Framasoft

For 16 years, Framasoft has been a french-speaking doorway to free software and culture. A link between developers of open solutions and the general public. The success of alternative services from “De-google-ify Internet” shows that it’s possible to respect people and their data. We want to go further and only your support will will allow us to propose or refine more services.

Framasoft is a group of retired people, employees, unemployed, artists, teachers and students… Not really spealized in computer science, but well enough informed to know that Free software is a part of the solution. So we commit ourselves to some ethics through a charter and we spent our time highlighting or introducing more and more free solutions to a wider audience.

To manage properly the projects, Framasoft is based upon a non-profit (1901 law in France), recognized of general interest. Your donations can be deduced from your taxes (in France only). For instance, with a recurring donation of €120 (€10 per month for one year), the reduction is €79.20 and so the actual expense is €40.80. Doing so, you participate directly to our projects, productions, structural expenses and the salary of several employees.

As soon as you click, share, use a software or a website/service, you give it some value. This is attention economy. This attention is then financiarized with advertising and the sale of data (Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, etc.) or with enclosing type of sales (Apple, Amazon). This attention can also create some value absed upon donation, sharing and participation (Wikipedia). We have chosen this last model for us. This gives us independency from the market laws and total freedom to our donators.

Yes, no less. One project after another, we demonstrate that free, simple, respectful and community-driven alternatives are possible. In our collaborative publishing house, our writers let you get freely their digital ebooks and get paid through paper sales or your direct donations. Our De-google-ify services are more and more used… There is still a long road to do and we can go on thanks to your support: “There is a long way to go, but the road is Free”.