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title: Glossary
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description: What does that thing mean?
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published: true
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date: 2024-08-02T23:15:00.000Z
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editor: markdown
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dateCreated: 2024-05-20T22:45:48.273Z
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---
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# Glossary
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Acronyms, shortenings and technical terms should appear in this glossary.
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If you know something that we've not mentioned, please add it!
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> This glossary is alphabetically ordered, and different starting letters have a heading. Please keep that ordering when you add words so it remains easy to navigate.
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> {.is-info}
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## C
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| Word | Short for | Definition |
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| ------ | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 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) |
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| COMSEC | Security Committee | Our committee focused around security. See [the security community pages](/community/security) to learn more about them |
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## L
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| Word | Short for | Definition |
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| ---- | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 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 |
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## S
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| Word | Short for | Definition |
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| ---- | ---------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 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) |
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## W
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| Word | Short for | Definition |
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| ------- | ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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