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the what and the why

the oreohive organisation’s very limited experience in writing code is pretty much entirely exclusive to basic backend stuff.

however, we wanted to make a website because we felt it would be the best way to make the resources we intend on sharing with the world publicly available and accessible without the friction of downloading an app. as trivial as downloading an app may seem to you and i in our present age, we really want to make this as easy, simple and frictionless as possible.

not everyone is you and i, and personally, i’m quite tired with the shed loads of apps on my phone anwyay.

our pledge to you

we want the beehive to remain a publicly-available, clean, accessible and intuitive resource to help people make awesome things. that is why we’re here.

in other words, we want to help fellow hobbyists achieve their goals, or at least achieve progress, in their projects.

we’re just a bunch of silly nerds, and we felt like we wanted a clean, minimal hub of resources and docs that is free of annoying ads, intrusive tracking, slow load times, account requirements or offensive paywalls.

this means no / minimal ads or promotional material, no bloat, no excessive tracking, no mandated account credentials, no spamming of emails with promotional efforts, and no sacrifice to the user experience in a blind chase of profits.

in your viewership of, visiting of, utilisation of and engagement with the beehive at oreohive.org (and the content hosted there), we view this as a trust you place in us to deliver information you may seek and respect your time.

as such, we intend fully on standing by our pledge to make a fresh, clean, minimal, friendly and fast place to access resources, tips, tricks and details about nerdy things we find interesting.

as the world becomes increasingly technological, we deem it an injustice that the general public is being told to adapt to technology. we believe that humans shouldn’t need to adapt to technology, and technology should adapt to humans instead.

faq (hypoFetically Askable Questions)

- q: what is the beehive?

a: ‘the beehive’ is just the name we give to the website hosted at oreohive.org, and all content we host (usually via our web services) under the oreohive project for public availability.

the beehive is just this place, really!

- q: what is the oreohive project?

a: ‘the oreohive project’ is simply the name we give to the collection of resources, assets, materials and efforts published by the oreohive organisation for general availability, and the initiative(s) behind them.

as such, the beehive is a part of the oreohive project of the oreohive organisation.

the oreohive organisation may publish resources that aren’t under the oreohive project (in which case, they will likely feature little to no oreohive branding bar a mention that it’s of the oreohive organisation), but they are to be considered a part of the oreohive project by default.

these resources are to help people learn about a variety of things. while our centre of our attention in these regards tends to be technology, homelab and development (what one could call ‘computational creativity’), there are plenty of instances where we plan to spin off into other sectors and topics!

- q: okay, but… who are you?

a: mostly just one dude in the uk.

designing and building free resources like this to help people learn and grow their skills is something we have a passion for here, and while we doubt this will reach too far, we’d much rather our stuff be out there.

having some knowledge is great, even if we honestly have very little idea what we’re doing, but we’d love to be able to share this knowledge we have with others, for all it’s worth.

so, this is a place for that, i suppose.

we have a passion for computers, homelab, automation, development, hosting, tinkering, raspberry pis (and other sbcs), and many such matters. our thoughts and knowledge on these matters can reside here, all neatly consolidated and organised. hopefully. :‘)

- q: what might be here?

a: planned spin-offs, some of which are already accessible with some very early-access content and some of which deviate from the main, central focus of technology, include:
- labs - for all things homelab, tinkering with such things, automation, scripts (e.g. convenience scripts), and the like!
- universe - largely just a place for the organisation’s creative works, which largely consist of digital art (and maybe a bit of storytelling?).
- human - for resources surrounding equality, diversity and acceptance, and to help little people who find themselves in a big world. this may also feature resources for disabled / send students in public uk education, so those with neurodivergence, dyslexia and the like can get their access arrangements sorted.
these subdomains, and the other such subdomains planned, are to contain different styles of content, and cover different flavours of topics, though mainly just in relation to technology and education.

since they’re not closely related in meaning and the types of content, these initially held different repos for each subdomain. however, we’ve since decided to unify our very thinly-spread development resources in the hopes that a rising tide may then lift our fleet of ships, so to speak.

some of the beehive will likely blend human emotion, creation and expression with a digital twist or acceleration. however, most of it will likely just be the sharing of tips, tricks and information surrounding computers, technology, and getting set up with various projects of your own.

conclusion

we really do hope you enjoy taking a look around or get something useful out of this. the code here is open-source, so you can take a peek around if you wish! :) you can even contribute if you know how to code and are feeling particularly generous.

stay fresh, and thank you so much for stopping by!

more info for fun people who like boring things

licensing and resource usage

any code published within the oreohive project (or with the oreohive name) by the oreohive organisation is, by default, licensed under the gnu agpl-3.0.

this means you can modify, distribute and use the code so long as you:

give appropriate attributions (give appropriate credit to the original source of ‘the oreohive organisation @ oreohive.org’)
provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes to the code were made, and
release the code, including any changes you may make, under the same license (the version of the gnu agpl currently used by the code you used from us, or a later one at your discretion).

any and all other media, content, resources, assets, pictures, videos, images or any other such materials published by the oreohive organisation are, by default, licensed under cc by-nc-sa 4.0.

this license allows you to:

copy and redistribute the code in any medium or format, and
remix transform, use and build upon the code so long as you:
give appropriate attributions (give appropriate credit to the original source of ‘the oreohive organisation @ oreohive.org’)
provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes to the material you used were made
release this material, including any changes you may’ve made, under the same license (or a newer version of the exact license at your discretion), and
don’t use the material or content, modified or otherwise, for any commercial or for-profit purposes.

our identity

oreohive branding and marks

oreohive branding, oreohive marks, oreohive mascots or other such / related assets included in the repo, the website or any materials we may publish are protected under copyright means.

as such, you cannot use them under the same terms of either of these licenses.

you’re allowed to either:

host a completely unaltered, freely-available, open-source, unmodified version of the oreohive.org website or api with branding for non-commercial, not-for-profit purposes, or
host a greatly / significantly modified, significantly built-upon version of the oreohive.org website as a ‘fork’ without any of the branding (including the name) but with significant and appropriate attributions to the oreohive organisation @ oreohive.org, clearly stating that you built the website upon our work at oreohive.org.

ultimately, what is considered ‘greatly / significantly modified’ is up to our discretion, but this is something we’d consider ourselves really quite fair about.

conclusion, and terms & ethics of use

in general, it’s highly unlikely you’ll find us chasing people or entities over licensing crap if they’re doing us no direct harm. this is just to stop naughty people stealing our stuff without giving back to the community.

means of using or adapting our oreohive branding, name, oreohive marks or other such / related assets (included in this repo or otherwise) that are not explicitly allowed are strictly prohibited. our terms & ethics of use take precedence over any of these licensing agreements, licenses or licensing terms. please find them at our website.

any and all of your use of oreohive resources, resources published by the oreohive organisation and / or resources under / in / a part of the oreohive project are subject to our terms & ethics of use. please find them on our website.

sensible inclusions of the oreohive(.org) name or logo in attributions, clearly as an effort to attribute or give credit rather than impersonate, do not count as infringing or disallowed use of the oreohive name or marks, silly.

third-party licenses

poppins fonts, used in our website and brand identity, are licensed under the ofl license.
this page uses sentence structuring, vocab choices and other such choices inspired by or evolved from those of similar readmes in cobalt’s repo. cobalt by imput(.net) has its repo largely licensed under the gnu agpl-3.0, with some aspects, files or sections licensed instead under cc by-nc-sa 4.0.

copyleft 2025 the oreohive organisation @ oreohive.org | attributions are required!

in using, accessing, engaging with, contributing to or connecting to this website, you agree to our terms & ethics of use.

by using this website, connecting to its servers, or using anything by or of the oreohive organisation, you agree to them, and agree to follow them.

this strictly prohibits the use of any of our software, services, products, platforms, experiences, assets or resources (including modified, derivative works, or works deriving from / utilising resources from us or our works) for the purpose of training or improving machine learning or 'ai' algorithms, including but not limited to artificial intelligence (models), natural language processing (models), data mining or large language (models). this condition applies to any derivatives, modifications, or updates based on our code, works, assets or resources.

any usage of this software or any of our assets, code, resources or works in any ai-training dataset is cconsidered a breach of our terms & ethics of use, thus a breach of the license upon which you use our software, services, products or experiences in any capacity our works may not be included in any dataset used for training or improving machine learning algorithms, including but not limited to artificial intelligence, natural language processing, or data mining.

any person, organisation, entity or party found to be in violation of these restrictions will be subject to legal action, and may be held liable for any damages (we may perceive) resulting from such use.

please refer to our terms & ethics of use for more information. we appreciate your cooperation and understanding.

all our code is licensed (by default) under the GNU AGPL-3.0. all our other works, by default, are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0!

we are (the oreohive organisation and oreohive.org are) in NO WAY affiliated with, endorsed by or in any official agreement with OREO, the American brand of sandwich cookie, or its parent company, Mondelēz International group.
OREO is a registered trademark of Mondelēz International group. we use the name 'oreohive' as not only an acronym, but also a play on the alias of the creator of this website, and did not conceive of this name in relation to, regard for or in light of Mondelēz International group or any of its products, services or brand identities.

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