Structure

Tebibyte Media is composed of two distinct parts: the Network and the Project. The latter is made up of its staff and the infrastructure that supports it. The constituent projects and networks associated with the Project make up our Network. This distinction exists in order to maintain an appropriate separation between the Project's and members' interests and to preserve some of the heterogeneity of these communities.

Staff

Emma Tebibyte is the founder of the Project and the benevolent dictator for life of Tebibyte Media. The Network is designed with autonomy in mind so that the Project staff cannot abuse the power given to them.

Developers

Our developer team is responsible for hacking on and building the tooling the Project needs to facilitate the Project's continued functioning. Our only developer is Lilith.

Our editors are responsible for maintaining the weblog; editing submissions and coordinating with staff, Network representatives, and guest writers; and reading and approving Network applications. Our lead editor is Trinity and her team includes vista and thegoose.

Platform Managers

Our platform managers are responsible for the maintenance of the services hosted on Tebibyte Media's server (TebiBlog, Tebitea, and Matrix), as well as maintaining Network members' infrastructure when necessary. The standards by which the Project operates are managed by them as well. Our lead platform managers are mars and Emma, and their team includes sasha.

Tebibyte Media's raison d'être is its Network. Our goal as a Project is to foster the growth of that Network by extending connections of solidarity between individuals, projects, and other networks who share the values we believe are important in the digital age.

For more information regarding the specification of the Network as well as the current list of members, the benefits they enjoy, and their responsibilities, see our Network page.

History

Tebibyte Media was started in 2020 by Emma Tebibyte to create a community of technology-savvy individuals who shared faer values. Its original goal was to propagate free software values, which influenced its current purpose.

Today, Tebibyte Media is an aspiring group of free software and open-access enthusiasts who believe that all information should be free and publicly accessible. To that end, we promote, share, connect, and support like-minded developers, artists, writers, and creators whose work progresses toward this goal. Read more at our blog.

WTF is a Tebibyte?

A tebibyte is a unit of digital storage equal to 1099511627776 bytes. The confusion ensuing due to Microsoft Windows' usage of the SI prefixes instead of the proper IEC ones is documented on Wikipedia.

How is your site licensed?

The Tebibyte Media website is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The Tebibyte Media website is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with the Tebibyte Media website. See here for that copy. The source code is available here.

Who is your hosting provider?

The server hosting this site and its services is hosted on a Linode running Debian 11 with the Linux-libre kernel.

Special Thanks

Thank you to robotcritter for having been a wonderful member of the staff and for the support with the server. We couldn't have existed without your contributions. We wish you well at your job and look forward to seeing what Cyborg can become! ‹3

Thanks to classic5000 at Ortus Journal for giving me the reason I needed to create the Network!