Sayahna Foundation is a community of volunteers from all walks of life who believe in peaceful co-existence and collaboration to regain the lost trust and camaraderie amongst people rather than competing with fellow humans and nature. Aims of the community include:

• Set up and promote sustainable active communities across the world.
• Lead a chemical and pollution free life that respects everything in the planet and without misuse of resources.
• Identify, document, catalog, preserve in the form of digital objects and disseminate information about anything that enriches humanity, culture, heritage and history.
• Identify sustainable publishing models based on open standards, empower authors and engage in advancing free flow of knowledge to every needy citizen of the world.
• Initiate a new model of writing history of anything (culture, politics, fine arts, movies, language and literature, movements, . . . ) with as much public participation as possible in as many languages as possible.
• Identify and provide methods to overcome unnecessary barriers to immediate availability, access, and use of research articles.
• Pursue a publishing strategy that optimizes openness, quality, and integrity of the publication process.
• Empower the author by relieving from the forces of industry which is bent on closing knowledge to exploit public resources and author’s intellectual contribution.
• Deploy and use only free and open source software for all kinds of computing during publishing and delivery processes with reliance on open and publicly supported standards.