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"Socialforge is a social creation lab. A multilingual meeting place for whom interested to make the world a better place to live, through a positive social change. | "Socialforge is a social creation lab. A multilingual meeting place for whom interested to make the world a better place to live, through a positive social change. | ||
It is our belief that the new century is ripe for the self-empowerment of individuals and/through communities: all of us, as individuals, are carriers of new aspirations, and the time has arrived to consort in order to bring these ideas to fruition and to build a new society as a commonwealth of free citizens, without constraints either from faraway legislatures or from corporate directorates. It is indeed difficult to imagine a new world without envisioning and projecting how it will | It is our belief that the new century is ripe for the self-empowerment of individuals and/through communities: all of us, as individuals, are carriers of new aspirations, and the time has arrived to consort in order to bring these ideas to fruition and to build a new society as a commonwealth of free citizens, without constraints either from faraway legislatures or from corporate directorates. It is indeed difficult to imagine a new world without envisioning and projecting how it will work. This initiative is named Socialforge, because we are strongly inspired by Sourceforge, the world largest freesoftware repository. Our approach is the same of free-software: as it liberated knowledge from artificial scarcity imposed by restrictive copyright, so we wish to supply a pool of political, social and economical ideas based on collaboration instead of competition, freedom instead of domination and abundance instead of scarcity. | ||
Socialforge isn't a typical website, its value depends on you. You help make this place useful to others. You help decide how it evolves. This website is an open workspace where everyone interested in the site topics could share news and information; discuss different ideas and viewpoints; build projects and propose actions; collaborate on documents; post announcements. Socialforge has lot of features but his spirit is, first and foremost, the one of a wiki, a website written by its visitors. | Socialforge isn't a typical website, its value depends on you. You help make this place useful to others. You help decide how it evolves. This website is an open workspace where everyone interested in the site topics could share news and information; discuss different ideas and viewpoints; build projects and propose actions; collaborate on documents; post announcements. Socialforge has lot of features but his spirit is, first and foremost, the one of a wiki, a website written by its visitors. | ||