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This is where the Better Angels draft documents, share knowledge, and work on expanding the reach and effectiveness of Better Angels project goals.
You are welcome to contribute by editing any of these pages to make changes ranging from fixing typos to proposing new projects.
The Better Angels are a team of core contributors mostly based in several of the United States and spanning numerous issue areas ranging from alternative mental health/medical response, to domestic violence survivor support, to police and prison abolitionists. 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. In the spirit of software development as direct action, we set out 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, a process we call Direct Action Software Development, by watching this short video:
Learn more about the Better Angels.
Buoy is a community-driven emergency dispatch and response technology. It is designed to connect people in crisis with trusted friends, family, and other nearby allies who can help. We believe that in situations where traditional emergency services are not available, reliable, trustworthy, or sufficient, communities can come together to aid each other in times of need.
These pages describe the Better Angels project vision and the tools built for realizing that vision. This content is drafted by people who care and hosted by GitHub. You can propose changes to these pages by creating a GitHub user account (if you don't already have one) and clicking the "Edit" button on a page you wish to edit.
All non-code contributions to any and all parts of the Better Angels project are hereby released to the public domain, no rights reserved. All contributions of software code are licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3.