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Welcome to The Jakarta Project The Jakarta Project offers a diverse set of open source Java solutions and is a part of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) which encourages a collaborative, consensus-based development process under an open software license . Jakarta is organized into subprojects, summarized in the section below . The ASF contains other Java projects, some of which were a part of Jakarta, that are detailed on the ASF Project page. It is recommended that users of Jakarta products subscribe to the Jakarta announcements mailing list .
Making money consciously Contributing social value is the primary strategy for making money consciously, but by itself it’s still not enough. The problem with social value is that your personal values won’t perfectly align with the social consensus. I’m sure that if everyone on earth were like you, the demand for certain products and services would shift dramatically. For example, if everyone were like me, fresh fruits and vegetables would have even higher social value, while factory farming would have none whatsoever.When you attempt to provide social value without achieving congruence with your personal values, your motivation will be very weak. You won’t be inspired because you’ll be doing what you feel you should do, but not what you want to do. I often see this happen with people who jump into blogging on a topic they think will make them a lot of money, only to give up after a few months because they can’t stomach it any longer. Please don’t do this to yourself.Alternatively, wh