README in English: contribution rules and roadmap

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

README.md

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-# exitchatcontrol
+# Exit Chat Control
 
-Guide bilingue (FR / EN) pour échapper à **Chat Control** et reprendre sa souveraineté numérique : messagerie chiffrée, e-mail, VPN, DNS, 2FA, Linux, GrapheneOS, auto-hébergement, et bien plus. Chaque outil est présenté avec « à quoi ça sert », « pour qui », et « comment l'installer ».
+A free, bilingual (EN / FR) guide to escape **Chat Control** and take back control of your digital privacy: encrypted messaging, email, VPN, DNS, 2FA, Linux, GrapheneOS, self-hosting, and more. Every tool is presented with **what it does**, **who it's for**, and **how to install it**.
 
-## Contenu
+🔗 **Live site: https://exitchatcontrol.org**
 
-- **`index.html`** : le guide complet, un site web autonome (aucune dépendance, s'ouvre directement dans un navigateur).
+## What is this?
-- **`images/`** : captures d'écran à insérer dans le guide.
-- **`article-presse.md`** : article de presse actionnable, prêt à publier sur un blog, une newsletter ou en Article sur X.
 
-## Publication
+On 9 July 2026, the European Parliament let "Chat Control" through, opening the door to the scanning of private messages across the EU. This project is a practical, no-nonsense answer: a single, self-contained web page that references privacy-respecting tools anyone can use to opt out of mass surveillance, from the everyday citizen to the whistleblower.
 
-Site statique : dépose le dossier sur un hébergeur statique (Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages) ou sers `index.html` avec Caddy sur un VPS.
+It is intentionally simple: no tracking, no dependencies, no build step. Just open `index.html`.
 
-Domaine : https://exitchatcontrol.org
+## Repository
 
-## Licence
+- **`index.html`** — the full guide (a standalone website).
+- **`article-presse.md`** — a ready-to-publish, actionable article (for a blog, a newsletter, or an X Article).
+- **`images/`** — screenshots used in the guide.
 
-Voir le fichier `LICENSE`.
+## Contributing
+
+Contributions are very welcome. If you know a useful app that helps circumvent Chat Control or protect privacy, please **open a Pull Request** (or an Issue) to add it. **I review every submission personally.**
+
+To be accepted, an app must meet **three simple rules**:
+
+1. **It has traction** — an established, actively maintained project with a real user base, not an obscure or abandoned tool.
+2. **It is open source.**
+3. **It is privacy-respecting.**
+
+That's it. If it ticks those three boxes and genuinely helps people escape surveillance, it belongs here.
+
+**How to contribute:**
+- Fork the repo, add a tool card in `index.html` following the existing format (logo, "what it does", "why", "who it's for", install steps), then open a PR.
+- Not comfortable with code? Just open an Issue with the app's name, its link, and why it qualifies (traction + open source + privacy), and I'll add it.
+
+## Roadmap
+
+Right now, the goal is deliberately narrow: **reference useful apps to circumvent Chat Control**, on one clean, fast page.
+
+Later, the site will be refactored to support more:
+
+- Full written guides
+- Dedicated pages for each application
+- Step-by-step tutorials
+
+This single-page version is the foundation the rest will be built on.
+
+## Running it yourself
+
+It's a static site (one `index.html`, plus an `images/` folder). Host it on any static host (Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages) or serve it behind a reverse proxy. No build, no dependencies.
+
+## License
+
+See [`LICENSE`](./LICENSE).
+
+---
+
+*Privacy is a right, not a confession. To encrypt is to vote. To self-host is to disobey. To reclaim your tools is to become ungovernable.*