How to participate
Your help is welcome!
There are various ways to take part in La Quadrature du Net's action. Here are a few examples:
Stay informed
To stay informed of our publications and future actions, you can subscribe to the following RSS feeds:
You can also subscribe to two Twitter accounts:
@LaQuadrature: La Quadrature's main account, on Twitter et Identi.ca
@UnGarage: A community-edited account, open to all participants on the chatroom Twitter et Identi.ca
You can also subcribe to our monthly newsletter by entering your email in the form below:
Your email address will not be used for anything but sending messages related to our activity. It will not be shared with third-parties.
Talk about La Quadrature du Net around you
You can participate by telling your friends, colleagues, family about la Quadrature's work and issues, referring them to this website and warning them about legislative projects on the national, European and international levels. You can participate by sharing information and documents from this website on other websites, forums, blogs, as well as larger media both well-known or not. You may also use La Quadrature's visuals in your messages.
Warn decision makers and political representatives
You can contact Members of the national Parliament, and Members of the European Parliament to share your concerns and ask them to act against Internet related law projects that endanger individual freedoms. You will find on the website and the wiki all the information you need to be informed and to contact your elected representatives.
Show your support on the website
Non-governmental organizations are welcome to show their support to La Quadrature du Net. To do so, they can contact us at soutien@laquadrature.net and provide us with a description of their structure (French / English), a logo (High Definition if possible), a contact address, and optionally a quote explaining the reasons for their support.
Contribute
La Quadrature du Net often needs help to accomplish certain tasks and your know-how can be very precious.
Tools
La Quadrature du Net has several tools to get these tasks done :
- Our project manager lists tasks in which everyone can take part. Do not hesitate to register, choose a project you like, and start doing.
- Our “discussion@laQuadrature” mailing list is intended to help spread calls to participate to La Quadrature du Net's actions, such as calling Members of the European Parliament, spreading campaigning messages, etc. This list is also used to give suggestions and feedback of any kind, and for general discussion.
This list is open to all participants and archives are available to all registered members.You can subscribe to this list by entering your email address in the following form:
Your email address will not be used for anyhing but sending messages related to our activity. It will not be shared to third-parties.
- The quadpad is a real-time collaborative text editor, it allows live document editing by several people at the same time.
- Chat rooms (available via IRC) open to anyone for more information about la Quadrature, general discussion or to propose your help on general or specific items.
Please, do not hesitate in using these tools, that's what they are there for.
Contribute to the wiki
You can contribute to La Quadrature du Net's wiki by adding new content, consolidating existing content or correcting spelling and grammar mistakes.
Participate in the Press Review
You can join the PR team and help make the Press Review. Go to this page for more information about the working process and how the press review is edited. If you're willing to join the PR team, join the IRC #lqdn-rp chatroom where you will receive a cheerful welcome.
Translate
A lot of documents (Press releases, notes, articles, files, etc.) are published on the website, either in English or in French initially, and need to be translated. The announcements for translations are made via our translation mailing list, trad@laquadrature.net, and on Twitter and Identi.ca If your language skills allow you to translate without using auto-translation software then your know-how will be highly appreciated. You can subscribe to the translation mailing list on this page: https://laquadrature.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/trad
Audiovisual
La Quadrature du Net would like to keep a record of its spokesperson's interventions and of any media relating to its issues. To do so, we need people to record these shows and send them to the mediakit. For more information, please read our tutorial on recording (in French).
Graphics
If you have graphics skills, your help is welcome. Banners, buttons, promotional multimedia elements and short ads are particularly sought-after.
Do not hesitate to contact us.
Contact
We tried to make as detailled as possible a list of the ways that you can contribute to La Quadrature du Net's actions. If you have more questions, do not hesitate to contact Axel via email (as @ laquadrature.net) or on IRC.
For more general questions, or questions related to La Quadrature's issues, please use our contact form.
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