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The Kosmos project is an open co-operative of people, who are developing a free, open-source, and user-centric alternative to centralized group chat platforms, based on widely used protocols and standards.
We also offer a variety of other, hosted communication and collaboration services, mostly focused on users and contributors of free and open-source software.
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Products
Kosmos Chat
Kosmos Chat (ex Codename 67P) is a group communication application, based exclusively on open protocols, standards, and data formats. All of its components can be either self-hosted or connected to hosted services. An alpha version is already in use by developers, and a public beta version is planned for early 2020.
Kredits
Kredits are a system for tracking project contributions, enabling the fair and transparent use of project funds, as well as improving project management and governance. After a couple of years of experimentation, we finally started issuing kredits in production earlier this year. Check out the public contribution dashboard if you're interested.
Services
We run a variety of public services, for which we will soon accept donations for user accounts.
| XMPP | Instant messaging and group chat |
| Mastodon | Federated social network |
| Gitea | Code hosting and collaboration |
| Kosmos Accounts | Unified accounts for Kosmos services (LDAP[1], work in progress) |
Community / Getting in touch / Getting involved
Code
Chat
- IRC: #kosmos and #kosmos-dev on Freenode
- XMPP: kosmos, kosmos-dev, kredits, and ops on kosmos.chat
Social
- Fediverse (Mastodon, GNU Social, Hubzilla, etc.): kosmos@kosmos.social
- Twitter: @KosmosHQ
Weekly conference calls
We hold weekly calls to sync our team (and whoever else is interested) on development progress. Every Thursday, 2:30pm UTC/GMT, in https://zoom.us/j/414901303. Usually 30 to 60 minutes long.
Topics:
- Kosmos Chat
- Kosmos Kredits
- Kosmos Infra/Ops
Events
This is a list of events with Kosmos activities going on. Please add more, in case you're working on something related somewhere.
Upcoming
- XMPP Sprint - March 26-29, Berlin, Germany
Past
- Hacker Beach #8 - January 2020, Santa Marta, Colombia
- DOTS - Dec 5-7, 2019, Nakuru, Kenya
- The Lightning Conference - Oct 19-20, Berlin (lio17, raucao, slvrbckt)
- HCPP - Oct 2019, Prague (lio17, maxsan, raucao, ...)
- Kosmos Hackdays 2019/1 (August 26-31, 2019, Berlin)
- Chaos Communication Camp 2019 (August 21-25, 2019, Mildenberg, Germany)
- Kredits Mini Hack Days (April 3-5, 2019, Sambuca di Sicilia, Italy)
- Kosmos Mini Hack Days (March 5-11, 2019, Chiang Saen, Thailand)
- Hacker Beach #7 - Jan 2019, Coron, Philippines
- HCPP - Oct 2018, Prague (lio17, raucao)
- Kosmos Hackdays 2018/1 — Tuscany (Italy) in April (~11-end)
- Hacker Beach #6 (January 2018, Petite Côte, Sénégal)
- SHA2017 (August 4-8, 2017, Zeewolde, NL)
- Kosmos Hackdays 2017/1 (May 2-5, 2017 | during WWWTF Berlin)
Notes
See Notes.
