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L I N U X F O C U S M A N I F E S T O
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LinuxFocus(R) 1998, is a registered trademark
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This file contains a first draft for a constitution of
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LinuxFocus Magazine as a non-for-profit organization. It
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describes in as much detail as possible our organization,
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goals, projects, sites and license terms covering our articles
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and material.
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Introduction
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LinuxFocus came to existance late 1997 when a small group of
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Linux fans in non-english speaking countries realized that the
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amount of support and documentation for the Linux operating
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system was close to none in their respective languages.
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Although most of us were able to read English news groups,
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HOWTOS and books, we felt that providing information of this
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nature in a non-english language was very important. Most young
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people in non-english speaking countries rarely speak or read
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English, their first experience with a computer operating system
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likely comes from the hand of Microsoft windoze. MS sells their
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distribution in almost all languages imaginable. Commercial
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linux distributors are not even near that level.
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Our fundamental goal is then pedagogical. To reach a new
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generation of users and to provide enough information in their
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native language so that they can join in the linux community.
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LinuxFocus has a second goal of more importance for veteran
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users. At LinuxFocus we would like to use the power of online
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communication to carry on series of articles on subjects of
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general interest, hierarchical organization of free source
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code and documentation, online interactive tutorials, online
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conferences, etc...
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Who is involved and how to be a member
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LF is made of a growing number of regular contributors and
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volunteers plus hundreds of sporadic helpers. At the moment our
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organization is very fluid and still under constant changes. LF
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people come from all sources and educational backgrounds. We
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have students, scientists, engineers, college faculty,
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etc... Many are part of other Linux projects.
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New people are always welcome. The best way to become part
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of LinuxFocus is contacting the project coordinator for your
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language of interest. To find out who is the appropriate
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editor-in-chief visit our webpage
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http://www.linuxfocus.org/index.html
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Or send an email to LinuxFocus project leader Miguel A Sepulveda
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at sepulveda@linuxfocus.org
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Is LinuxFocus a commercial company?
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We are not a commercial company. Most of us are too busy
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pursuing other profesional careers so we cannot work full
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time on LinuxFocus. Our organization is slowly and naturally
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evolving into a non-for-profit organization.
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LinuxFocus is brought to you as a result of the effort of a
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number of people and the generous effort of ISPs and Linux
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vendors that give us free server and internet access.
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One of our goals is to raise enough funds to purchase our
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own servers and ISP access. We also would like to have funds
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to contract series of articles that might be too long or
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complex for any single volunteer to take on in a reasonable
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time. Another of our needs is to provide some compensation
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for network and information systems personal to take care of
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our server infrastructure.
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Copyright policy
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LinuxFocus articles are copyrighted by their respective authors.
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The articles, news and documentation on our websites is
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available online for free. We also allow the reproduction of
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verbatim copies of LF material for scholastic and/or personal
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use, however the integrity of the original text, formatting
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and advertisement space must be preserved. Any changes to
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LinuxFocus material requires the prior approval of its authors
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and or the magazine. Commercial use of LinuxFocus articles is
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not allowed without prior written permission from its authors.
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In order to allow the distribution of LinuxFocus magazine
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we need to request authors a few elemental conditions for
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publishing their work. These conditions are aimed at helping
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us legally translate their articles and distribute them through
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our web and FTP sites.
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Authors that submit articles to LinuxFocus should be reminded
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by editors to read this manifesto. Every author to LF should
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receive a copy of this manifesto and be given a chance to
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review it. If within a reasonable time period LinuxFocus does
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not receive a response we will assume that the author of the
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submitted article agrees to the following terms.
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LinuxFocus Social Contract
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1) Authors submitting articles to LF are giving us implicit
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permission to publish and translate their articles. It
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is the only way for us to publish work copyrighted by the
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authors. Authors should understand that our publication may
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take place in our official websites, FTP sites and respective
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mirrors. All these sites are of free access to users with
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internet connection. LinuxFocus may also distribute the articles
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as part of future monographic issues in CD, paper or whatever
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form is necessary.
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2) LinuxFocus has its own set of formatting standards so
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we almost certainly reformat submitted works to fit our
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style. Additional illustrations and references maybe added to
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articles if we judge that it will improve the aestetics and
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bibliographical content. Authors are always welcome to give
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us any special suggestions as to the motif of illustrations
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or formatting requirements. We will do the outmost to adjust
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LF style to authors wishes.
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3) Everyone at LinuxFocus is a volunteer working on an
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idealistic cause to improve the level of documentation on Linux
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in a number of languages. We cannot assure the quality of
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translations, and therefore be responsible for errors. However,
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if errors are detected we will appreciate being notified and
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we will do our best effort to correct it.
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4) Published articles should not be considered final expression
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of speach but on-going pieces of work. Authors are free to
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review their published articles over time, make modifications,
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additions, etc. This policy hopes to improve or update the
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content of articles. Updated articles should be resubmitted
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and follow the standard process.
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5) Articles may be submitted to any of the editors of the
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magazine, or directly via email to sepulveda@linuxfocus.org
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6) Articles submitted to LinuxFocus may be peer-reviewed in
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order to improve LinuxFocus overall quality.
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7) Anyone can download, print, or distribute copies of
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LinxuFocus articles for personal or scholastic usage. LinuxFocus
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articles are not made available on our website for commercial
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usage. Anyone interested on distributing LF articles for
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commercial purposes should contact their respective authors
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to obtain explicit written permission.
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8) Translated works are not solely the property of authors
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but also of LinuxFocus. Therefore no commercial use can be
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made of translated work without LF approval.
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9) Distribution of LF magazine on CD by non-for-profit
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organizations or groups is allowed as long as the contents
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of the magazine are distributed in full and without
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alterations. Distributors may charge a "reasonable" fee to
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cover the expenses of production. Distributing LinuxFocus
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magazine implies to include the full hierarchy of files under
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http://www.linuxfocus.org.
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Disclaimer
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THE CONTENTS OF THIS MAGAZINE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT
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WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.
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LINUXFOCUS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF THE ARTICLES
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AND THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ARE THE AUTHORS ONLY AND DOES NOT
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REPRESENT NEITHER LINUXFOCUS NOR OUR SPONSORS.
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