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Welcome to our digital community and free software foundry
Mission
Dyne.org is a non-profit free software foundry with more than 15 years of expertise in developing tools and narratives for community empowerment.
Open Source
Code is our literature: we build media architectures to communicate, interact and inspire each other. Our research is engaged and our code is open source.
Solidarity
We welcome donations and cooperation proposals to work on projects that can benefit democratic societies and the natural environment.
Selected projects
Zenroom: crypto VM for database & blockchain
Zenroom is a tiny and portable virtual machine that integrates in any application to authenticate and restrict access to data and execute human-readable smart contracts. Developed in the framework of he DECODE project, Zenroom performs fast cryptographic operations on Elliptic Curves running on: desktop, embedded, mobile, cloud and browsers.
The Venture Builder for Human Centric Solutions
- A mission-oriented Strategic Research and Innovation work programme
- Pan-European attraction of outstanding research groups, hi-tech start-ups and SMES
- Trustable, transparent and unbiased selection of “Human centric innovators”
- A Venture Builder Program of 12 months , including funding, technical and business mentorships
- Access to pilots, market and further potential investment
- An experienced Advisory Board composed by key players:
DECODE tools for technological sovereignty.
The DECODE operating system is a brand new GNU+Linux distribution designed to connect micro-services across private, anonymous and peer-to-peer network clusters and DLTs. Zenroom is a brand new virtual machine for fast cryptographic operations on Elliptic Curves running on: desktop, embedded, mobile, cloud and browsers.
Devuan GNU+Linux is a free software operating system for your computer. Free software means you are free to use, copy and distribute, study, change the software, and share your modifications with the community. Join the FORUM – Download the ISO – Read more about FREE SOFTWARE
Freecoin is a set of tools to let people run reward schemes that are transparent and auditable to other organisations. It is made for participatory and democratic organisations who want to incentivise participation, unlike centralised banking databases. Freecoin aims to leverage the use of social digital currencies in a reliable, simple and resilient way. We are building a Social Wallet using the Freecoin toolkit to be adopted by a prestigious European research project on economic sustainability:
In the IoT paradigm, having a clear overview of what goes in and out of the network becomes of crucial importance for home users and professionals. The ultimate question of responsibility for whatever happens within a network cannot be easily answered, considering the way things can autonomously decide to initiate communications. Dowse is a smart digital network appliance for home based local area networks (LAN), but also small and medium business offices, that makes it possible to connect objects and people in a friendly, conscious and responsible manner.
ENTROPICAL.org is an art research project established in 2015 to contrast abstract value creation with new paradigms in distributed energy usage and value re-cycling. We present our concepts using an evocative visual language through series of screenprints, graphics and installations. How can we bring these value systems into a direct productive relationship in a time in which intensive computation is valued far more than ecological regeneration? How, for example, can Bitcoin positively affect the rhizosphere, the layer of earth around the roots of plants? And how mycological processes affect and inspire digital systems like a cryptographic blockchain?
Trasformatorio is an international laboratory focusing on practices related to site-specific performance. It’s objective is to integrate the practice of the Hacklab with the research over performative arts and sustainability. Trasformatorio had two editions in a medieval village in the Sicial region of Nebrodi mountains, 900 meters above sea level, a little known area rich of history and natural beauty.
Decentralized Citizen Engagement Technologies
D-CENT is a research and development project on privacy-aware tools and applications for direct democracy and economic empowerment. Together with large movements of citizens and developers, we build decentralized social networking platforms for participatory democracy, collaboration and decision-making.
Testimonials
Dyne.org’s contribution to the Free Software community is immense. We appreciate this work from India.
Frederick NoronhaDyne:bolic is one of the ever increasing list of GNU/Linux distributions we recommend because of their strong commitment to user freedom.
GNU project
The Tomb project is actually really cool. They have done a lot of work to make the power of cryptsetup accessible to mere mortals.
Videos
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Theatre and performance art as a cultural language
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Francesca Bria about new digital tools for participatory democracy
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Devuan GNU+Linux presented at FSCONS 2016
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The Dowse IoT privacy hub - the making of
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Social Wallet development in Freecoin
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Democracy reboot: Re-imagining democracy and currency in Europe - introduction
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Jaromil interviewed about technological sovereignty, blockchain, bitcoin and the Internet of Things
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Marco 'Radium' Sachy about digital social currency
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Franco 'Bifo' Berardi about digital labor conditions
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Museum of Working Computers
Since more than 20 years we curate a museum of working computers: a place where people can, both physically and remotely via Internet, log into historical computers, know their history and learn electronics and computer science starting from the beginning. We repair, preserve and share to the public our heritage: hardware, manuals, software, electrical schemes and media of various kind.
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We facilitate artists, creatives and engaged citizens in the digital age, sharing tools, practices and narratives for community empowerment.
Our software is not just about market products to satisfy consumer needs: it has implications that can be aesthetic, social, political, technical, spatial, linguistic, economic and numerical.
Since the year 2000 a large amount of people and organizations employed and redistributed our creations: radio makers, film makers, artists, medics, activists and educators.
Our strengths are community, software and documentation.
Worldwide, free of charge, free to copy.
We work also as an European research organisation for the delivery of publicly funded software projects and we believe that code paid by the people should be available to the people. Our software gives everybody the right to use, study, share and improve its code, to support fundamental freedoms like freedom of speech, press and privacy. Dyne.org is associated to the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and involved in the following research grants:
- Decentralized Citizen Engagement Technologies (D-CENT) grant nr. 610349 (FP7-ICT)
- Poverty, Income and Employement News (Commonfare) grant nr. 687922 (H2020-ICT)
- Decentralized Citizen Owned Data Ecosystem (DECODE) grant nr. 732546 (H2020-ICT)
Setup and running swapi with bitcoin v0.18
Swapi (acronym of Social Wallet API) makes it easy to deal with digital currencies backed, created and/or managed by groups in a reliable, simple and secure way. It gives the possibilities to experiment with different economic models, without lot of the burden of...
The first Devuan Conference
Last weekend (5th -7th of April) took place the first ever conference for the free and open source operating system Devuan GNU+Linux. The conference took place in Amsterdam in one of the rooms of a building that is floating on the water and looks a lot like an...
AGPL – EPL licence incompatibility
Here in Dyne we take pride in using copyleft licensing like AGPL. Lately we are busy with Clojure projects. Clojure is licenced with EPL 1.0 and it is used as a library. Those two licences appear to be incompatible. DISCLAIMER: this is not legal advice, please consult...
Dyne.org Social Network
In #IoT #identity is a process distributed over a person and her/his/trans devices running @DyneOrg OS, any service (VM zenroom embedded chip) and routers running https://t.co/6en6ow48gM and open (3, 4, 5G) infrastructures in common hands. Quite doable.
#zenroom
@jaromil https://t.co/AqLMCOTqZc
What is a #blockchain? How might blockchain technology change our lives? Utopia or U-turn?
Read more, here 👉🏻 https://t.co/hjWYpUXs7d @Stegi_occ
Talk v/ @jaromil | #Bitcoin, the end of the Taboo on Money
👉🏻 https://t.co/x0G4x5STIG #UtopiaOrUturn
Great @robvank to make better known #DyneOrg (freeware) and its #Dowse smart digital network appliance for simplicity, awareness and responsibility in IoT communications. Thanks to people like you and #council_IoT the real IoT that we wish for is coming to light. https://t.co/LuUVwfsoQl
