• Open Collective

  • Loomio (or on GitHub)

    Loomio is decision-making software and web service designed to assist groups with collaborative, consensus-focused decision-making processes. It is a free software web application, where users can initiate discussions and put up proposals

  • Signal organize clubs, teams, affinity groups (no larger community feature like WhatsApp yet, sadly)

    • Disappearing messages for activist safety
    • Safety number check for journalist & activist safety
  • BookStack is a simple, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.

  • Cal.com meeting booking. free, open source, self hostable.

  • GoToSocial - self-hosted federated social media

  • Mastodon – federated1 social media

  • Omnivore: “Save articles, newsletters, and documents and read them later — focused and distraction free. Add notes and highlights. Organize your reading list the way you want and sync it across all your devices.”

  • Matrix

  • Hylo

  • Known: A collaborative social publishing engine

    Known allows any number of users to post to a shared site with blog posts, status updates, photographs, and more.

  • Flowershow.app: Create websites from Markdown

Dream software tools

  • open source version of lu.ma
  • Meeting agenda compiler: how to store shared docs with easy access (dashboard/portal) that is not G00gle-owned.

Dashboard / portal for communities

  • All in one open source self-hostable community platform, to replace FB:
    • message board
    • Group video chat (via Jitsi)
    • calendar
    • profiles
    • tickets?
    • email list and newsletters
    • DM

Footnotes

  1. http://federated.world/