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Welcome to Agorakit

Agorakit is an open source, Web-based groupware for collectives. It allows groups to collaborate, organize events, and store files. It keeps everyone updated with a discussion forum, agenda, file manager, and email notifier.

Most of the time, Agorakit doesn't even need an admin, keeping the process as horizontal as possible.

If you are looking for ways to contribute (great!), check the contribution guide.

Try Agorakit

If you want to try Agorakit without installing it, go to https://app.agorakit.org to create an account and then create or join some groups.

For guidance, check the user guide or group owner guide.

Server admins can alternatively install or upgrade it themselves.

Mission Statement

Agorakit offers a complete toolset for a community to effectively self-organize that encourages cohesion at a sustainably small scale while supporting continuous change. It supports good governance by providing strong individual & group protections, enabling emergent leadership, and facilitating group alignment & mediation.

Beliefs

To stay aligned on how we achieve our mission, Agorakit subscribes to these core beliefs:

  1. Communities should only be divided by individual choices: interest, labor, location, or belief (except beliefs that create additional divisions or restrict those individual choices).
  2. Sustainable communities must support diversity, equity, inclusion, & accessibility, which requires an accountable power structure within the software and that the community owns its own data.
  3. Communities require trust, which requires the investment of time between individuals. Therefore, you cannot create community that is frictionless, fully automated, or infinitely scalable.
  4. Every community is unique and its software should reflect that, but community management should not require programming plugins or themes.
  5. The open Web is critical to the future of humanity and is best supported through standards-based interoperability, strong data privacy, and platform transferability.

For more information, see the community discussion.