Table of Contents

• Our Mission
• Our Mindset
• Memberships
• Rules
• Invite Policy

Our Mission

The Guild serves to organize tech professionals and amateurs alike at the local and national level, with a focal point on America. This is not a guild in the socialist union sense, if that wasn't already obvious.

The men who belong here take their faith seriously and love the outdoors, rural living, and family values. They also may be programmers, system administrators, or just like to daily drive a Unix system.

Our Mindset

Tech, as a modern usage of the Ancient Greek word techne meaning craft or art, here means anything involved with computers and the artisanal skillset required in using them effectively. This however raises a question which should be relevant to basically every person alive right now: How ought a computer be used? To put first things first, tech itself will not solve problems which aren't technical at their root. It's a means to an end, which is why there would be no reason to fraternize if we didn't share the same goals and beliefs as Christian men. That is, the question can't be answered without first asking, How can we glorify God?

To attempt at an answer of the former, one must start with an acknowledgment of hierarchy in system design: that most programs are crap, some are mediocre, and a select few are ostensibly good. The same goes for operating systems, hardware designs, etc. Good design exhibits good locality. A problem is to be solved in proportion to its nature, not in excess or scarcity. We advocate on behalf of the principles of suckless, for this reason. It's not in the name of individual liberty, as for the liberal, his only concern is solving problems surrounding him. Rather, we're concerned with solutions which strengthen the collective, whether that's our family, parish, or town. We seek to connect these local communities without the "help" of big tech, in the aftermath of what tech with malicious intentions has done to them.

How Membership Works

To become a member of the Guild, you should receive an invitation from an existing member in real life or from the admin/owner. If you don't know anyone but would like to become involved you will need to take an interview with someone in our leadership. Please e-mail Tom.

Please do not:

• Pretend like you know what you're talking about when you don't
• Endlessly sperg about black pills
• Provoke unwarranted drama
• Use immature aliases or pfps
• Be a stranger

The administration reserves the right to remove you from the platform at their discretion if you exceedingly fail to uphold these expectations.

Invitation Policy

Anyone who requests an invitation to give to a new member is vouching for that new member and may suffer consequences if that user breaks platform rules. Consequences include:

• Temporary or permanent ban from new invite disbursement
• Removal from Heaven Tree at the discretion of the administration