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# Glossary

Acronyms, shortenings and technical terms should appear in this glossary.

If you know something that we've not mentioned, please add it!

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## C

| Word   | Short for          | Definition                                                                                                                                                                |
| ------ | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| COM    | Committee          | A group of people responsible for setting standards for a specific area throughout the project. For more information, see [our page on Committees](/community/committees) |
| COMSEC | Security Committee | Our committee focused around security. See [the security community pages](/community/security) to learn more about them                                                   |

## L

| Word | Short for | Definition                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| ---- | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Lix  |           | A fork of the C++ implementation of Nix, and the preferred Nix implementation to use with Aux. You can visit [their website](https://lix.systems/) for more information, or see [our page on Lix](/lix) to see more things we've said about using them with Aux |

## S

| Word | Short for              | Definition                                                                                                                                                                              |
| ---- | ---------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| SIG  | Special Interest Group | A group of people responsible for making projects and setting goals for specific areas of the project. For more information, see [our page on Special Interest Groups](/community/sigs) |

## W

| Word    | Short for                      | Definition                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| ------- | ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| WANCAIN | We Are Nice 'Cause Aux Is Nice | A principle to be nice and kind, because doing so will build the nice community that we are aspiring to be. See [this forum post if you're interested in the origin of this phrase](https://forum.aux.computer/t/how-to-behave-on-aux-wancain/324) |
| WG      | Working Group                  | Organized by Special Interest Groups, a temporary group for working on a specific project. May contain members from multiple special interest groups                                                                                               |