Re: Freedom ladder call for participation

[Paul Sutton]

On 08/07/2021 21:24, Greg Farough wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
>
> You might have seen this already, but we're looking for community
> participation[1] on a new guide of ours called the "freedom ladder,"
> which we hope will allow people unfamiliar with free software to take
> their first steps into the movement.
>
> One extremely important problem with general GNU/Linux "guides" is
> that they end up encouraging the user to rest content with a computer
> running at least some amount of nonfree software, if they even bother
> to talk about software freedom at all. By contrast, we want ours to
> acknowledge that it isn't necessary to go from a fully proprietary
> computing setup to a fully free one in the span of a single day,
> *while at the same time* encourage them in a way that keeps the fully
> free "finish line" constantly in mind. Every little bit helps, and
> it's important to keep in mind that every refusal[2] to use a
> proprietary program is a step in the right direction.
>
> We'd love your help on this, so over the course of the next month
> we'll be hosting some IRC sessions[3] about each of the steps that we've
> drafted.
>
> Hoping to hear from you and to see you there.
>
> -g
>
> [1]: 
> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/the-journey-begins-with-a-single-step-climb-the-freedom-ladder
> [2]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/saying-no-even-once.html
> [3]: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Freedom_Ladder
>
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Sounds interesting, I'll keep an eye on the IRC chat etc.

Paul

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