diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md index 17d5d18..5856626 100644 --- a/content/_index.md +++ b/content/_index.md @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Our source code repository is accessible at: {{% div style="text-align:left" %}} - Contributions to our code is welcome. - Found a bug, got an improvement in mind? Let us know. -- We would love to know if any of our project is being useful to you. +- We would love to know if any of our projects is being useful to you. {{% /div %}} {{% /div %}} diff --git a/content/doublefourteen/index.en.md b/content/doublefourteen/index.en.md index 414cc79..efe2f0c 100644 --- a/content/doublefourteen/index.en.md +++ b/content/doublefourteen/index.en.md @@ -16,18 +16,18 @@ from each other's skills and inputs. # Raison d'ĂȘtre -Computer science and software development has evolved dramatically crucial in the last decades -for technological advancement and scientific research, consistently posing -new challenges and offering new possibilities to us all. -Facing such challenges and opening new applicative fields had an enormous impact -over our lives as we can testify every day. - -Despite the abundance of application fields, research institutes and commercial -investments, oftentimes, topics and development practices are heavily +Computer science and software development has evolved dramatically the last decades, +consistently posing new challenges. Overcoming such challenges opened new +possibilities that had an enormous impact over our everyday lives. +Still, computer science is seen by most users as some sort of black magic, +that is better avoided than understood. + +On the other side of the field, despite the abundance interesting topics, +institutes and commercial investments, oftentimes, research is heavily conditioned by external factors -- such as commercial interest, nation-wide infrastructures, bureaucracy, budget choices, academic interest, knowledge availability. Similar constraints apply to development time -- -often seen as expensive by commercial entities and unnecessary to research +often seen as expensive by commercial entities and unnecessary by research institutes, to the point of settling for quick prototypes that slowly but surely become the definitive implementation. @@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ ridiculed by practitioners and practical implementation is seen as a pesky and forgettable detail by researchers. The DoubleFourteen Code Forge is an attempt to provide an international -and diverse community to hoist and support any individual or group in their +and diverse community, to hoist and support any individual or group in their own research or development interest, providing an ecosystem where such limitations are absent or minimal. We strive to enact an alternative setup where researchers and developers may directly communicate with each other and understand the value of -taking into proper consideration every aspect and every challenge of the +taking into proper consideration every aspect and every challenge in computer science, creating premises for new innovative techniques. Where the only constraints are imposed by skill, motivation, imagination and perseverance in reaching our goals and improving ourselves.