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"Men are unemployed, not because there is no useful work to do, but because a profit cannot at the moment be made from that work. There is always a job to do in a community just as there is always a job to do in the home."
- Tom Brown, Syndicalism
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5Sight Development is a collective of independent developers and the users of their software, sharing resources and collaborating to produce professional quality software without the uncertainties and hassles of venture funding. 5Sight membership is open to anyone, with (once the organizational aspects are finalized and we incorporate the Collective) non-Developer members paying a modest membership fee for access to pre-release software, support and a voice in developement decisions.
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5Sight Projects
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Links
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These are the projects already begun or launched by 5Sight Development. As 5Sight is still forming and the organizational structure hasn't been finalized, some material on these pages may change without notice:
ReOS, version 1.0.1a0: a community Open-Sourcing of the Be operating system
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5Sight Supporters
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Sponsors
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While we're organizing 5Sight the following people and organizations are providing support and sponsorship for the Collective:
- CLIQ Services Cooperative - an Oakland, California, based consulting company and Internet Service Provider; CLIQ is providing free hosting to 5Sight and at-cost DSL to active Developers who reside in their coverage area (basically, the San Francisco Bay area)
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Accessing the Collective Forum
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three ways
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You have a choice of three differents methods by which to access 5Sight's Forum, differing primarily by how much work you have to do to prepare it and by how much security and privacy they offer you (to use the second two methods, you will need to configure your computer to use the OpenNIC Domain Name System):
- Normal : using a normal domain name and a plaintext protocol; this method allows ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce to identify that you are reading this site, and allows anyone on the Net between you and the server to read your session as it happens
- OpenNIC : using an OpenNIC domain name and a plaintext protocol; this protects you from being identified by your DNS queries, but still allows anyone on the Net between you and the server to read your session
- OpenNIC/SSL : using an OpenNIC domain name and an encrypted session, for which you will need to install OpenNIC's Certifying Authority certificate in your browser, this method allows a sniffer to identify that you are using this server, but not what you are doing
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5Sight Development Collective
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Contact
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5Sight's goal is to develop community infrastructure technology projects without the aid of investment capital. 5Sight projects are funded by user membership fees and development grants; 5Sight software is made available to the public for use, free of charge, though source is only made available to Members. In this way, we aim to make the fruit of our efforts easy to acquire and use while at the same time enabling us to focus entirely on development without the distractions of having to make our livings elsewhere.
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5Sight is a collective venture; a collaboration between users and developers. All material produced by 5Sight Developers for the Collective is copyright by 5Sight Development Collective; please see the relevant LICENSE file for more information. These documents are © 2002.
last modified 2002-02-26
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