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🧭🏘️📲 Exploring a new social product for local communities

We’re seeking local partners for collaboration as we pilot new concepts and designs

microsoft/Foundry-Local

Contribute to microsoft/Foundry-Local development by creating an account on GitHub.

Gergely Orosz on Twitter / X

Doing it *for yourself* - amazing, personal software!! And lots of funDoing it *for your team* of 35 - sounds like less fun, and rebuilding a bunch of stuff that is not minimalist but what collaboration software has to do— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) March 25, 2026

The Local Relational Technologist

Who can we rely on for meaningful software in our communities?

Cross-License Collaboratives

decentralizing contributor license agreements

What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer

Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests. You want to help all of them,…

What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer

Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests. You want to help all of them,…

HerbCaudill/localfirstconf2026

Contribute to HerbCaudill/localfirstconf2026 development by creating an account on GitHub.

I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer

It works! I am now a full-time independent open-source maintainer. I'm announcing my first cohort of six clients, and sharing some details of how the model works.