We the Users — the open drafting repo

A call to draft a Declaration of Internet Independence. Launched July 2, 2026 — the 250th anniversary of the day the Continental Congress voted for American independence. The site: https://wetheusers.ai

This repository is the drafting table. Every document here is a working draft — discussions and pull requests are welcome on any piece of this work: a word, a clause, a whole argument.

Repository layout

• docs/declaration/ — the provisional Declaration draft.
• docs/essay/ — the six essays making the public case, with their PDFs.
• docs/founding-brief.md (+ .pdf) — the founding brief: the full vision, the architecture, the hard questions, and the open decisions. Candid by design. Start here.
• docs/constitution/ — where the Covenant and the Code will be drafted (later phase).
• docs/outreach/ — the outreach packet.
• references/ — grounding research notes.
• source-notes/ — the founder's early typed working notes, preserved as provenance.
• server/ — moved to the website repo (July 2026): the site and its backend now live together, so the form and the API it calls version as one contract. Still open, still auditable — nothing is run in secret.
• deck/ — the launch deck and its build script.
• build/pdf/ — the document build pipeline: PDF generation and the version registry.
• CHANGELOG.md / VERSIONS.md — the narrative history and current document versions.

How to take up the pen

• Discussions — argue with any idea, or propose a new one.
• Pull requests — edit any document directly. The smallest useful edit is welcome.
• The site — read everything in one place, and add your name: https://wetheusers.ai

License

Documents: CC BY-SA 4.0 (LICENSE-DOCS). Code: Apache-2.0 (LICENSE-CODE). See NOTICE.