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The "Blackbox Center" is the non-profit voluntarily association dedicated to the mission, the vision and the values of Blackbox Center. Today, it is a de facto | The "Blackbox Center" is the non-profit voluntarily association dedicated to the mission, the vision and the values of Blackbox Center. Today, it is a de facto [http://forum.blackboxframework.org board] of self-organized BlackBox developers, users and potential project managers. In the future, it could be necessary to transform the Center to a single entity, in order to provide better legacy basis for framework support, accumulation of donations and limitation of potential legal exposure of single project members. The members spearhead projects that, through a collaborative and meritocratic development process deliver enterprise-grade freely available software products that attract large communities of users. We operate under [BSD 2-clause license] to deploy our product to make it easy for commercial and individual usage. | ||
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Revision as of 16:50, 20 November 2013
The "Blackbox Center" is the non-profit voluntarily association dedicated to the mission, the vision and the values of Blackbox Center. Today, it is a de facto board of self-organized BlackBox developers, users and potential project managers. In the future, it could be necessary to transform the Center to a single entity, in order to provide better legacy basis for framework support, accumulation of donations and limitation of potential legal exposure of single project members. The members spearhead projects that, through a collaborative and meritocratic development process deliver enterprise-grade freely available software products that attract large communities of users. We operate under [BSD 2-clause license] to deploy our product to make it easy for commercial and individual usage.
Vision
The mission of the Blackbox Center is to provide software for the public good, based on the spirit, philosophy and technology put forth by Nicklaus Wirth and Jörg Gutknecht in the Project Oberon (the "Oberon Spirit". We do this by keeping alive, adapting and developing Component Pascal, Blackbox Framework and Blackbox Component Builder starting with the last official release (V 1.6) provided by Oberon Microsystems AG (the "software") and growing and maintaining an international user community.
Center mission
To maintain stable versions of BlackBox Component Builder, provide it's distribution and promotion.
To maintain means:
- regularly (period?) publish new versions of the BlackBox Component Builder;
- support the international BlackBox open-source community;
- adapt the BlackBox Component Builder to modern challenges.
Center rules
1. The decisions about "center" and BlackBox Component Builder are made by voting
2. Voting quorum is 80%
3. The application about new membership in the "center" approved by voting with preliminary minimum of X days discussion. For the discussion applicant should give information about it self in the form of motivation essay: a self introduction, why he wants to join, what his current affiliation is, what his relationship to BlackBox Component Builder is.
Center tasks
- to make first version version with all known bugfixes