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What is free software?

Free software is software that respects the 4 software freedoms. The 4 freedoms are

The freedom to run the run the program
The freedom to study the source code
The freedom to modify the source code
The freedom to distribute modified versions of the source code

Please note: Free software does not relate to monetary price. Free software can be sold or gratis (no cost)

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Thoughts on a Community Wiki (self.freesoftware)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by possiblylinux127 to c/freesoftware

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So I am thinking about creating a free software wiki that's is a central source for information relating to free software. It would also cover things like Linux, self hosting and free software in different industries and use cases.

I'm still thinking about how this could work but I've came to the conclusion that the wiki would need the following:

It would need to easy to contribute to without too much knowledge
It should cover individual software programs as well as more general topics
There should be templates for the different types of pages
A sources and further reading list needs to be at the bottom of each page. Information in the wiki should have at least one outside source to keep the information factual
when a person creates a page they should have real world experience with that software or topic
There should be a heading called concerns or something similar where potential moral or technical downsides can be listed
It shouldn't be persuasive or written to change opinions
It should be in English at least to start
It should have content about other non-free operating systems and how to make them a little more free

Things that need to be figured out:

The software or service
the domain
content organization (by operating system?)

What's your thoughts on this? I would be interested to know

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah, I didn't know about that. That's really good to know! A lot of libre software has issues with freedom and they need to be documented. I think Libre Planet wiki has some page about that (can't find a link to their wiki, though) and there is a small section in Pure OS's bugtracker.

Thanks for the suggestion on software and domains. That is really helpful. Since this post hasn’t received a ton a of activity I’m going to go ahead and put creating a wiki on the back burner.

Not many people hang out here in general (yet). But there is also a free software subreddit (if you are fine with using Reddit or maybe there is some libre frontend? there used to be Teddit) and some channels on Matrix. If you post about it in multiple places, it might be doable. But also I guess it will be easier to get people involved once the website is actually running.

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 10 months ago

Its funny you mention Reddit as I came from there a while back. You probably can find some of my old posts.