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The project's writings

While we spend a lot of time writing documentation for our GNU.FREE software we also take a break to express our opinions on certain issues. An important part of this project is evangelising Free Software in e-democracy and generally.

Writing articles, getting them published and stimulating debate with certain opinions is a great way to raise the profile of the project while communicating what we feel are important ideas. So even if we don't get everyone to use our software then at least we've begun to get the important issues on their radar.

We also aim to do research which can help improve our own software, inform others and as well as stimulating debate.


Aims of the Project

We are a free software project creating Java electronic voting software released under the General Public License (GPL). With this software we aim to:-

  • Provide a secure and private system
  • Create scalable and reliable software
  • Offer a non-commercial, non-partisan voting alternative
  • Use the GPL to create an open system that Internet users will trust
  • Release a system that can be used to support the growth of effective democracy anywhere in the world
Additionally, in support of our wider development community, the project aims to:-

  • Advocate the free software paradigm
  • Evangelise the use of technology to strengthen democracy within a holistic understanding of the current malaise i.e. Internet voting alone isn't going to solve turnout problems
As an official GNU package and one of two electronic voting projects of FreeDevelopers.net our Free Software evangalism aims our particularly important.


Index of Articles


Freedom of Information Requests

As part of our advocacy we sometimes serve Freedom of Information Requests on governments to find our what they're really doing in e-government...

Call for Contributions

If you have an opinion, research result or idea that is in line with the project's aims then sit down and write about it.

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius power and magc in it. Begin it now." - Goethe

Submit it to us at jeep@free-project.org.



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