Community Orchestration Software Development Sprint
Tue, Aug 11
|ntari.slack.com
In August the Network Theory Applied Research Institute will be hosting its first annual COSDS project. The Community Orchestration Software Development Sprint is a nine-month event for developing community software that can be hosted locally and maintained through asynchronous, intercommunity forum
Time & Location
Aug 11, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT – May 15, 2027, 4:00 PM EDT
ntari.slack.com
Guests
About the event
We are looking for volunteers in project management, code writing, development support (Slack, Jira, Confluence troubleshooting) and long-term project stewardship (CI/CD). Resources provided by NTARI include Google Workspace issued email, enterprise access to Gemini and NotebookLM, Confluence, Jira, Slack Pro and free subscriptions for most volunteers with 40% discounts for everyone else on standard and 5x Max Claude subscriptions from Anthropic.
We have an ambitious first year ahead of us with nine projects and 68 volunteers.
A community agriculture marketplace connecting local farmers, gardeners, processors, and consumers to strengthen regional food systems and local economies.
A distributed community computing platform designed to reduce dependence on cloud data centers and allow communities to generate local economic value through shared compute power.
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