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-A large driving factor in the development of Ferry is contributing something meaningful to the open-source community and the developer community at large. Being college students who have access to such an unbelievable amount of developement resources for creating cool projects, we felt a need to give back - we wanted to start a project that would face unique challenges such that others who face similar challenges could turn to us for help and guidance. We hope that Ferry continues to be a project that both provides benefit to businesses and developers along with giving back to the open-source and greater developer community.
+A large driving factor in the development of Ferry is contributing something meaningful to the open-source community and the developer community at large. Being college students who have access to such an unbelievable amount of development resources for creating cool projects, we felt a need to give back - we wanted to start a project that would face unique challenges such that others who face similar challenges could turn to us for help and guidance. We hope that Ferry continues to be a project that both provides benefit to businesses and developers along with giving back to the open-source and greater developer community.