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Dyne.org is a nonprofit effort lead by a grassroot committee of hackers dedicated to development of free and open source software for the freedom of speech and creation.
If you like, contact us.
We develop and distribute software to manipulate and broadcast audio and video, free as in free speech.
We mantain a GNU/Linux distribution for multimedia production, optimized to run well on old computers and game consoles, for the sake of ecology and accessibility.
A wide number of activists, researchers, musicians and artists are using our software worldwide, as a free tool for their creativity and sharing, as a media that they can copy, modify and redistribute as they want.
And we open all the sourcecode.
Dyne.org intends to promote the idea and practice of open source knowledge sharing within civil society by fostering research, development, production and distribution of Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) based solutions: by opening the partecipation to online and physical communities, leveraging democratical and horizontal access to technology and lowering economic requirements for accessibility.
To produce software that runs faster and better on old computers. As the possibility to recycle hardware is an important ecological issue, we claim legitimacy to hack all electronical devices that can be useful.
To foster use of FLOSS in comunication and artistical creation: exploring new forms of expression and interaction, disseminating new languages that can be freely adopted and modified, ensuring everyone the long term conservation of people's creations.
To insure sustainability of FLOSS development for independent and non-profit efforts. Since software is a socially relevant media, it should not survive solely on the basis of merchantability.
Dyne.org is a transversal network of hackers.
At the origins of this network there is a young and displaced brotherhood of alchemists, radio amateurs, mathematicians, revolutionaries, nomads, researchers, activists, coders and artisans.
The Freaknet is a medialab, museum and poetry hacklab on the mediterranean island of Sicily, surviving since 1994 the hostile environment of south italian criminal administration and cultural repression.
The Hackmeeting is since 1998 the annual gathering of computer and reality hackers, a self-organized Temporaneously Autonomous Zone happening every year in a different squatted place around the italian peninsula.
Dyne.org is the virtual space which appeared online in 2000 with the publication of rasta software that makes it possible to broadcast also with old hardware and on poor network connections.
With us, mostly born in the '70s and '80s, generations of hackers are growing as valid coders and sysadmins, with wisdom and kungfu.
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Our definition of Free and Open Source Software refers to all software licensed and distributed under the GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation. Free has to be intended as "Libre", free as in free speech, not simply gratis. Free software must let users redistribute, modify, and adapt software without any fee.
We refer to such software as acronym FLOSS (free libre open source software).
FLOSS implies 4 fundamental freedoms:
You'll find much more informations about this topic on the philosophy pages mantained and hosted by the Free Software Foundation.
The Dyne.org is a non-profit foundation formally established in december 2005 and located in Amsterdam (Netherlands) with registration number 34237525.
By non-profit we specify that all the revenues are reinvested in research, development, use and distribution of FLOSS software and hardware products fitting our philosophy and goals.
Grassroot is a spontaneous and sometimes passional way to partecipate and do things, which you can see as deeply different from the Corporate way.
We are creatives and we share our creations freely.
We have nor hierarchy neither power structures.
We all have political consciousness for what we are doing, which we express in results and openness.The fundamentals of this network are identities, defining themself with and through their activity: dyne.org is not represented neither subsumes them. Each identity emerges by the code that has published.
One dyne is the force required to cause a mass of one gram to accelerate at a rate of one centimeter per second squared in the absence of other force-producing effects.
A dyne is 1.000.000 times a newton.
The dyne measure has been established by Heraclitus, a greek philosopher born at Ephesus around 540 b.C., whom once also said that "much learning does not teach understanding".
Panta rei!
Join development of our software projects, let everyone know on a mailinglist what you've done.
You can start something new and share our ideas on Idiki
keep the groove of creation \o/ we read the code and we feel the heartbeat ;^)
Via mail, you can get in touch with us using this contact form.
There is also IRC channel #dyne on irc.freenode.net where you can meet some of us if you have a reasonable tolerance to network and life latencies, jokes, cyber freaks and ascii pr0n ;)
You can also try to have look in the Midgaard Square Market in Anatolia.
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