About Us #
CSWG is focused on building open-source infrastructure for decentralized organizations & communities, including makerspaces, non-profits, open-source projects, and other small and medium enterprises who are looking for better ways of managing their shared resources.
Goals #
Our goal is to reduce the workload and increase the resiliency of community and organizational infrastructure so the people involved can focus on the work they’re passionate about.
We’ve identified a number of closely-related areas where we believe we can make a difference:
- Avoiding up-front cost of traditional infrastructure buildout.
- Reducing reliance on centralized third-party services and tools and the lock-in that comes with them.
- Avoiding fragility, operational and change management workload, and siloes of data caused by fundamental limitations inherent in traditional computing infrastructure management practices.
- Decreasing the bottlenecks and burnout of key individuals that are common in hierarchical organizations.
Projects #
- The PromiseGrid and Grokker projects are where we’re focusing our efforts.
- CIWG/CSWG Git Repositories
- Notes from previous CSWG Workshops
Contact Us #
- CSWG Discord (brand new – please join us!)