Community-first digital infrastructure, for individuals, groups, collectives, and community-first businesses.
Here, you will find community-focused, local, and sustainable software solutions. Whether you need to get away from big tech, need a server that works for your friend group or polycule, or you’re a grassroots org that need affordable tech, you’re in the right place.
We believe:
- all technical problems are people problems first
- all digital tools should be useful, reliable, and long-lasting with minimal maintenance
- online tools must be rooted in the needs and rituals of human communities
We offer solutions consisting of:
Practical Software Services
- Migrating data (e.g. from big tech clouds to libre services)
- Writing plugins and scripts to simplify or automate tasks
- Bugfixes and modifications to libre/open-source software
- Setting up or upgrading your workstation
- Administrative work on your servers - migrations, upgrades, fixes, automation
Digital and Organizational Advice or Consulting
- Getting started using open source
- Choosing the right software for your community
- Helping with your self-hosted setup
- Actionable solutions to socio-technical problems
Training and Mentorship
- Building the skills and confidence to manage your own tech infrastructure
- Getting people in your organization to use FLOSS tools
- Managing digital exhaustion
Web Hosting
Off-the-Shelf Hosting
- Hosting some Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), including:
- Hometown
- Bonfire
- Nextcloud
- Single Sign-On (SSO) across all your services
- Kept up to date with security patches
- Friendly and human customer support (by me)
Personalized Hosting
- Hosting any Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), including:
- Fediverse Instances (Mastodon, Bonfire, Pixelfed, etc)
- Nextcloud
- Photo Boards
- Community Calendars
- Collaboration tools
- Single Sign-On (SSO) across all your services
- Custom hooks and integrations between apps, to suit your needs
- Version flexibility: delayed updates, custom variants
- Hardware flexibility: run on our computers or on yours.
- run web services on your old laptop
- perform regular backups to your computer
- even network your friends’ computers to run your own cloud.
Many other tech service firms build software from the ground up. We keep projects affordable for individuals and small organizations by relying on the wealth of libre/open source tools already available, and adapting them to your needs.