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+\title{}
+\date{}
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+\begin{document}
+
+\thispagestyle{empty}
+\pagestyle{empty}
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+  \centering
+  \includegraphics[scale=0.4]{thefnf-logo.png}
+\end{figure}
+
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+
+\noindent
+\textbf{Our Vision} 
+\begin{shadequote}
+We envision a world where communities build, maintain, and own their own share
+of the global computer network.
+\end{shadequote}
+\textbf{\\ Our Mission}
+\begin{shadequote}
+The Free Network Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides operators
+around the world with essential infrastructure for the realization and support
+of free networks. We engineer tools and develop educational resources to
+facilitate the deployment of resilient, responsive, and accessible networks.
+\end{shadequote}
+\textbf{\\ Our Values}
+\begin{itemize}
+\item We are an organization committed to the tenets of free information, free culture, and free society.
+\item We hold that advances in information technology provide humanity with
+  the ability to effectively face global challenges.
+\item We contend that our very ability to mobilize, organize, and bring
+  about change depends on our ability to communicate.
+\item We see that our ability to communicate is purchased from a handful of
+  powerful entities.
+\item We know that we cannot depend on these entities to support movement
+  away from a status quo from which they are the beneficiaries.
+\item We believe that access to a free network is a human right, and a
+  necessary tool for environmental and social justice.
+\end{itemize}
+\end{document}

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+\title{\huge \bf Grow Your Own Network}
+\date{}
+
+\newcommand{\statement}[1]{\textbf{#1} \medskip}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+  \centering
+  \includegraphics[scale=0.4]{thefnf-logo.png}
+\end{figure}
+
+\maketitle
+\thispagestyle{empty}
+\pagestyle{empty}
+
+\statement{We envision a world where communities build, maintain, and own their
+  own share of the global computer network. Free networks, when properly
+  engineered, offer their users both a greater say in the governance of their
+  network, and more privacy in their communications. Being your own service
+  provider is the only way to make sure that your service provider treats you
+  right. We call this the principle of digital self-determination, and have
+  designed, prototyped and test deployed a suite of network appliances that
+  will facilitate the realization of this principle.}
+\\
+\\
+The free software community has developed a wide variety of software components
+to address various network related challenges. The Free Network Foundation,
+working with members of the community, is looking to take those components and
+deliver a turnkey, self-administered networking solution that will allow for
+cascading self-governance on local, regional and global scales.
+\\
+\\
+Paired with a cooperative network management suite and integrated cryptosystem,
+our tools will allow for the rapid, simple construction of cooperative
+autonomous systems, with end-to-end encryption enabled by default.
+\\
+\\
+The entire suite is designed to be deployed using the principle of emergence —
+meaning that it can be organized in a way that is bottom-up, top-down or
+middle-out. We call the network appliances FreedomNode, FreedomTower, and
+FreedomLink. The management suite is called AutoNOC, and the transparent
+cryptosystem is AutoTunnel.
+\\
+\\
+In addition to radically increasing network resilience, reducing the price of
+connectivity, and making networks more responsive to the needs of their
+participants, free network architectures will allow for groundbreaking
+localized applications of network technology.  The uses of this technology are
+myriad, and the need is ubiquitous – anywhere in the world, the capacity for
+self-reliance and self-determination would be enhanced by the emergence of a
+free network. Inverting the power structure of our networks is bound to take a
+while, and we are still in the very beginning, but no idea holds greater
+liberating potential than this: computer networks should be funded, built, and
+maintained by those that use them.
+\end{document}

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+\title{\huge \bf Free Network Definition}
+\date{}
+
+\newcommand{\statement}[1]{\textbf{#1} \medskip}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+\begin{figure}[t]
+  \centering
+  \includegraphics[scale=0.4]{thefnf-logo.png}
+\end{figure}
+
+\maketitle
+\thispagestyle{empty}
+\pagestyle{empty}
+
+\statement{The fundamental dialectic of our struggle is this: will we be
+  enslaved by our technology, or liberated by it? It was in cognizance of this
+  notion, and in service to our collective freedom that the Free Software
+  Movement was born. It is in this spirit that we aim here to define exactly
+  what it means to say that a network is free. We hope that the existence of
+  this definition will help illuminate the path to a more just world.}
+\\
+\\
+Our intention is to build communications systems that are owned by the people
+that use them, that allow participants to own their own data, and that use
+end-to-end encryption and cryptographic trust mechanisms to assure privacy. We
+call such systems `free networks' and they are characterized by the following
+five freedoms:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item \textbf{Freedom 0) \\
+    The freedom to participate in the network.}
+  
+  Freedom 0 regards your right to organize cooperative networks.  Conventional
+  networks are characterized by a distinction between provider and user. This
+  mode of organization encourages network operation in the service of
+  self-interest. The provider builds and owns the infrastructure, and the user
+  pays for access. In a free network, however, nodes connect to one another,
+  rather than to a single, monolithic provider. By nature of its design, a free
+  network is owned by those that make use of it. Participants act as providers
+  and users as the same time, and growth is auto-distributed by treating any
+  profits as investment. In this way, those that join the network are able to
+  become owners. This mode of organization encourages network operation in the
+  service of the common good.
+  
+\newpage
+\item \textbf{Freedom 1) \\
+    The freedom to determine where one's bits are stored.}
+
+  Freedom 1 regards your right to own the material stores of your data.
+  Conventional networks encourage (if not force) their participants to store
+  their data in machines which are under the administrative auspices of an
+  external service provider or host. Most folks are not able to serve data from
+  their homes. Participants ought to be free to store their own data (so that
+  it is under their care) without sacrificing their ability to publish it.
+    
+\item \textbf{Freedom 2) \\
+    The freedom to determine the parties with whom one's bits are shared.}
+
+  Freedom 2 regards your right to control access to your data.  Data mining and
+  the monetization of sharing has become common practice. Participants should
+  be free to choose those with whom they would like to share a given piece of
+  information. Only someone who owns their own data can fully exercise this
+  freedom, but it is an issue regardless of where the relevant bits are stored.
+
+\item \textbf{Freedom 3) \\
+    The freedom to transmit bits to one's peers without the prospect of
+    interference, interception or censorship.}
+
+  Freedom 3 regards the right to speak freely with your peers.  Information
+  flows in conventional networks are routinely and intentionally intercepted,
+  obstructed, and censored. This is done at the behest of corporate and state
+  actors around the world. In a free network, private communications should
+  remain unexamined from the time they enter the network until the time they
+  reach their destination.
+
+\item \textbf{Freedom 4) \\
+    The freedom to maintain anonymity, or to present a unique, trusted
+    identity.}
+  
+  Freedom 4 regards your right to construct your own identity There is
+  increasing pressure to forbid anonymity, and yet trustworthy communications
+  remain rare. While it is essential to liberty that individuals be able to
+  remain anonymous in the online public sphere, it is also essential that they
+  be able to construct and maintain persistent, verifiable identities. Such
+  identities might bear a legal name, a common name, or an avatar that masks
+  one's corporeal self -- individuals could have many such identities, and
+  switch between them at will. Clear delineation between anonymous,
+  pseudonymous, and onymous actors would enable all of us to better asses the
+  trustworthiness of others on the network.
+  
+\end{itemize}
+
+\end{document}