Convene secure, affordable, always-available digital Spaces where anyone can (play || work || grow || be). 🎲 👩💻 🌱 🛋️
Convene serves as the Means of Connection. Create a Space to co-conspire, relax, learn, play, work, swap recipes, read books, or really anything!
Convene provides the underlying infrastructure for a Neighborhood of Spaces. Operators help Clients design their Spaces and keep the Neighborhood up and running. Maintainers and Contributors enhance Convene with:
- Furniture, fun toys and powerful tools
- Utilities, integrating external services like Stripe, Calendly, Jitsi, and more.
The Internet is for People, so why not put People in charge of their digital spaces?
To put it succinctly, Convene provides:
- Digital infrastructure, toys, and tooling
- For small groups and individuals
- Co-creating a better future.
We have two milestones in flight at any one time:
- Product Milestone: 1.0 Andromeda
- Engineering Milestone: Cleanup!
[Zinc] maintains a Convene Neighborhood at https://convene.zinc.coop. For people who want to run their own Neighborhood of Spaces, consider purchasing a Convene Operator License.
Individuals and non-commercial organizations may run their own Convene deployment however they see fit without requiring payment.
However, if the person or organization engages in commerce, defined as taking currency in exchange for goods or services, then the organization must purchase a license to use Convene.
Pricing is determined on a case-by-case basis. Please reach out to
[email protected] for licensing information.
Organizations and individuals who are comfortable relying on free Community Support are encouraged to start a discussion. Maintainers respond as they are available.
Paid support is available for $135 USD per hour1.
We're always excited for new contributors! Read more in our guide to contributing, located in CONTRIBUTING.md
Convene is maintained by a dedicated community of volunteer Contributors and Maintainers known as the Zinc Collective, a digital product and services cooperative.
We have a Pledge and Code of Conduct. And anyone can become a contributor and/or maintainer.
Our paid support rate is pegged to 3x the San Francisco Living Wage for a couple with a single worker raising three children.
This rate is negotiable for organizations that offer Zinc a patronage account or corresponding equity stake.
Paid support clients may also request a deferred payment program, with terms to be determined on a case-by-case basis.