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OSPO Sweden

Lagom är bäst: not as a slogan of doing less, but as a way to build enough capability to act.

Sweden's tradition of folkbildning is based on a simple idea: people learn together so they can participate, decide, and shape society.

OSPO.se brings that idea to digital infrastructure.

We help communities build enough open-source skill to have a voice, enough local-first practice to keep control, enough distributed technology to stay resilient, and little enough complexity to keep the work usable.

Concepts

  • OSPO Sweden: OSPO Sweden helps people increase agency over their digital lives and have a voice in the open-source projects.
  • Intended Audience: the intended and excluded audience for OSPO.se.
  • Membership: formal participation in OSPO Sweden as a nonprofit organization.
  • Local-First Strategy: the main strategy for increasing digital agency through local-first, distributed, open-source workflow practice and upstream feedback.
  • Strategic Assumptions: the assumptions behind why local-first architecture, distributed systems, operational skill, and upstreaming can produce sovereignty, resilience, and sustainability.
  • Distributed Technology Stewardship: how OSPO.se helps communities use peer-to-peer and distributed technology responsibly.
  • Protocols Over Platforms: why OSPO.se prefers open communication rules that preserve exit paths over single hosted products.
  • CivTAK and ATAK: a reference model for geospatial collaboration, shared situational awareness, and resilient local coordination.
  • Capabilities: the practical capabilities OSPO.se develops: local-first adoption, basic operations, and upstreaming.
  • Minimal Viable Stack: a strategy principle for choosing the smallest boring, maintainable stack that honestly fits a community workflow.
  • Self-Hosting: the basic operational capability for running, backing up, restoring, and moving community-controlled services.
  • Local AI: a focus area for running, adapting, and evaluating AI close to the user, data, and workflow.
  • Human Layer: the human capability to understand, tolerate, operate, and control the stack, including local AI.
  • Strategy Evaluation: the diagnostic lens for testing whether the strategy is concrete, capability-oriented, and measurable.
  • Open Source Projects: evaluated project entries grouped by category.
  • Reference Models: adjacent organizations and initiatives OSPO.se can learn from.

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