Organization

There are both Teams and Roles; Teams function to organize the work that is being done, and Roles are meant to guide how the Teams should organize. Which Roles you take will depend on what skills and experience you have, and what is needed by the Team your are interested in participating. You can have multiple Roles in multiple Teams, if you are able to keep up with the workload.

Teams

There are currently two Teams, but if needs arise, we may create more later, or possible split up existing teams to spread the workload better.

R&D : Research and Documentation

The main goal of the R&D Team is to create the Documentation you are currently reading, and to inform the direction of the Development Team. Let's push the boundaries of what it means for software to be friendly and usable! There's no way to know what needs to be worked on without testing of existing tools, and keeping notes on it. But additionally, what we are able to share with the world, is what we have written here, in the wiki.

Development

The Development Team is for developing software solutions to software problems! We will need designers, artists, writers, translators, and of course, coders, to make this possible. Good software should adhere as much as possible to the goals laid out in Operations. Let's try to make our work as modular as we can. We want to be able to work in parallel as much as possible to get things done quickly, but we don't want spaghetti code. Cooperation is important! If you're working on something you think might affect what someone else is doing, ask them about it and make sure your not going to step on each others toes.