Mission

Our Mission

The mission of the SharedUniverse project is to protect and enhance each person's Online Computing Freedom in the Virtual World by doing the following:

• Envision a Free Virtual World enabled by a set of Integrated Virtual World Services (to be called collectively, the SharedUniverse Software).
• Articulate the Vision for a Free Integrated Virtual World so that like-minded contributors can bring benefits to all in an economy of sharing.
• Coordinate among Free Software Developers and Partially Free Service Providers to create an Increasingly Free implementation of this SharedUniverse Software. The spirit of the project is to cooperate with anyone who furthers the goals of the public in creating a Free Virtual World. The software is envisioned to be made up of hundreds of Free Software projects currently being developed.
• Host a Free (community-supported) reference installation of this SharedUniverse Softare on SharedUniverse.net in such a way that it can freely interoperate with other installations, thus making a true online SharedUniverse.

The following pages contain the philosophy, vision, guidelines, and requirements for the SharedUniverse online virtual world.