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Commons Caretakers offers specialized support services to improve the quality and maturity of free and open source projects, which are the building blocks of the commons. In-depth support activities not only make projects better, but subsequently allow efforts to scale and become self-sustainable as soon as possible. We can help with the following:
- Test Design: We can arrange custom support for designing and integrating tests
- Performance and energy efficiency: Advice on measuring and improving performance and ecological impact
- UX support: We can connect you to seasoned UI/UX designers
- Translation/Localization: Translation support and tailormade advice on best practices for supporting (minority) languages
- Standards and best practices: We can help you bring your system into conformance with standards and align you with best practices
- Technical mentoring and bug support: We can provide experts with the breadth and depth needed to provide customized technical mentoring, help dealing with scaling issues and support with mitigating technical issues and squashing pesky bugs
- Protocol verification: Expert cryptographers can perform symbolic protocol verification
- Technical writing: Assistance with drafting standards contributions like RFC’s
- Crowdfunding and soft skills: Advice on setting up crowdfunding campaigns and developing soft skills
- Technical and community building: Mentoring geared towards inclusive and healthy communities
- Sustainability support: Customized mentoring on business models, post-growth entrepreneurship and steward ownership
Coalition partner services and support
Through our portfolio we work with a number of trustworthy partners that can provide services which are complementary to the work of Commons Caretakers. We are happy to help you connect if you are interested in, for instance:
- Experts in test instrumentation, plugtests and benchmarking
- Ethical hackers and researchers from the world’s first not-for-profit security company, Radically Open Security
- DevOps experts including the inventors of the worlds most comprehensive and up-to-date distro NixOS
- Business strategists and experts on FOSS Market Readiness Levels (OW2)
- Veterans in fundraising and community models
- The legal team of the largest association of free and open source experts in Europe, including the authors of reuse.software
- Experts on software licensing, patents, export controls, trademark policies and defensive publications
- Reverse engineers, firmware specialists
- Software supply chain experts
- An academic accessibility research group working in tandem with one of the oldest communities of blind people in the world (“not about us without us”)
- Thought leaders in post-growth entrepreneurship
- Experts on disruption tolerant networking and home networks
- Senior Linked Data specialists to help with data modelling
- The single largest global network of community networks, The Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
- Community builders, code stewards and code mob facilitators
- Technical writers
- Standard editors
- Specialists on formal and symbolic proofs
- Creatives, designers, writers and artists