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Become a member
Summary Become a member of FFII.org and support the association. How this helps You pay a small membership fee but more importantly, you give moral support to the many people who give their effort...
Become an affiliate
Summary How to make your existing organisation an FFII affiliate. How this helps The FFII is, as has been said, a network of people all over the world who work together to solve hard problems such...
Build a microsite
Summary Capture a project, campaign, or knowledge base in one place. How this helps We process data into information, and merge information into knowledge. We then send the knowledge in an email...
Connect a Wikidot site to a Gandi domain
Summary This article explains how to connect a Wikidot site to a Gandi.net domain. Explanation This is an amateur HOWTO for how to connect a wikidot wiki to a gandi domain name. The example used...
Contact a business
Summary The FFII is not just an activist organisation; we also represent businesses, especially small-to-medium firms that depend on open standards and the ability to compete freely in a healthy...
Contact a journalist
IN PROGRESS Summary How this helps Explanation Comments N points Read more about points... Author Your name <gro.iiff|diruoy#gro.iiff|diruoy>
Contact a politician
IN PROGRESS Summary How this helps Explanation Comments N points Read more about points... Author Your name <gro.iiff|diruoy#gro.iiff|diruoy>
Create a wikidot microsite
Summary A step-by-step guide to making a pretty and useful microsite using Wikidot. Like this site. When you follow this guide, don't skip steps, or things won't work as you expect. How this...
Donate money
Summary Donate money to the FFII. How this helps The FFII has no wealthy backers, it runs off membership fees and donations. We use the money to pay expenses like travel and phone costs,...
Join a workgroup
Summary How to take part in FFII workgroups. How this helps The FFII is 'all workgroups', so to do anything useful, you need to be part of a workgroup. Most workgroups are only moderately active,...
Launch a campaign
IN PROGRESS Summary How this helps Explanation Comments N points Read more about points... Author Your name <gro.iiff|diruoy#gro.iiff|diruoy>
Learn to lobby
Summary Learn to become a lobbyist aka "public relations expert". How this helps A large part of our work is convincing politicians and journalists that the knowledge we have collected and refined...
Organise a conference
Summary Organise a conference that discusses some key issue. How this helps Conferences are useful for educating people and for making contacts with experts in the field. Successful conferences...
Organise an event
IN PROGRESS Summary How this helps Explanation Comments N points Read more about points... Author Your name <gro.iiff|diruoy#gro.iiff|diruoy>
Raise funding
Summary Raise funding from a business or an organisation that funds NGOs. How this helps The FFII has no wealthy backers, it runs off membership fees and donations. Individual donations are great,...
Reach another NGO
Summary Make contact with another non-governmental organisation (NGO). How this helps The FFII is not an empire, it's a network, and we grow by making friends in as many places as...
Recruit a new member
Summary Invite interesting people to join as FFII members. How this helps New members keep the association alive and bring in new ideas and energy. Explanation The FFII has an excellent reputation...
Resolve conflicts
Summary How to resolve conflicts between individuals and groups. How this helps Conflict is a natural ingredient of any collective action. When pointed in some directions, it is constructive. When...
Run a national chapter
Summary Running a national chapter is like herding cats in a field while the onlookers throw eggs at you. How this helps The FFII exists as a network of smart people who work together on the...
Run a workgroup
Summary How this helps Explanation - how to create lists, starting with open, internal, exec Comments N points Read more about points... Author Your name...
Start a blog
Summary Write a blog to spread the word. How this helps The classic media (news, TV, radio) is proprietary and cannot be trusted to give a fair or accurate report of key events. The free media...
Start a local group
Summary Create a local or national group to work on FFII activities. How this helps The FFII is a global network of local groups. We find our strength in numbers, our creativity in diversity, our...
Use your ffii.org mail alias
Summary An explanation of how to use your ffii.org mail alias. How this helps Using your ffii.org mail alias helps others remember that you are part of an organisation, not just an individual. It...
Write a great slogan
Summary Put it all into a few words. How this helps A good slogan can help communicate a large, complex set of ideas in a simple easy to grasp package. Most very clever people think other people...

Stories

Open standards in Germany
Open Standards definition of the Bundestag - Germany June 2007 How the FFII helped the German Bundestag make the right decision about open standards. On the 6th of June 2007, the coalition of the...

Projects

Howto - the FFII guide
How to use the FFII The FFII is a tool for people to work together to improve their world. But the tool is not very well documented and this makes it harder for people to work than it should be....

Articles

All about points
Points This site gives 'points' for the various ways people contribute to the FFII's activities. Part of this is just so you know what helps the most, part is to let people calculate their...
FFII FAQ
Frequently asked questions Who pays for the FFII? Who pays for Linux? Welcome to 2007, the age of the community, in which millions of people work together to achieve great things. To be accurate,...

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