Editing Alternative keyboard layouts (section)

==== Community and Use ==== 
<em>Software</em>:
AdNW consists of a layout and several software implementations:
* Drivers & scripts for using the layout on Windows, Linux, OSX and *BSD; with versions for standard keyboards and for ergonomic keyboards (Ergodox, Maltron and others). This includes AutoHotKey files for Windows.  
* Typing training software
* The Optimizer: an algorithm (written in C++11 and open sourced) for calculating a custom AdNW-layout. 

<em>Userbase</em>: 
AdNW is not a massively adopted layout. The (German language) [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/adnw Google user group] has around 100 participants, mostly from Germany. The [http://www.adnw.de AdNW website] is in German as well. However, the manual of the optimizer is in English, and participants on the discussion group say they are very open to questions in English. 

<em>Support</em>:
The developers of the software are active on the discussion forum and answer support questions.

<em>Development</em>:
AdNW has been iterated upon by many in its community. Usually these changes are trade-offs between the specific use-case the layout is being optimized for. The developers claim that there is not much room for further overall improvement, but invite users to prove them wrong and to come up with new ideas.

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