This is somewhere the Transition Tech team can draft a response to the [https://www.transitionnetwork.org/strategy-consultation Strategy Consultation] ([[Image(Draft TN strategy.pdf)]]), which was published on January 24, 2014 and which has a deadline of February 26, 2014.

== TTech Response to the Strategy Consultation ==

The Transition Network makes use of a lot of [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw Free / Libre Open Source Software], for example, [https://www.debian.org/ Debian] and [https://www.drupal.org/ Drupal] and we would like to see this commitment retained and further developed. We would love to be able to offer free alternatives to commercial applications (eg. !YouTube, !SoundCloud, Skype etc.) to ensure that Transition Initiaves and projects are not dependant on corporate services. Where new services are being developed, for example on-line learning courses we would like to see a commitment to try to use self hosted free applications (for example [https://moodle.org/ Moodle]) where ever possible.

Using and working with open source communities should have reciprocal benefits, for example switching from Google Maps to [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap] would reduce the Transition Network's dependency on a corporation and also help the !OpenStreetMap project as people in local initiatives assist in updating local maps.

=== Free / Libre Open Source Applications ===

* [http://etherpad.org/ Etherpad] Self-hosted, real-time collaborative documents.
* [http://ethercalc.net/ Ethercalc] Multi-user spreadsheet server.


== References ==

* [[Image(Draft TN strategy.pdf)]]
* [https://prism-break.org/en/ Prism Break]
* [http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-02/06/tim-berners-lee-reclaim-the-web Tim Berners-Lee: we need to re-decentralise the web]
* [https://www.transitionnetwork.org/stories/mark-watson/2012-10/transition-network-communications-web-project#comment-16003 Comments from Chris in 2012].