Founding Principles
Statement of Purpose
Digital Scholar (DS) is dedicated to coordinating and promoting the development, production, distribution and use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) useful for academic, archival, and research purposes. Digital Scholar makes its software for free to the public to use, change, or distribute it as Free and Open Source Software. To fund the long term sustainability of these Open Source software projects, DS offers responsibly priced related services such as hosting, support, and additional development. Digital Scholar sees its mission as one of defending the right of the public to freely obtain, develop, and distribute the FOSS, and supporting other FOSS projects as they pursue sustainability.
Mission
Digital Scholar is dedicated to launching, supporting, and sustaining critical open-source infrastructure for the digital humanities through responsible stewardship and ethical business practices. In doing so, DS is devoted to defending the right of the public to freely obtain, develop, and distribute free and open source software, and to supporting FOSS projects as they pursue sustainability.
Vision
An environment where the open-source software that individuals and institutions rely upon for their research, publishing, and public engagement needs has a viable path to independence and sustainability.
Our Values
We are committed to developing and sustaining free and open source software that provides an infrastructure for scholarly research and digital cultural heritage work.
We are committed to working in a respectful and collaborative way among our project staff and with the community of users and developers who engage with our software.
We are committed to providing responsibly priced services that meet user community needs and contribute to the sustainability of the software projects.
We are committed to working in productive collaboration with other FOSS projects to pursue sustainability.
Adopted by the Digital Scholar Board on December 5, 2023.