Fronteers is an association with full legal capacity, established in October 2007. Our mission: to professionalise the profession of front-end developer. The board of the association is responsible for the day-to-day affairs, but outsources the organization of most of the association's activities to a number of committees. Fronteers runs entirely on volunteers. However - in order to spare volunteers as much as possible - where necessary we cooperate with external parties to support the various committees.
Fronteers currently unites approximately 200 front-end developers. Both employees of large and small web agencies, as well as freelancers and employees of non-web agencies are involved in the association.
Although Fronteers currently consists mostly of professional, full-time front-end developers, anyone can join, provided he or she understands the objectives and main resources of Fronteers endorses.
Fronteers was supported during its establishment by the Platform for Internet Agencies Netherlands, in which approximately 40 of the largest web agencies in the Netherlands are united. The name "Fronteers" and our original logo were created by Edenspiekermann shortly after its foundation. The copyright on this rests with the association. The new logo and website design were designed by Ready for Take-off.
View the association statutes here.
The objective of Fronteers is the professionalization of the profession of web front-end developer; and the recognition and improvement of the position of, as well as the support of, Dutch-language web front-end developers.
Quite a mouthful, but the bottom line is that we want the front-end to finally get the exposure it deserves. We have a great profession and everyone should know that.
To achieve this goal, a number of committees have been set up.