In times of conflict and climate breakdown, Free and Open Source Software offers an alternative to the centralized vulnerabilities posed by hyperscale tech giants. The world needs our contributions to strengthen local autonomy, foster networked agility, and improve systems resilience.

Quaive is a social intranet, collaboration and knowledge management platform that builds on Plone. We ship with an open source license. We are partnering with Imio, to bring Quaive to local governments in Belgium. Imio has pioneered a wildly succesful rollout of open source software into the public sector. To make Quaive part of Imio's product portfolio, we have had to find alignment on cultural, financial and technological factors. Culturally, we needed to build trust and find a project management rhythm. Financially, we had to create a suitable pricing model and business model. Technology wise, we translated our NixOS/Ansible driven deployments, into a Docker/Puppet driven devops pipeline.