A Sense of Community

ClearCenter is actively involved in building a community around the benefits of open-source software in general and specifically, ClearOS. If that’s true - you may ask yourself - then where are the de-facto social networking tools to let communities communicate, create, share and collaborate like Forums, Wikis, source code repositories and blogs?

A Brief History

Prior to ClearCenter’s inception in X of 2008, the software, services, customers and many team members that represent the company today had an 8-year history under a previous company, Point Clark Networks Ltd. (PCNL). PCNL transitioned into ClearCenter, but the team recognized a once-in-a-company’s-lifetime opportunity to do something really unique with respect to the open-source code base for the OS (formerly ClarkConnect and now ClearOS). A Not-For-Profit organization was registered as the ClearFoundation. All copyright for ClearOS source-code was donated from ClearCenter to ClearFoundation. In doing so, the ClearCenter team believed that to foster and develop a community, an organization without influence of commercial motivation and with a clearly defined mission is both socially and morally the right thing to do.

The “Clear” Community

ClearCenter continues to invest heavily in the ClearFoundation. In some cases, ClearCenter employees spend up to 80% of their time working on ClearFoundation-related tasks:

• Writing code Fixing bugs
• Pushing out updates 
• Tracking upstream errata
• Posting to forums
• Participating in development meetings
• We would love for you to join ClearCenter via the ClearFoundation community and provide whatever contribution you or your organization can.
• Go to ClearFoundation