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+title: DoubleFourteen
+menu_title: "The DoubleFourteen Code Forge"
+mobile_menu_title: "1414° Code Forge"
+date: 2021-06-15T00:40:51+02:00
+---
+
+# Vision
+
+The DoubleFourteen Code Forge is an effort to promote synergy between developers
+and researchers, in order to promote good development practices,
+improve the software landscape and share common views and ethics.
+With hope to form a collaborative community made of competent
+individuals, practitioners, and researchers, working together and benefitting
+from each other's skills and inputs.
+
+# Raison d'être
+
+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
+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
+institutes, to the point of settling for quick prototypes that slowly but
+surely become the definitive implementation.
+
+As a matter of fact, computer science exhibits an uncanny dichotomy between
+theory and actual practice, whereas theory is often forgotten or
+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
+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
+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.
+
+Our community sole focus is raising the quality of the software world
+and raise awareness on computer science, by spreading the results of our work.
+Everyone is welcome to submit projects, take on research on their topic of
+interest, or offer support. Everyone is encouraged to contribute and share
+knowledge, as the more knowledge we share, the more contributions we can offer.
+
+# Fundamental principles
+
+The DoubleFourteen Code Forge is intended to be equally useful for
+scientists and the collectivity as a whole. We should never forget that the
+knowledge we produce and the code we write should be oriented to improving our
+lives, our society and raise scientific awareness to the general public.
+The following list summarizes the basic principles that everyone in the
+community is asked to agree on, in order to ensure our objectives and a
+productive environment.
+
+* We value research, code, experience, knowledge, and share them
+publicly. Believing that our efforts may be of better use when freely available
+to a wider audience, as opposed to confined to few privileged entities.
+
+* We promote ethical software and abhor restrictions to our Freedom. In no
+way ever shall we consciously suggest or endorse the use of any unethical
+software or service akin that ultimately results in:
+    - mistreating users or developers;
+    - violating the users' or developers' privacy or silently collecting their
+      data;
+    - severing the right to understand, learn, verify, modify or improve the
+      original source code;
+    - denying full control over the computing instruments;
+    - tying the user or developer to a single software or service, constraining
+      their freedom of choice.
+
+* We place mutual respect at the foundation of our community.
+
+* We believe in civilized debate. Personal offences and discrimination targeted
+to us or others alike, in any public or private form, are incompatible
+with our community. Any viable action shall be taken to condemn and eradicate
+such behaviour and make our environment cleaner.
+
+* We firmly reject any misrepresentation of work.
+Our community as a whole is but a mean for each individual to fully express
+their potential in any useful way they are most proficient with.
+As such, every single effort is to be duly credited, fairly and transparently.
+
+* We regard independence as a vital premise to ensure the impartiality
+of our work.
+
+* We never compromise over quality, our work is our art and pride.
+
+* We keep any social, political, religious or idealistic conviction to our
+personal individual relational sphere. Our community as a whole is neutral and
+refuses to take any stance or action whatsoever over matters extraneous to
+objective scientific debate on software development and computer science.
+
+* We encourage any benevolent participation to our community, by actively
+extending ourselves to rule out any obstacle in its actuation.
+
+* We offer support to any project or initiative compatible with our
+principles and goals.
+
+* We are eager to learn, grateful to teach, motivated in our work.