Thank you @nilesh for reaching out to IFF. To explain a bit of our thinking –
Our values emerge from a community oriented and transparent feedback culture. This becomes more important prior to stepping into a new area of work. Here, we wanted to invite feedback from IFF Members, forum members and the broader public sphere. It’s our shared belief that this will also help improve outcomes with a diversity of views and inputs from people more experienced in community based technology development.
It picks up from a prior conversation on technical projects that can benefit internet users. Now, rather than straight away, building tech, we are thinking how best we can compliment existing projects is by using our policy expertise. This will compliment our values for preventing concentration of market power in a few technology firms and protecting digital rights.
The last bullet specifically as listed by Nilesh on the criteria for the default listing, the rules and governance process is somewhat complex. Here IFF would love to hear more all of you. We are eager to provide support and design a framework that can help people discover alternatives to dominant web services that undermine user rights and are built off proprietary standards.
At the very least – everyone needs a good alternative and is searching for recommendations to popular web tools!