Gather ⋅ Organize ⋅ Mobilize
From a friends and familiy birthday party to a march for climate change, today, our gatherings are trapped in the tech giants' platforms. How to get organized, how to click on “I join” without providing intimate data on Facebook or locking yourself in MeetUp?
At Framasoft, we want to produce Mobilizon: a free-libre software that will allow communities to create their own spaces to publish events, in order to better emancipate themselves from tech giants. We want to develop a digital common, that everyone can make theirs, withrespect for privacy and activism by design.
We had help designers to conceive what Mobilizon could be. We took time to study the digital habits of activists in order to understand the features they need to gather, organize, mobilize.
We want to make Mobilizon a user-friendly, emancipatory and ethical tool. Whether it is by creating your event in one of the Mobilizon instances, or by installing your own Mobilizon site… the functionalities of this software will depend on the means you give us to develop it.
A beta version in the fall of 2019
This fundrising will determine what means we will have to work on the software, in order to release a beta version in the fall of 2019. We have 60 days to make this fundraising known and learn which Mobilizon you want to see come true. Here are the (cumulative) steps that your money can help to finance:
Step n°1
€20,000
Free & basic
- Events publishing tool
- UX studies
- Graphic design
- Free & documented code
Step n°2
€35,000
Emancipating & federated
- Federation and links
- Administration tools
- Test/demo instance
- ActivityPub integration
Step n°3
€50,000
Ideal & friendly
- Group management
- Messaging
- Multi-identities
- Managing external tools
and beyond…?
Durable & resilient
- Funded beyond V1
- Advanced Mapping
- Evolution of interfaces
- Mobile application
About the team
Framasoft (it’s us!) is a non-profit association created in 2004, which now focuses on popular education on the stakes of our digital world. Our small organisation (less than 40 members, less than 10 employees) is known to have carried out the project Degoogle-ify the Internet, offering 34 ethical and alternative online tools.
Since 2017, we have been developing PeerTube a free and federated alternative to YouTube. Thanks to your donations from a previous crowdfunding, PeerTube is now enjoying increasing success. Strong from this experience, we imagined the Mobilizon project.
Recognized as being of general interest, our organisation is more than 90% funded through donations, mainly from our french supporters. Today, we need your generosity to help us make Mobilizon a reality, worldwide.
Guest Designers
We asked two designers to come and work with us on this project, so that Mobilizon would correspond, from its conception, the needs and uses of the people who are dedicated to using it.
Marie-Cécile Godwin Paccard
“Independent designer, UX researcher to understand the uses in depth and design usable, ethical and inclusive tools.”
