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layout: post
title: "Welcome to Ribose Open!"
date: 2018-07-31 00:00:00
categories: ribose-open
featured: true
author:
name: Anton Strogonoff
email: [email protected]
excerpt: >-
Ribose is launching Ribose Open,
a network of sites dedicated to advancing its contributions to the industry
in the form of open-source software and specifications.
---

== What is Ribose?

Ribose is a collaboration platform that focuses on security,
and is designed with regulated industries
and users subject to stricter security requirements in mind.

== What is Ribose Open?

Like many others in the industry, at Ribose we choose to give back
by making reusable and open-sourcing components we use internally
(such as Riffol [TBD link], our Rust-based init system).
Since TBD, we also practice OSS-first approach, designing software
and specifications to be open from the beginning
(TBD is an example of a project developed that way).

Perhaps somewhat differently from many others, we don’t open just the source code
of the software we develop, but also specifications, which we believe deserve
as much attention.
(At a level higher, Metanorma [TBD link] is an attempt
to standardize specification preparation and publishing workflows,
notoriously problematic at organizatios such as IETF [?].)

With quite a few of our initiatives ongoing, we felt the need to organize them,
to offer more recognition to project maintainers
and to attract new users and contributors.
Thus we, not unlike many other industry participants,
arrived at the concept of a corporate open hub.

Implementation-wise, Ribose Open is a number of interlinked
and visually congruous sites, with one site being the “hub”
and offering an index of all software and specifications
being developed with Ribose’s participation.
The sites are generated statically using Jekyll,
with builds triggered by a custom CI system
(the CI being one component that’s not open at this time).

Like usual, the framework behind Ribose Open is itself open-source
and designed to be reusable.
Another post will be dedicated to the concepts and implementation behind Ribose Open
and how you could make use of it at your organization.