Let's learn from the past mistakes... Today's video-platforms, such as Google's YouTube, Facebook Videos or Vimeo:

○ Have a non-transparent closed-source code. No one but their NDA-binded employees can go "under the hood" to watch out for non-ethical code;

○ Centralize our data and attention. Their advertisement-based economic model can only be fed by our privacy.

○ Imply huge technical infrastructures. Their centralized video-hosting model can only be sustained by big companies. That's how they get to impose us their terms and conditions.

PeerTube is already (and legally) all yours!

We are not making our video-platform: we are creating a tool for anyone to make their own! The Free-Libre software licence attached to PeerTube is a legally-biding open contract. It allows anyone to use, study, adapt and contribute to PeerTube.

PeerTube gives you (or your community) the opportunity to host your own video-tube. You can emancipate yourself from data-centralizing and attention-craving platforms, without becoming another isolated video-website lost on the web.

If you host, you rule: PeerTube Instances hosters can choose their own terms and conditions, moderation management, federations settings (what other PeerTube instances you choose to follow), etc. But remember: with great power comes great responsibilities!

If we have proven that PeerTube works fine, it still needs to grow into its full potential.

20 000 € goal: PeerTube v1, clean and simple

(note: €20 000 ~ 23 450 USD)

With your help, we can get PeerTube to its first stable release, its v1, planned for October, 2018. You will finance the development of:

○ Interface localization, to support multiple languages;

○ Video subtitles, to facilitate video accessibility for diverse audiences;

○ RSS feeds, to follow instances, users and channels through RSS protocol;

○ Video import from URL (YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, etc.) or torrent file;

○ Improved and advanced search feature;

○ Software stability (bug fixes) and scalability.

Moreover, you can help us get this alternative known all over the world by sharing this page and inviting people to #JoinPeertube!

45 000 € stretch goal: PeerTube Deluxe v1

(note: €45 000 ~ 52 800 USD)

There are important features we dream of including into the v1. We hope you will contribute so far as to helping us finance:

○ Video redundancy (to share bandwidth between instances or as fallback if the original instance is down)

○ Subscriptions to users & channels throughout the federation (for users to subscribe to whatever they want regardless of their instance federation settings)

75 000 € stretch goal: let's pave the road to v2!

(note: €75 000 ~ 88 000 USD)

PeerTube isn't a quick and easy fix to data-centralization through video platforms. It's an alternative that will grow and emancipate internet users on the long run. At this point, your contributions will help us:

○ Finance the development of a webapp that will be available on Android and iOS app stores;

○ Contribute to the ActivityPub community. ActivityPub is the groundbreaking federation protocol that runs PeerTube's federation and also Mastodon's (a federated Twitter alternative);

○ Secure PeerTube's lead developer employment after the V1 release (oct. 2018);

○ Pave the road to V2, where our priority will be a plugin system to facilitate the development of personnalized features and displays.

We don't aim to make a profit out of PeerTube: we just want a sensible and practical YouTube alternative to come true, and be available for anyone.

Here is how we plan to spend the money you will contribute to this project

○ 60 % on development and technical fees;

○ 20 % on community outreach;

• 15 % on communication (videos, websites, etc.);

• 5 % on contribution to the federation (ActivityPub, helping other instances, etc.);

○ 10 % on project coordination and logistics;

○ 10 % on banking and crowdfunding fees.

We are Framasoft, a French non-profit

Framasoft is a small French non profit of 35 members, including 8 employees. We define ourselves as "a bunch of friends who want to change the world, one byte at a time."

Since 2004, we have been promoting Free-Libre software and its culture through practical and useful projects: Free-Libre Software directory and USB keys, a blog and a publishing house, etc.

Between 2014-2017 we raised awareness on data-centralization by big data companies with our De-google-ify the Internet campaign.

We showed that Free-Libre software-based services are an ethical alternative by hosting (and contributing to) 32 alternative solutions to services like Twitter, Skype, WeTransfer, Facebook, GoogleDocs and even Minecraft!

From 2017 to 2020, our roadmap is called Contributopia, and we aim to create alternatives thought "out of big data's box", facilitate the hosting and spreading of ethical web services, and help the digital lives of anyone who wants a contributors' society.

We are financed at 95% through individual donations (the 5% left being T-shirt and book sales).

PeerTube, a free and federated video platform