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## Our Mission
The development of Free and Open Source Software is experiencing an unbroken boom, due to the general availability of the internet and the resulting social network effects, multiplying communication, exchange of ideas, and productivity each and every month.
The number of developers and projects participating in the Open-Source movement is growing exponentially.
The number of developers and projects participating in the Open Source movement is growing exponentially.
Only new software tools and collaboration platforms made these dynamics possible and manageable.
While all successful software tools that enabled this development were contributed by the Free and Open Source Software community, commercial for-profit platforms dominate the hosting of the results of our collaborative work.
This has led to the paradox that literally millions of volunteers create, collect, and maintain invaluable knowledge, documentation, and software, to feed closed platforms driven by commercial interests, whose program is neither visible nor controllable from outside.
Considering the fate of formerly successful startups like SourceForge, we need to break the circle and avoid history repeating.
The mission of the Codeberg e.V. is to build and maintain a free collaboration platform for creating, archiving, and preserving code and to document its development process.
The mission of Codeberg e.V. is to build and maintain a free collaboration platform for creating, archiving, and preserving code and to document its development process.
Dependencies on commercial, external, or proprietary services for the operation of the platform are thus decidedly avoided, in order to guarantee independence and reliability.
Dependencies on commercial, external, or proprietary services for the operation of the platform are avoided, in order to guarantee independence and reliability.
Read more at [Codeberg's initial announcement](https://blog.codeberg.org/codebergorg-launched.html) and the [Licensing article](/getting-started/licensing).
## Codeberg vs. Gitea
[Gitea](https://gitea.io) is a free software for Git-based software development that powers Codeberg. Compared to Codeberg, Gitea is not a hosted service, but the free software tool to build those. Everyone can install their own Gitea instance to host their own projects. There are also some Gitea instances next to Codeberg you can use, but please make sure you find a site that is actively maintained and updated, and that you trust the provider.
[Gitea](https://gitea.io) is self-hostable free software for software development, built on top of Git. Codeberg is powered by Gitea. Compared to Codeberg, Gitea is not one service, but free software to help you build your own. Everyone can install their own Gitea instance to host their own projects. There are also public Gitea instances as well as Codeberg you can use, but make sure you find a site that is actively maintained and updated, and that you trust the provider.
Beware: The official Gitea instance at [Gitea.com](https://gitea.com) is only meant for development of Gitea and related products and not public use!
People are often asking why they should use Codeberg over other Gitea instances. The most important points Codeberg adds are
- a vivid community to collaborate with and ask for help
People are often asking why they should use Codeberg over other Gitea instances. The most important reasons are:
- a vivid, vibrant community to collaborate with and ask for help
- active maintenance through the community and shared effort to provide an awesome experience
- you can take part in operation and decisions, and ideally donate
- you are able to take part in operation and decisions, and ideally donate
- we add additional services like [Codeberg Pages](/codeberg-pages/) and in the future hosted CI
## What is Codeberg e.V.?