12 Facts About Framasoft

Framasoft is a popular education social network created in November 2001 by Alexis Kauffmann, Paul Lunetta, and Georges Silva.

Entire Framasoft production is provided under Free license in order to promote participation and guarantee that everyone can benefit from it, without any appropriation whatsoever.

Framasoft Free mentions is a corporate and non-profit third party.

Framasoft began as a software section of this project, before getting its independence, acting as a free software directory for Windows.

In June 2007, Framasoft receives the "Lutece d'Or" for "the best conducted community action" during the event Paris Capitale du Libre.

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In January 2009, Framasoft set up a support website dedicated to collect donations and testimonies.

Framasoft celebrates its 10 years with a radio show Place de la toile on France Culture in November 2011.

In January 2013, Framasoft joins other organisations such as Savoirscom1, Regards citoyens or the Open Knowledge Foundation France to refuse privatisation of domaine public by the Bibliotheque nationale de France.

In June 2014, a crowdfunding campaign allowed Framasoft to add new features to Framapad, followed in October 2014 by the launch of the "De-google-ify Internet" campaign .

Framasoft took the opportunity to start their own code body hosting called Forge.

In May 2015, Framasoft started a new Web search engine service, in order to continue demonstrating that alternatives to Google are possible.

Since Framasoft was becoming a large collaborative project, it became necessary to provide all the technical parts of a growing network, like ownership of domain names associated with a moral person, to accompany projects in a coherent way so they are part of a whole and to represent Framasoft through more and more interventions in the field.