// free software · public interest
Minga Commons designs and publishes free software for nonprofits, local governments and business networks. Open code, your data stays with you, impact published.
Free at first commit.
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Each product has its own identity and its own community. They all stand on the same ground: open code, your data stays with you, public prices.
Pool equipment and help each other out across communities: shared inventory, hourly booking, per-community pricing.
Run a team, its projects and its budgets: who's on what, which week, for how many days, and where the budget stands.
A product's test rounds: the scope to check before going live, step-by-step execution, a reasoned verdict.
Manifesto
Minga is everyone's work for a good that belongs to no one.
The word comes from Quechua: the minka is the collective work site where everyone brings their share to build what will serve all. It's also our acronym: Mutualisation, Inclusif, Numérique, Global, Audace (pooling, inclusive, digital, global, daring). And it's why our ring stays open: there's always room for one more.
Read our values// philosophy
Not one more method. A way of deciding what we do, and doing it fast and well, without kidding ourselves.
Before every project, one question: with what we have, what changes the most for the most collectives? We answer it with numbers, not wishes. What we can't measure, we do anyway; but we say so.
The person holding the keyboard, the phone or the van knows more about their subject than any org chart. So they decide, they commit, they report back. No boss to convince: peers to keep informed. That's what a liberated company means to us.
Agility isn't a method, it's a discipline: ship often, listen to the people who use the tool, change your mind when the facts change. Each project picks the framework that fits it, and we swap it out without drama when it stops fitting.
A decision that can be undone is made within the day, by the person closest to the subject. A decision that binds us for the long haul takes a week and a page. Either way, it's written down, dated, public.
A commons is built over years; an improvement, in a few days. We keep both clocks running: the urgency of shipping, and the patience of those who know that free software, done well, wins in the end.
We launch free products against giants. Public code, public roadmap, public prices, decisions on record. When something fails, we write it up before anyone asks. Trust isn't something you ask for; it's something you hand over to be checked.
If you're looking for the school of thought: we owe a lot to the people who ask “with what I have, where do I do the most good?” — and then go and check the answer.
Our values
Values you can check in the code, in the prices and in the way we work with you.
We build what serves the many, not what pays off for the few. The commons comes before the product.
Short cycles, frequent releases, feedback taken seriously. We change our minds when the facts change.
A tool used by volunteers should be as polished as a tool sold to a multinational. More so, even.
Big networks fund small ones: our pricing is progressive, and the free tier is not a stripped-down version.
Public code, public prices, public roadmap, published results. If we can't show it, we don't do it.
Your data stays yours, hosted in Europe, exportable at any time. No strings attached.
People before users. We listen, we answer, we don't manipulate attention.
When we break something, we say so, we fix it, and we explain what changed.
Launching free software against giants isn't reasonable. We do it anyway, and we do it well.
Contributors, customers, partners: one team around the same tool. Successes are shared, and so are problems.
Our commitments
Every commitment comes with public proof. If it doesn't, it isn't a commitment.
Every product is released under a free license from its very first version. You can audit it, host it or modify it.
Hosted in Europe, encrypted, full export in one click. No reselling, no ads, ever.
Posted openly, the same for everyone, proportional to the size of the network. The free tier stays complete.
What the tools made possible, what failed, and what we're changing.
Given every year to organizations chosen for the proven effectiveness of their work, not for their fame. Amounts and recipients published.
News
New features, releases and behind-the-scenes from every product, in one place.
A full name, an open ring, and the same promise: free tools for collectives that get things done. Why this name, and what it commits us to.
Read the articleEvery test round runs on an environment built just for it, with its exact reference logged in the round's record. The mockups are under review.
See the mockupsRent a projector for two hours, with an “installation included” add-on. A new price grid for each community.
Read the release notesDay rates, spent, remaining: every project shows its budget bar, with a signal at 85% and at 100%.
See what's changing3×3 or 4×8 marquees, tables for 6 or 10: a single listing, with variants you can book separately.
Read the release notesWhy there's no project manager at Minga, how a decision gets made in a day, and what that changes for the feedback you send us.
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One letter a month. Spam. Nothing else.
What we tried, what worked, what failed and why — plus news from all three products, and the impact report when it comes out. For everything else: bonjour@mingacommons.com