= Welcome GENI Developers! =

GENI is developed by the hard work of many members of the community. GENI developers build tools, aggregates, support services, and other key components of GENI. 

== Communications ==
GENI developers communicate using the [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/geni-developers GENI Developers Google Group]. Older discussions are [http://lists.geni.net/pipermail/dev/ archived here].

== Software ==
GENI funded software is released using [https://www.geni.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/genipublic.pdf the GENI Public License], an open source license.

Many of the GENI tools and services have public software [wiki:GENIDeveloper/Repositories version control repositories].

== Design Efforts and Artifacts ==

GENI software components include:
 * [wiki:GeniArchitectTeam Software Architecture]
 * [wiki:GeniClearinghouse Clearinghouse aka Federation Services and common APIs]
 * Trust Model
 * Identity and Authorization services and policies
 * [wiki:GeniApi Aggregate Manager API]
 * Network stitching
 * Resource Specifications (RSpecs)


Older material on GENI design efforts are [wiki:GeniDesign documented here].