[[!meta title="What are Gitano's goals?"]] Gitano is both a project and a program within that project. # Goals for the Gitano program The primary goal of Gitano is to provide a FOSS git server that a security conscious system administrator would be prepared to host on their machines and allow people they may not know very well to use it. Other goals of Gitano include: 1. All configuration and metadata is stored within the git repositories. 2. Provide mechanisms to build powerful features out of rather than hard-code logic to provide those features. 3. We prefer interopability over reimplementation. We provide hooks and instruction for how to integrate cgit, rather than implementing our own web interface. # Goals for the wider Gitano project Foster an ecosystem of tooling capable of providing a federated equivalent to centralised solutions such as GitHub or GitLab.