The JADE-Board is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of promoting the evolution and the adoption of JADE by the mobile telecommunications industry as a java-based de-facto standard middleware for agent-based applications in the mobile personal communication sector.
The Board will leverage, continue and consolidate the Open-source tradition through the continuous support and involvement of the JADE Open-source Community.
Its objective is the industrial affirmation of JADE through the establishment of consensus and contribution of the key players in the mobile sector and ignite a new wireless business cycle based on agent applications.
Concretely, the creation of the JADE-Board, should generate the following advantages to the Open-source community:

• The Open-source community will be able to stronger impact the development of JADE;
• The Open-source community will benefit from a more stable and reliable software;
• The JADE-Board aims at enabling a market for the applications developers create.