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Term	Alternate terms	Official Link	Description
Github Organization	org	*
Github Repository	repo	Github Help
Topic Tags	tags	*
Index			A common method for keeping track of data so that it can be accessed quickly. Like an index in a book, it is a list in which each entry contains the name of the item and its location. However, computer-based indexes may point to a physical location on a disk or to a logical location that points elsewhere to the actual location.
Open source	OS	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source	from Wikipedia: Open source products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. It most commonly refers to the open-source model, in which open-source software or other products are released under an open-source license as part of the open-source-software movement. Use of the term originated with software, but has expanded beyond the software sector to cover other open content and forms of open collaboration.
Civic Tech		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_technology	from Wikipedia: Civic technology, or civic tech, enhances the relationship between the people and government with software for communications, decision-making, service delivery, and political process. It includes information and communications technology supporting government with software built by community-led teams of volunteers, nonprofits, consultants, and private companies as well as embedded tech teams working within government.
Foss		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software	from Wikipedia: Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that can be classified as both free software and open-source software.That is, anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software.[3] This is in contrast to proprietary software, where the software is under restrictive copyright licensing and the source code is usually hidden from the users. FOSS maintains the software user's civil liberty rights (see the Four Essential Freedoms, below). Other benefits of using FOSS can include decreased software costs, increased security and stability (especially in regard to malware), protecting privacy, education, and giving users more control over their own hardware. Free and open-source operating systems such as Linux and descendants of BSD are widely utilized today, powering millions of servers, desktops, smartphones (e.g., Android), and other devices. Free-software licenses and open-source licenses are used by many software packages. The free-software movement and the open-source software movement are online social movements behind widespread production and adoption of FOSS.
Brigade		CfA
Affiliated			Parent organization exists.
Unaffiliated			No parent organization.
Programming Language		*
Project language
Stargazer count		*
Open issues count		*
New issue count		*
Good First Issue		*
Last Updated		*
Created in			Continent this project was first created in.
Tag generator			The Civic Tech Index step by step tool for creating topic tags.
Project			See GitHub Repository.
Project repository URL			Link to GitHub Repository.
Topics/Causes/Civic Issues		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_technology	Problem, often related to civic technology, that projects are created to solve.
Project Name	Repository name	*