[Social] Fwd: GNU/social legacy

[hellekin (GNU/social)]

Here is the message I originally sent to this list, but it got stuck in
the way. Sorry for that.

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Subject: GNU/social legacy
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:39:51 -0300
From: hellekin <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
CC: address@hidden

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Dear list members,

as you may have noticed, the Chief GNUisance have reassigned the GNU
Social project to become an umbrella project for free distributed
social network interoperability, under my and Daniel's direction.

If you're in a hurry, skip to the link at the bottom of this message.

Although it might come as a takeover from Matt Lee's original project,
I rather see it as a correction of scope; on August 25, 2009, Matt
wrote: "The goal here is to create a new social platform, from
scratch, that has liberty and freedom built in from the start."

The scope was to create software that would encompass the "social
platform". But we learned that online social networking is more than
software, and more than technology--it's an ontological issue, a
matter of worldview: a matter of freedom, of invention, of complexity.

Hence, we do not intend to create a distinct software package, but
instead to leverage existing free software projects, encouraging their
constituents to embrace the GNU way, and leaving open all
possibilities, including that someone comes up with a new
implementation from scratch.

For years, many have been working around the planet and the clock to
deliver working software to support local communities, activists,
promote and defend freedom, free speech, privacy, community,
decentralization, using exclusively free software, according to the
values we cherish most, and consider necessary to the success of humanity.

Confident that social networking is a nascent, and yet-to-be-defined
field, we want to foster research and cooperation, and support a
diversity of approaches.

In the next days, I will make space for the new GNU/social on
Savannah, etc. I opened the Task Tracker[1] on Savannah to inform you
about my whereabouts.

I intend to keep only a minimal amount of lists before we feel the
need to add more, and that would be address@hidden for general
discussion and address@hidden for announcements.

At this point, my main concern is to archive the existing contents and
try not to break too many links. I'm opened to all suggestions as to
how to proceed with the legacy of this project.

I leave to each list member the liberty to un-subscribe if they wish,
but I'd like to reset the members list on Savannah to ensure everyone
is willing to participate in this new installment of GNU/social. If
that means losing personal configurations or some data, please tell
me, so we can find a better solution together.

Finally, I want to thank all the people and projects that made this
GNU/social possible, and look forward to serving the GNU/social order,
disorder, chaos, science, freedom, poetry, and bliss.

Thank you for your attention, and happy hacking,

==
hk

[1] http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?group=social
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