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"One Beasty Boy's assertion eloquently summarizes my feelings about free software activism: "You gotta fight for your right to party". Public Enemy's call to arms in the title of the last song on their 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is just as pithy and even catchier: "Party For Your Right To Fight". In either case we know that two things are necessary: fighting for our rights and having fun! (Venn diagram left as an exercise to the reader.) To help the community to continue to do both, we are creating a new campaign entitled Libre Planet.
Because Libre Planet will be a campaign to help community, we hope to get as much input from the community as we can as we go about creating it. My first suggestion for Libre Planet will be to have a map with a meet-up system so that people can meet physically. To help get the ball rolling with other ideas I've been reaching out to active groups and individuals in the community to begin the brainstorming process.

Mitch Wiedemann of the Ithaca Free Software Association gave me several great ideas of what Libre Planet should be like. In particular, he suggested that it would be great to have a how-to from doing free software advocacy, and he was kind enough to share with me some suggestions for what should be in this how-to, they are:

• 1. You don’t need a big group to do free software advocacy on a local scale. Sometimes numbers help, but most of the time 1-3 people are plenty to staff a booth, give a presentation or correspond with local people and organizations.