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title: 'Distributed organising, using free software, free from surveillance and financial gain - A commons of running code'

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# Distributed organising, using free software, free from surveillance and financial gain - A commons of running code
>The characterisitcs in this section are looked after by technology operations and development circle.

This circle is grounded in a commitment to mobilise the best capabilities of free software, free from corporate surveillance and monetisation, and from steering for private financial gain, as part of an infrastructure of digital means which enables distributed, federated, fluent, peer-to-peer organising.

Operationally, this involves attention to the code running on the coop’s servers, the associated code running in the users’ devices, and the protocols of federation and interworking under which this constellation of digital means is developed, maintained and made available to non-technical users.

The work of this circle includes . .
  - Evolving, operating and maintaining the **server infrastructure** and the running **code infrastructure** of BBB, Greenlight, container management, load sharing, etc,  including spinning-up event- and custom-servers.
- Ditto, GitLab spaces for code
- Developing of features and capacity in any of the above, and informing decisions in other circles related to potential code and server development
- Administering the coop’s url namespaces
- Responding to technical queries in the forum
### Protocols and bridges
Promoting awareness across all circles, of protocols and bridges that might determine the future trajectory of possibilities for room users, and require strategic choices, for example . .
- Front ends accessing the BBB application programming interface (Nextcloud, Wordpress, Moodle, etc) and development in the api
- UI/UX across families of user devices (mesh/mobile/laptop OS, etc)
- General operability and characteristics of present and future device infrastructures (mesh, mobile, fully P2P, client-server, open data, hashchain, etc)

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>Together, the above effectively constitute a **commons of running code**, across the coop’s devices and the users’ devices. 

The rationale and stewarding of this commons is oriented to high quality, highly non-geek-useable, secure, privacy-oriented **digital means**, configured to enable enhanced cultural and economic capability at the **distributed roots**. 