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- Contributions to our code is welcome.
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- Found a bug, got an improvement in mind? Let us know.
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- We would love to know if any of our project is being useful to you.
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- We would love to know if any of our projects is being useful to you.
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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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Computer science and software development has evolved dramatically the last decades,
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consistently posing new challenges. Overcoming such challenges opened new
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possibilities that had an enormous impact over our everyday lives.
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Still, computer science is seen by most users as some sort of black magic,
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that is better avoided than understood.
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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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On the other side of the field, despite the abundance interesting topics,
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institutes and commercial investments, oftentimes, research is 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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often seen as expensive by commercial entities and unnecessary by 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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@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ 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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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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taking into proper consideration every aspect and every challenge in
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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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