OpenESF.net is a platform for participatory social activism provided by the European Social Forum Preparatory Assembly.

Whether your group is an organisation, a network, an ad hoc group preparing an activity for Malmo ESF 2008 or Istanbul ESF2010, or promoting a proposal for social transformation, OpenESF.net can help you work collectively.

OpenESF.net also helps your intercommunication with many other participants and groups in the ESF all working under the Charter of Principles of Social Forums .

OpenESF is about making European Social Forum a continuous process.

With collaborative wiki pages and other tools within “projects”, you and your group can:

• Present your cause in the project home page

• Collaborate on writing documents with the wiki

• Publish news in the project blog

• Create and use mailing lists for the project team or a for a wider participant circle

• Store and share files

• Share to-do lists

• Upload photos

• Contact people and other projects

• Each project space has their own path (I.e: www.openesf.net/ProjectName)

• and more…

OpenESF.net promotes the open space philosophy. By default its pages and contents are public and open to every person working for another Europe and a better world; however each project hosted in the ESFOpen tool has the option to restrict its space only to its participants.

OpenESF.net promotes the Copyleft. The contents of the Open ESF are licensed under Creative Common Share Alike Licence unless a specific document specifies another licence.

If you need something else or you have any suggestion or question, please let us know . OpenESF.net is using a fast evolving software platform called OpenCore developed by The Open Planning Project.

Openesf.net is moderated by the webteam according to the Moderation Guidelines agreed by the European Preparatory Assembly of the ESF. You can report a content not compatible with the Guidelines at:

If you are a developer who wants to get involved, visit xxxxxx

About the European Social Forum and the European Preparatory Assembly

The European Social Forum (ESF) is the main meeting point of the global movement In Europe and it is part of the Social Forum process, started in Porto Alegre in 2001. The first ESF took place in Florence - 2002, second in Paris - 2003, third in London - 2004 and five in Athens - 2006. The European Preparatory Meeting (EPA) is the open assembly in charge of providing the forum. The EPA Is composed by several working groups and european networks. The European Preparatory Meeting is organizing the sixth ESF to take place in Malmo in September - 2008. (TO BE INCLUDED A LINK TO EACH OF THE ESF EVENT PAGES)