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Welcome to the Better Angels wiki!

The Better Angels is a loose-knit collective of collaborators spanning numerous issue areas. Although we don’t all share the exact same politics, we’ve come together as one group because we all agree that more has to be done to support communities of people whom the current system fails, regardless of whether that failure is deliberate or not. Our projects are realizations of a process we call "software development as direct action" efforts, which aim to design and implement free software that has the maximum social impact with the minimum lines of code, as quickly as possible.

Learn more about how we work and about Direct Action Software Development, by watching this short video.

Here are a few good starting points for folks who want to learn more about us and our work, or who want to collaborate and get in touch with us:

• The Basics
• Our Projects
• Contact the Collective

The Basics

• Check out our homepage.
• Watch some of our conference presentations, videos, and interviews.
• Browse the rest of this wiki to learn more about our current efforts.

Our Projects

• Buoy - an emergency communication system (ECS) designed from the ground-up as a community-based, independent alternative to State-run emergency response and crisis management systems (i.e., government EMIS/CMIS tools). Learn more about Buoy.

Contact the Collective

• Drop in to our chat room. This is a great place to go for general help, to ask questions, or just to say hi.
• Email us at BetterAngels@riseup.net
• Use the collective's PGP key: 6121 4D68 E0E3 54AA DE65 3B15 6FAE 063A 2F94 2A02
• Verifiable at https://betterangels.github.io/ at the bottom of the page.