr/framalang/index.html) - [Read Framalang articles](https://framablog.org/author/framalang-framasoft/)
We often contribute to the code of software we use. We have, among others, worked on Sympa (Framalistes – group emails), Nextcloud (Framadrive and Framagenda – storage, synchronisation, contacts calendar…) or Framadate (alternative to Doodle)…
Clause *“Nothing is eternal”*: services can close (for example, because of a lack of funds to maintain them), they can be victims of intrusion (the “100% secure” does not exist). We encourage you to keep a copy of the data that is important to you, because @:color.soft can not be held responsible for hosting it forever.