About Team
Epheket is an assocation of individuals who have made common cause to create some Free Software for everyone,
which members are from all over the world. We like to promote a community spirit amongst those who contribute to and
use our software. Years of practise and gained experience let us introduce you as good as it is possible applications.
Ambitious members of our crew will help you with a pleasure, to solve any kind of problem. We want to introduce our offer
and give you opportunity to get familiar with it.
We think that world of computers is not going exactly in right direction. Our mission is to promote reliable, safe,
fast and generally well designed and implemented software. It will help people to avoid crashes, data loss, viruses, trojans,
and other effects of security vulnerabilities. We would like to make people trust software they are using. We are going also
to convince programmers to optimize their code, use proper algorithms, design patterns, error handling and obey standards.
Our point of view and other concepts highly relay on Free Software and Open Source Software. It gives people possibility
to study the code, find security holes, and generally trust it. Since we use a lot of this kind of utilities we generally promote
and support this community.
Every user has work they need to do. Epheket goal is to design and develop tools and software that allow users to do
that work as efficient as possible. Our work should help users to appreciate the richness of free software community
and the flexibility of free software. This is only possible when software is designed to reflect and transmit users willings,
and leave the possibilites open as to the final form of the source code.
- We want to help both - advanced users and those who aren't computer experts.
- Our goal is to solve each, even hardest reported problem.
- High quality of our products is most important thing for us, we always do everything with this idea in mind.
Donate to the Epheket Team
In order to promote our goals, we need more people involved in and engaged with us and our projects. Not everyone
has the time to participate in project activities like testing, bug fixing, evangelism; by donating you can not only support
current activities but can also help determine which activities we undertake in the future. By soliciting donations and providing
ways for you to indicate your preferences as to how those donations might be used, we learn what activities and projects you want
to support, and we can match that support accordingly. In general, we devotes its resources to promoting openness, innovation and
opportunity on the Internet in ways that will benefit everyone. Your donations will not only enable us to continue our current
activities that support these goals, but will also allow us to develop new programs that will support the community.
You can make a donation to support the overall efforts of the Epheket Team and our projects. If you have a major
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Epheket Constitution
1. Introduction
This constitution has been written by the Epheket Administrators and defines how team is to be governed. All team
members accept the rules as laid out by this constitution and other documents.
When we speak about software, we usually mean computer program. We believe that documentation should be treated identically as
long as it is primarily concerned with technical issues. However we consider documentation as something distinct from programs.
2. Our software will remain 100% free
We promise that our software will entirely be free and open source as defined by the GNU Project. Users should have the freedom
to run the program, for any purphose, study how does it work, redistribute copies and release improovements to the public. All our
software will always be open and "free" in the full sense of the word.
3. Our priorities are our users and free software
Our projects are deeply concerned with the usability and security. We will be guided by the needs of our software community and users.
We will place their interests first in our priorities and support their needs for operation in many different kinds of computing environments.
At all times we do our best to keep hype and propaganda to a minimum and try to deliver high quality work that is suitable for use by beginners
and computer experts alike. We will not object to non-free works that are intended to be used with our software and/or service, or attempt to
charge a fee to people who create or use such works.
4. We will not hide problems
We will keep our entire bug report database open for public view all the times. Reports that people file online will promptly became
visible to others. We will not discuss issues in private conversations and no decision will be made privately. However, short delays
are acceptable when sensitive information or security concerns are involved. Exceptions are made when we receive security-related or developer
relations information with the request not to publicize before a certain deadline.
5. Only true Internet projects
Our software are true Internet projects in the utmost sense of the word. All development is open and is discussed and published on
the Internet. Communication takes place on our IRC channel.
6. We support the GNU philosophy
We strongly believe in the GNU Philosophy and we will support the GNU Project. For instance, we require that our team members use proper
wording and avoid common misconceptions.
7. Works that do not meet our free software standards
We acknowledge that some of our users may require the use of works that do not conform to this document but we have not prepared any `non-free`
area for these works. Although non-free works are not a part of Epheket projects, we support their use and provide infrastructure for them.
8. Slacker marks
To ensure that the members stay active, the chosen model says that if a member (or their appointed proxy) fails to show up for two meetings
or one month, they are marked as a slacker. If a member who has been marked as a slacker misses any further meeting, or still does not show up for
one month, they lose their position in team. The exception are constitutive members.
9. Constitutive members
The social structures and community processes of Epheket are supervised by the Constitutive Members. It is the council that approves the creation
of a new team or project, and appointment of projects leaders. In addition, Constitutive Members are the body responsible for the Constitution,
Code of Conduct and other documents and tasked with ensuring that maintainers and other community members follow its guidelines.
Constitutive Members who violate the rules laid out by this constitution or other documents will be immediately suspended from council while being
investigated and the ones who are found guilty may be removed. Constitutive Member can be dismissed only by a vote of council, requiring their unanimity.
Council Members who are being considered to be dismissed can not have a vote in this matter.
10. We work as limited democracy
If one of us disagrees with another on a decision about team or projects and given that communicates in a reasonable time-span, a vote
requiring the absolute majority (51%) will be held among the active members of our group with at least one year seniority. All decisions
must conform to this document.
This Constitution can be amended only by a vote at the absolute majority (51%), requiring unanimity of the Constitutive Members.
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