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Welcome to the social swarm!
Social Swarm is an open think tank initiated by the German privacy and digital rights NGO FoeBuD.
- We want to put the users of social network services back in control of their data.
- We want You to be able to choose which people see your data.
- We want to be independent from centralized infrastructures.
- We want a social swarm.
Get Started
- Watch the lightning talk at 28C3.
- Who we are and what we do in English, auf deutsch et en français.
- Here's the list of free software projects and potential partners we are looking at.
- You can find further information and related links and articles.
- Here's a visual novel on what we are trying to do.
- Make art.
Why don't you participate in this or that project?
We do take part in many projects and we hope those many projects will join forces with us. Social swarm is not about a particular solution to the problem but about the process of working together on the problem, beyond the federation.
Participate
You can take part in our project:
Vote on the priorities
We are looking into Liquid Democracy technologies in order to have a serious decision-making approach. We want you to have more than just your say on how the solution that everyone needs should be shaped.
Mailing lists
In the meantime, the conversation takes place by email and chat.
| Keep in touch via the newsletter | socialswarm-announce |
| Help unfold the strategic convergence | socialswarm-discussion |
| Help discuss technical details | socialswarm-tech |
Hang out in our chatroom
It's available via the following protocols, for your convenience.
All accesses have autodetection or negotiation of TLS encryption, so just flick it on – no need to use a different port number.
Cultivate this wiki
The roadmap gives an overview of the upcoming tasks at hand for a proper development of the swarm. In case some pages are not linked here, you can consult the index. We also keep an archive of collaborative editors we used at the beginning for historical reference. Finally, some pages may have not been moved to Mediawiki yet. (which?)
Donate or steal
If you're part of the problem,
the !swarmers group on Identi.ca
bounces to @social_swarm on Twitter (Hashtag is #socialswarm)
or even Facebook
and Google+.