Status of iLabbook Goals
iLabbook already fully supports the following goals.
- Free and open source with an MIT license
- Fast and easy to install for the standard installation
- Built on widely supported technical foundations of .NET and Blazor
- Accuracy in scientific and technical computations with C# and .NET
- Strong .NET and Blazor open source communities and a growing Oqtane community
- Have an efficient runtime with .NET CLR
- Free and productive development environments (Visual Studio Community edition, VS Code)
The remaining goals are available to varying degrees, with room for improvement. Click a link to find out the current status of the goal and plans for how these goals might be achieved more fully.
- More fully cross platform (Linux, Windows, Mac)
- Development of a strong open source community for iLabbook
- Customizability for any research project
- Excellent documentation for installation, customization, and for the internal architecture
- Integration with widely used research software packages as simply as possible
- Minimization of the learning curve
- Maximization of the speed of development
- Scalability from a Raspberry Pi up through sophisticated cloud computing