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title: The concept and team
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author: someone
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abstract: some abstract
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## Mission
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At robur we to develop robust digital infrastructure. We achieve this goal
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by continuous maintainence of permissively licensed (MIT/ISC/BSD) open
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source libraries, which are used by various partners and supporters.
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Robur is a non-profit endeavour that strives to enable more people to run their own digital
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infrastructure. Minimising the executable size of services and cutting down
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complexity is crucial to help people to understand the technology.
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Rewards (in terms of shirts, money, stickers, hardware, retreats) for
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contributors of the open source community are part of the funding plan.
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Academic papers and talks at workshops and technical conferences will be
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written to document the development and deployment of the technology.
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The annual balance will be opened for the public to satisfy transparency what
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donations and funding is used for.
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## Non-profit company
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Supporters can make charitable donations to robur, which will be used for
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further development and maintainence of software and community infrastructure.
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Partners can contract robur to develop prototypes (see example
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[projects](/Projects)). Developed libraries are open sourced under a
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permissive license if possible, to be reusable by other interested parties.
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The application code itself is exclusively owned by the funding partner.
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Examples include branding, configuration and the concrete composition of libraries.
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Negotiable terms include time-limited exclusively licenses, service level
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agreements (on-call troubleshooting, running infrastructure, updates), early
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access on new development, influencing on the development roadmap.
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## Team
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### Alfred
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Alfred is a research associate at University of Cambridge. He enjoys to write
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code, and also travelling and repairing his recumbent bicycle, and being a
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barista.
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Alfred did his PhD in computer science about formal verification of
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imperative code (using a higher-order separation logic and the theorem prover
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Coq). At the moment he is working on an executable formal model of
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TCP/IP which can act as a test validator.
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Alfred co-authored a TLS implementation from the grounds up in OCaml.
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### Eva
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Eva is an infrastructure software engineer and a researcher.
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She studied Applied Computer Science in the Natural Sciences, and developed a typechecker for a compiler of a language for optimization problems. In her PhD project she developed metrics to compare forest data structures, with an application in molecular structure comparison. Working as a postdoc in cancer research on molecular structure prediction, she found her way to Brooklyn and Berlin.
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In the US tech industry, she works on infrastucture problems with distributed systems on a large scale with millions of users, developing API infrastructure and search infrastructure, with a focus on stateless systems.
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Her Erdős number is 4.
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## Contact
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If you want to get in contact with us, write an email to us AT robur DOT io.
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