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| -The SITE_NAME is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community. |
| 1 | +Pi Engine |
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| -Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in. |
| 4 | +Pi Engine is a role oriented application development engine for web and mobile, designed as the next generation and a successor to Xoops. |
| 5 | +Pi is developed upon PHP and MySQL with selected third-party frameworks including but not limited to [Zend Framework library](https://github.com/zendframework/zf2), [jQuery](https://github.com/jquery/jquery), [Bootstrap](https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap) and [Backbone](https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone). |
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| -One of our most important activities is as a standards body, maintaining the Open Source Definition for the good of the community. The Open Source Initiative Approved License trademark and program creates a nexus of trust around which developers, users, corporations and governments can organize open source cooperation. |
| 7 | +Pi Project follows the philosophy of open standard, open design, open development and open structure. Pi is born as a complete open source project and intended to build a sustainable ecosystem that benefits all contributors and users. |
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| 9 | +Pi Engine is started by [Taiwen Jiang](http://github.com/taiwen) (Xoops Project Lead and Dev Lead), [Marc Desrousseaux](http://github.com/MarcoXoops) (Xoops QA Lead), [Hossein Azizabadi](http://github.com/voltan) (Xoops Persian Lead), [Kris](http://github.com/krisxoofoo) (Xoops Council Member and Xoops France Lead), etc. [Pi Team](https://github.com/pi-engine/pi/wiki/Pi-Team) is highly inspired by the Xoops led by onokazu (Ono Kazumi), skalpa and phppp (Taiwen Jiang, or D.J.) successively since 2001 and will continue to support and promote Xoops. |
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| 11 | +Check out [Latest Release](https://github.com/pi-engine/pi/blob/master/doc/releasenotes.md). |
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| 15 | +Features and practices |
| 16 | +---------------------- |
| 17 | +1. Modularization for functionality and applications |
| 18 | +2. Components for basic libraries and services for fundamental system functions |
| 19 | +3. Theming for presentation and appearance |
| 20 | +4. Design-friendly templating |
| 21 | +5. DevOps oriented architecture |
| 22 | +6. Centralized security enhancement |
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| 24 | +Quick start |
| 25 | +----------- |
| 26 | +* Documents at [Pi Wiki](https://github.com/pi-engine/pi/wiki) |
| 27 | +* Download the [latest stable code](https://github.com/xoops/pi/zipball/master) and [latest dev code](https://github.com/xoops/pi/zipball/develop). |
| 28 | +* Clone Pi repo `git clone git://github.com/pi-engine/pi.git` and [keep updated](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo#pull-in-upstream-changes). |
| 29 | +* Demo sites with shared deployment: Pi Dialogue ([pialog.org](http://pialog.org) | [pialogue.org](http://pialogue.org)), Pi Demo ([pi-demo.org](http://pi-demo.org)) and Xoops/Pi ([xoopsengine.org](http://demo.xoopsengine.org)). |
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| 31 | +Development |
| 32 | +---------- |
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| 34 | +You may contribute to Pi at github by submitting your code to Pi repo with [Pull Request](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests) or submitting bug reports and feature requests to [Issue Tracker](https://github.com/pi-engine/pi/issues). |
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| 37 | +Copyright and License |
| 38 | +--------------------- |
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| 40 | +The Engine is released under a [New BSD License](https://github.com/pi-engine/pi/blob/master/doc/license.txt). |
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