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The Mare Crisium Soviet Socialist Regency
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The Mare Crisium Soviet Socialist Regency (also known as "The Soviet")
is an ancient and prosperous circumlunar colony. It keeps ongoing close
relationships with the sister colonies Mare Serenitatis Circumlunar
Corporate Republic and Mare Tranquillitatis People's Circumlunar
Zaibatsu:
gopher://republic.circumlunar.space/
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/
The colony is organised in a Soviet (council), under the benevolent
supervision of The Union. All the members of the colony have equal
rights and contribute to the survival and wealth of the colony on a
voluntary basis, and according to their skills and inclinations. The
Union supervises the activities of the colony, ensuring that all its
members have adequate levels of resources to contribute to the survival
and wealth of the colony.
Each Soviet user has a personal space (called a "cell") where they can
keep their possessions and belongings while staying at the colony. The
gopher/gemini space of a user is the only stuff in a cell that must be
accessible by the entire galaxy. For the rest, any possession kept in a
user's cell is inaccessible to other members of the colony by default,
unless the user decides otherwise.
Principles
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The colony exists in the form of a pubnix, a public Unix system where
users share space and resources, federated with other pubnixes
administered by like-minded folks. The focus of The Soviet is on the
usage and development of minimalist free software (mainly for
command-line environments) and simple network protocols (including
gopher, gemini, finger, etc.), and on the publication of miscellaneous
material and content created by the colony members.
The colony is founded around the concept of "Small Internet":
gopher://republic.circumlunar.space/0/~spring/phlog/2019-01-18__Small_Internet_Manifesto.txt
gopher://republic.circumlunar.space/0/~katolaz/phlog/20190205_ecosystem.txt
which values quality over quantity and aims at bringing computing,
networking, and digitally-mediated relationships back to human-sized
levels.
The main inspiring principle of The Soviet is collaboration among colony
members, with the aim of sustaining the colony, helping other colony
members acquiring new knowledge and achieving their goals, further
developing the colony, and ultimately improving the quality of staying
for all its members. For this reason, The Soviet has no hierarchies or
grades: all members are equal, and contribute with humility and
dedication to the wealth of the colony, according to their skills,
temper, character, and inclinations.
All the software, documentation, tutorials, scripts, and tools developed
for The Soviet will be maintained in local shared git repos to which all
the colony members have write and commit rights by default. This makes
all the colony members of The Soviet equally responsible for and
committed to the maintenance and the development of the colony as a
whole.
The users of the Soviet feel themselves empowered by the responsibility
of caring for the colony, altogether, as a fellowship. No user of The
Soviet would ever act in a manner that could cause damage to The Soviet,
or that could harm any other user of The Soviet or of other sister
Circumlunar colonies, or that could put in danger the reputation and
good name of The Union.
Due to the limited amount of resources available, and to ensure that the
members of the colony can establish meaningful relationships with other
fellow members, the maximum number of colony members is set to 48.
To respect the privacy of the members of The Soviet, *none* of the
material present on The Soviet is ever backed up, with the only
exception of system files. Consequently, each user is responsible for
using a backup solution of their choice, if they wish so.
Civil Rights
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All the members of The Soviet are considered equal, irrespective of
their gender, age, ethnicity, socio-economic background, political
views, nationality, spoken language, religion (or lack thereof). The
members of the Soviet are considerate human beings who care for their
fellows. Any member of the Soviet can speak their mind freely, and
accepts that other members are allowed to do the same.
Soviet users have the civil right to ask for their belonging to the
colony to be terminated and their cell and all their possessions
destroyed. All such requests will be honoured by The Union without
further ado. Such requests are taken seriously. The termination of the
cell of a colony member is definitive and irreversible. Please consult
the FAQ (Q13)
Soviet users have the right to ask The Union to provide specific tools
or facilities they need for their daily activities and for the survival
and development of the colony. The Union will normally honour such
requests, unless they go openly against the collaborative and friendly
environment of the Soviet.
All the material produced by members of The Soviet is published under
their own responsibility. The Union reserves the right to remove
material that is deemed offensive, violent, derogative, or otherwise
illegal or dangerous. The Union reserves the right to suspend a colony
member responsible for the production of such material, and/or to
terminate their belonging to The Soviet without further ado.
The Union reserves the right to terminate the belonging of any user of
The Soviet that acts repeatedly and willingly against the inspiring
principles of the colony, as detailed above, and in particular of any
user that adopts offensive, derogative, aggressive, disrespectful, or
otherwise violent or inappropriate behaviours towards the members of the
wide circumlunar universe.
The Union reserves the right to disable or remove accounts that remain
unused and/or inactive for a log amount of time (more than one year),
but only if strictly needed due to scarcity of available accounts.
Resources
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All Soviet users have the same level of access to the programs and
facilities available within The Soviet, and each of them is assigned a
Basic Disk Quota (BDQ). The value of BDQ is identical for all the
Soviet users at any given point in time, and it is initially set to
100MB. However, the BDQ value on The Soviet depends on the level of
collaboration showed by the Soviet as a whole, in terms of participation
of the members to the life of the community, contribution of software
and documentation, publication of content, participation to the social
life within the broader family of circumlunar colonies, etc.
The Union will periodically revise the BDQ value, increasing it for all
the Soviet users as deemed necessary, but always on the basis of the
observed level of collective contribution to The Soviet. In any case and
at any given point in time, all the users on The Soviet will have
identical rights and will be assigned an identical amount of BDQ.
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:The Union:
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