Added GitBook template for profiles

Author: liam-middlebrook

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+Profile: %Subject%
+==================
+
+### Authors
+
+- Name <handle/email>
+
+### Rationale
+
+There are **so** many subjects you could choose to profile, so why did you choose this one?
+What drew you into wanting to know more about the organization?
+How did you/your group decide on and agree?
+
+
+## Organizational Details
+
+- Is the subject of your profile a corporate entity?
+- What type?
+- When was it founded?
+- By whom?
+- Original founder(s) still active?
+- Publicly Traded? Since when? Initial Stock Price? Current stock price?
+- Has the company made any acquisitions? If yes, which companies, and what were their core products?
+- Has the company made any investments in other companies? If yes, which ones.
+- Number of Employees?
+- Where is HQ?
+- Does it have any other offices or locations?
+- Website?
+- Wikipedia?
+- Does your organization file any annual reports? Please include links to any relevant documents (i.e. 990, Annual Report, Year in Review, etc...)
+
+
+## Communications
+
+### Social media for COMPANY
+
+- Does your subject participate in social media?
+- If yes, please list a URL for each account, and reach within that community.
+- Example:
+        - [Twitter: @RedHatNews](https://twitter.com/redhatnews) - 61.9K Followers.
+
+### Communications channels for COMPANY
+
+- What communication channels does your subject use to reach their public?
+- Briefly describe and include a URL for each.
+
+### COMPANY Conference Participation
+
+- Does your subject organize or participate in any conferences?
+- If so, list them here, and provide links to any relevant sessions, keynotes, or content.
+
+## Community Architecture
+
+Your subject likely runs or contributes to one or more Open Source products or projects. Choose one (or more) of these and answer the following questions:
+
+- If applicable, list and provide links to:
+        - The project's IRC Channel
+        - Source Code repository
+        - Mail list archive
+        - Documentation
+        - Other communication channels
+        - Project Website and/or Blog
+
+- Describe the software project, its purpose and goals.
+- Give brief history of the project. When was the Initial Commit? The latest commit?
+
+- Who approves patches? How many people?
+- Who has commit access, or has had patches accepted?  How many total?
+- Has there been any turnover in the Core Team? (i.e. has the top 20% of contributors stayed the same over time? If not, how has it changed?)
+- Does the project have a BDFL, or Lead Developer? (BDFL == Benevolent Dictator for Life)
+- Are the front and back end developers the same people? What is the proportion of each?
+- What have been some of the major bugs/problems/issues that have arisen during development? Who is responsible for quality control and bug repair?
+- How is the project's participation trending and why?
+- In your opinion, does the project pass "The Raptor Test?" (i.e. Would the project survive if the BDFL, or most active contributor were eaten by a Velociraptor?) Why or why not?
+- In your opinion, would the project survive if the core team, or most active 20% of contributors, were hit by a bus? Why or why not?
+- Does the project have an official "on-boarding" process in place?  (new contributor guides, quickstarts, communication leads who focus specifically on newbies, etc...)
+- Does the project have Documentation available? Is it extensive?  Does it include code examples?
+- If you were going to contribute to this project, but ran into trouble or hit blockers, who would you contact, and how?
+- Based on these answers, how would you describe the decision making structure/process of this group?  Is it hierarchical, consensus building, ruled by a small group, barely contained chaos, or ruled by a single or pair of individuals?
+- Is this the kind of structure you would enjoy working in? Why, or why not?
+
+
+## Technology/Product
+
+Section adapted from [EFF](EFF) [Worksheet](http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/technology-history-worksheet)
+
+- Who invented, created, or sponsored the technology?
+- What is the technology designed to do? How is it used?
+- Who would benefit from using this technology?
+- What kinds of companies or organizations (stakeholders) might have been concerned about the development of this technology? Why?
+- Does/Did an aspect of copyright law play a role in controversies about the technology? How?
+
+
+## Business and Revenue Model
+
+- How was this organization funded originally?
+- How does this organization make revenue?
+- Which specific Open Source Revenue Models are utilized?
+- What investments/acquisitions has the organization made?
+