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diff --git a/site/index.en.org b/site/index.en.org index 4a775ab..c87481d 100644 --- a/site/index.en.org +++ b/site/index.en.org @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ #+TITLE: Fripost \ndash the Free Email Association #+SETUPFILE: includes/level-0.org -Note: See the [[file:medlemskap.en.org][membership]] page for more information about how to join. - Technology has never been neutral. The ownership structure of technology companies and their endeavour for profit ensures that usage of their services for work and communication will never be free. @@ -15,13 +13,42 @@ engagement in their privacy and freedom? For any one individual, the goal of user freedom may be unattainable. Together, we can move mountains. -We are proud to present the newly formed Association for Free Email, -Fripost. With a distributed network of servers, Fripost will deliver a free and -reliable email service. +We are proud to present the Association for Free Email, Fripost. Fripost has +since late 2010 delivered a free and reliable email service, with a distributed +network of servers. + +#+HTML: <div class="divider"></div> + +* Join Now + +We are happy do declare that the membership fee has been decreased. Since the +yearly meeting in Mars 2012 we lowered the entrance fee from 300 to 200 +SEK. Fripost consists of all members together, and the only way to strengthen +our strives is to become more. A lowered fee has been one of the wishes of +Fripost's members, and a lowered fee also lowers the threshold for to free your +mailing. + +You become a member by sending 200 SEK to the association + - Through bank payment, + - PayPal, or + - By cash payment at one of the association's meetings. + +200 SEK -- A small price for freedom + +Details are found at the [[file:medlemskap.org][membership page]]. + +Paying the membership fee corresponds to the smallest effort members commit to in the +association, but we expect members to take larger part in the work of +Fripost. That means, for example, to sometime show up at the association's +activities, or take part in the mailing lists or at [[https://wiki.fripost.org][Fripost's wiki]]. + +Donations are also appreciated. Fripost suggests that one can join and at +the same time contribute with 300 SEK. To do so, pay 500 SEK to one of the bank accounts +or use the special PayPal button. #+HTML: <div class="divider"></div> -* FRIPOST \ndash FREE MAILING +* Fripost \ndash Free Mailing Free your mailing! @@ -49,7 +76,6 @@ probably not asked for: advertisement, semantic analysis of email contents, and spying. One part of Google's marketing strategy is to sell the collected information to third party. - ** The Free Email Association Fripost was founded in order to take back a small, but important, part of our @@ -85,38 +111,39 @@ bring yet another part of their computer usage under their own control. User freedom is possible! -** Join Now - -So far we have a running test system; the software setup is working, but we have -not yet bought the hardware we want to use. The association rely on donations -and unconditional, unlimited loans, but to achieve sufficient dependability, we -need to do investments in storage and server hosting. - -200 SEK -- A small price for freedom - -The starting budget needed is about 15 000 SEK. With a member fee of 200 SEK we -will need 50 members before we can really get going. +** Participate -|----------+----------| -| Plusgiro | 477884-1 | -| Bankgiro | 311-5060 | -|----------+----------| +The membership fee, 200 SEK, is a small price for freedom. -#+HTML: <br /><!-- FIXME: fulhack --> +Fripost is based on voluntary work. There are always things to do for those who +want to get involved. As said before, paying the membership fee corresponds to +the smallest effort members take in the association, but we expect members to +take larger part in the work of Fripost: sometime show up at the association's +activities, or be active on the association's [[https://wiki.fripost.org][wiki]], email lists, and chatt +channel. -You may also use cash payment. +Many of Fripost's members also participate by just configuring their email +clients and free their mailing. -** Participate Even More +Members are as active in the association as they like, and all members have the same +possibilities to take part in the association's democratic process. -Fripost is based on voluntary work. There are always things to do for those who -want to get involved. Most of Fripost's members, however, just configure their -clients and free their mailing. +** More Information -** More information is available through +Fripost's official language is Swedish. however, many members, also in the +administrators team, are non Swedish speakers. Therefore by-laws and similar +documents are written in Swedish, but documentation and such is all in +English. Documentation is in English also because of that one of the main ideas +with Fripost is to encourage others to follow Fripost's initiative. Fripost's +documentation is a good way to get started. -[[http://fscons.org/2010/infrastructure/distributed-email-system][Abstract of a talk, given by Gustav Eek and Stefan Kangas at FSCONS, November 2010]]. +More sources of information + - [[http://fscons.org/2010/infrastructure/distributed-email-system][Abstract of a talk]], given by Gustav Eek and Stefan Kangas at FSCONS, November + 2010 + - [[https://wiki.fripost.org][Fripost's wiki]], which contains ideas, instructions, and minutes + - [[http://git.fripost.org][The Git repositories]] -[[http://fellowship.se/][Fellowship of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) Göteborg chapter's wiki-page]] +For further questions see [[file:kontakt.org][contact page]] for how to get in contact with Fripost. Fripost started as a project within Göteborg Fellowship of FSFE, but is now an independent association. @@ -124,4 +151,3 @@ independent association. A version of this text is available as a [[file:material/leaflet.pdf][leaflet]], which you can print and use to spread the word. -See the [[file:medlemskap.en.org][membership]] page for more information about how to join. Warm Welcomes! |