Editing Ends and Means (section)

==Introduction==
An introduction to the Free Network Movement, and an overview of the key points contained in this document.

*The Free Network Movement aims to promote the free and equitable transmission of information in data networks.

*The FNM is accomplishing this aim by designing, specifying, and stewarding the emergence of telecommunications infrastructure that is owned and operated cooperatively, by those that use it - rather than by for-profit and state actors.

*The architecture of the Free Network enables information exchange that is ''materially'', rather than ''logically'', peer-to-peer. We call this architecture ''fractal mesh''.

*The Free Network will be immune to censorship and resistant to breakdown - it is highly distributed and capable of operating independently of existing infrastructure.

*The FNM is part of a global movement towards ''digital self-determination''. It contributes to, and draws from, free software projects from around the world.

*The Free Network technology stack will precipitate an array of inventive commerical applications. Its political and social import is such that it necessitates a non-profit stewardship entity whose organizational process is driven by consensus.

*The Free Network Foundation is registered as a Missouri non-profit corporation, and has submitted IRS form 1023, the application for tax-exempt status as a public charity under section 501c(3).

*We intend to raise $50,000 in our first capital campaign, for the purposes of prototyping and demonstrating a free network.