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#+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!