Community-first digital infrastructure, for individuals, groups, collectives, and community-first businesses.

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Here, you will find community-focused, local, and sustainable software infrastructure 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:

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.

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

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

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

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.