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    Who owns FAF and how is the organisation structured?

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    • Brutus5000B
      Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin
      last edited by Brutus5000

      FAF basically can be seen from three perspectives:


      The community (+ content)
      The community is of coursed not owned by anybody. However we have organized the work in dedicated teams, with each team having a dedicated team leader. The list of teams, leaders, their mission statements and way of workings can be found in the here.

      The content of the community (maps & mods in particular) are owned by the particular creators. The legal entity is only hosting it.

      The community live takes place mostly in

      • the IRC chat access by the client (or any other IRC tool)
      • the forum
      • the official Discord server

      We also have some dedicated places to meet, e.g.

      • Zulip (invite only, contact a moderator or forum admin to get access)
      • Map & Mods discord
      • AI dev discord
      • Nomads discord
      • and some others

      The open source project
      The open source project runs on Github. As the name implies it's free software, to be used by everybody.


      Operations
      FAF operates legally as registered association "Forged Alliance Forever" in Denmark. This association consists of members of our community (and is open for all). The association elects a board that represents FAF officially.

      The legal entity operates the infrastructure for FAF (domains, servers, 3rd party services...) and owns the data on the servers.

      However, all work (server admins, developers, supporters) is done by volunteers in their free time.

      He said, "I've been to the year 3000
      Not much has changed, but they live underwater
      And your great-great-great-granddaughter
      Is playin' FAF, playin' FAF"

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      • The_JanitorT
        The_Janitor
        last edited by

        What is "Zulip" about?

        Secure the kill and send it off.

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        • J
          JazzFunkNoob
          last edited by

          It's where the productive discussion and development happens. No trolling/shitposting like on faf discord. That's why I'm not posting there 😄

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          • L
            left_boy
            last edited by

            https://forum.faforever.com/topic/1228/faf-association-preliminary-meeting

            Soon™️

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            • SpikeyNoobS
              SpikeyNoob Global Moderator
              last edited by

              @Brutus5000 Seems like this needs updating.

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              • Brutus5000B
                Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin
                last edited by

                Indeed.

                He said, "I've been to the year 3000
                Not much has changed, but they live underwater
                And your great-great-great-granddaughter
                Is playin' FAF, playin' FAF"

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