(excerpted from Rochester Free-Net's Original Bylaws)
PURPOSE
The purpose of the organization shall be to form a reliable public access
educational electronic information system for the greater Rochester, New York
area with the cooperation of governments, businesses, educational institutions
and the public to:
- Provide electronic access to governmental and non-governmental public
information presently available only from diverse digital and non-digital
sources in the community;
- Provide computer telecommunications training and ongoing support for users
of the system;
- Provide equipment and training in its use to public libraries, public
schools and other public outlets at the discretion of the Board to enable easy
access to the system;
- Provide a source of lifelong learning without regard to age, educational
level or other barriers;
- Create and distribute tele-learning programs with access to educational
information in various fields without regard to time of day or distance from
the source;
- Bridge the social, economic and geographic barriers that keep persons from
sharing information;
- Furnish a means of fostering an on-line electronic community for the
greater Rochester, New York area with connections to local, state, national
and international sources of educational and informational electronic data;
- Make available a means of electronic information exchange between members
of the public and their elected representatives in all levels of government;
- Provide a reliable, private electronic mail system for the exchange of
information by and among users of the system and the world electronic
community;
- Collect, reproduce, catalog and distribute public domain and shareware
software; and
- Provide a public forum for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and experience
in the field of computer literacy at all levels of technical expertise.