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title: DoubleFourteen
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menu_title: "The DoubleFourteen Code Forge"
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mobile_menu_title: "1414° Code Forge"
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date: 2021-06-15T00:40:51+02:00
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# Vision
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The DoubleFourteen Code Forge is an effort to promote synergy between developers
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and researchers, in order to promote good development practices,
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improve the software landscape and share common views and ethics.
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With hope to form a collaborative community made of competent
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individuals, practitioners, and researchers, working together and benefitting
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from each other's skills and inputs.
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# Raison d'être
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Computer science and software development has evolved dramatically crucial in the last decades
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for technological advancement and scientific research, consistently posing
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new challenges and offering new possibilities to us all.
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Facing such challenges and opening new applicative fields had an enormous impact
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over our lives as we can testify every day.
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Despite the abundance of application fields, research institutes and commercial
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investments, oftentimes, topics and development practices are heavily
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conditioned by external factors -- such as commercial interest,
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nation-wide infrastructures, bureaucracy, budget choices, academic interest,
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knowledge availability. Similar constraints apply to development time --
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often seen as expensive by commercial entities and unnecessary to research
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institutes, to the point of settling for quick prototypes that slowly but
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surely become the definitive implementation.
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As a matter of fact, computer science exhibits an uncanny dichotomy between
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theory and actual practice, whereas theory is often forgotten or
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ridiculed by practitioners and practical implementation is seen as a
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pesky and forgettable detail by researchers.
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The DoubleFourteen Code Forge is an attempt to provide an international
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and diverse community to hoist and support any individual or group in their
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own research or development interest, providing an ecosystem where such
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limitations are absent or minimal.
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We strive to enact an alternative setup where researchers and developers
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may directly communicate with each other and understand the value of
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taking into proper consideration every aspect and every challenge of the
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computer science, creating premises for new innovative techniques.
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Where the only constraints are imposed by skill, motivation, imagination and
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perseverance in reaching our goals and improving ourselves.
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Our community sole focus is raising the quality of the software world
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and raise awareness on computer science, by spreading the results of our work.
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Everyone is welcome to submit projects, take on research on their topic of
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interest, or offer support. Everyone is encouraged to contribute and share
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knowledge, as the more knowledge we share, the more contributions we can offer.
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# Fundamental principles
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The DoubleFourteen Code Forge is intended to be equally useful for
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scientists and the collectivity as a whole. We should never forget that the
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knowledge we produce and the code we write should be oriented to improving our
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lives, our society and raise scientific awareness to the general public.
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The following list summarizes the basic principles that everyone in the
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community is asked to agree on, in order to ensure our objectives and a
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productive environment.
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* We value research, code, experience, knowledge, and share them
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publicly. Believing that our efforts may be of better use when freely available
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to a wider audience, as opposed to confined to few privileged entities.
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* We promote ethical software and abhor restrictions to our Freedom. In no
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way ever shall we consciously suggest or endorse the use of any unethical
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software or service akin that ultimately results in:
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- mistreating users or developers;
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- violating the users' or developers' privacy or silently collecting their
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data;
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- severing the right to understand, learn, verify, modify or improve the
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original source code;
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- denying full control over the computing instruments;
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- tying the user or developer to a single software or service, constraining
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their freedom of choice.
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* We place mutual respect at the foundation of our community.
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* We believe in civilized debate. Personal offences and discrimination targeted
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to us or others alike, in any public or private form, are incompatible
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with our community. Any viable action shall be taken to condemn and eradicate
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such behaviour and make our environment cleaner.
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* We firmly reject any misrepresentation of work.
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Our community as a whole is but a mean for each individual to fully express
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their potential in any useful way they are most proficient with.
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As such, every single effort is to be duly credited, fairly and transparently.
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* We regard independence as a vital premise to ensure the impartiality
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of our work.
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* We never compromise over quality, our work is our art and pride.
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* We keep any social, political, religious or idealistic conviction to our
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personal individual relational sphere. Our community as a whole is neutral and
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refuses to take any stance or action whatsoever over matters extraneous to
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objective scientific debate on software development and computer science.
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* We encourage any benevolent participation to our community, by actively
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extending ourselves to rule out any obstacle in its actuation.
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* We offer support to any project or initiative compatible with our
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principles and goals.
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* We are eager to learn, grateful to teach, motivated in our work.
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