we are free to share code and we code to share freedom
Welcome to our digital community and free software foundry
Mission
Dyne.org is a non-profit free software foundry with almost 20 years of expertise in developing applications used worldwide.
Free Software
Code is our literature: we build software to communicate, interact and inspire. We let art, science and technology meet open source.
Solidarity
We welcome donations and cooperation proposals for projects that benefit human society and respect the natural environment.
Selected projects
Zenroom: easy cryptography to the people
Zenroom is a tiny and portable virtual machine that authenticates and manages access to data using human-readable smart contracts. Zenroom is easy to program to performs fast cryptographic operations for end-to-end encryption and runs on: desktop, embedded, mobile phones, clouds and web 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 reclaims technological sovereignty.
The DECODE project is a the first EU research project on blockchain technology and one out of two to become a flagship project for the EU Commission. We are proud to be its technical coordinators and to lead a fantastic consortium towards its outstanding success. Dive into DECODE’s research materials and browse the software we have developed.
Devuan GNU+Linux is a very stable free software operating system for PC, +40 embedded ARM boards and cloud micro-services. This distribution has made headlines worldwide and its community-based developed is driven by large numbers. Join the FORUM – Download the ISO – Learn more about Init Freedom.
Social Wallet makes the use of social digital currencies a reliable, simple and resilient process; it is software developed and adopted by prestigious European research projects about economic sustainability. It consists in a set of tools to connect multiple blockchains and database through the same simple authenticated API. It is made to interface complementary tokens and leverage DLT interoperability.
Dowse gives you a clear overview and full control of what goes in and out of the Internet of Things. This is very important for local area networks at home and at the office. This software turns a RaspberryPI into a smart network appliance and captive portal to connect objects and people in a friendly, conscious and responsible way.
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.
Selection of books mentioning us
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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)
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Open letter to the Free Software movement
This is an open letter to all the people who, in their good faith, are concerned about the recent events which have shaken the long-standing leadership of the Free Software Movement. Dear hackers, first and foremost let us say that, as a collective and in the true...
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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...
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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...
Dyne.org Social Network
Great event in Turin on Nov 5-6, including Brian Eno, Roberto Unger, @paulmasonnews, myself, @francesca_bria and many others. https://t.co/KB0aiCGsF0
Want to know the main tools 🔧 used to create the DECODE Ecosystem? @jaromil of @DyneOrg, Pol Colomer of @Dribiacom & @elaragon of @Eurecat_news are coming to #OurDataOurFuture to share what we've been using for the project. Sign up to join us in Turin!
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I am very happy about European plans to enforce the right to repair on appliance manufacturers https://t.co/YA8vLjuvIB go team https://t.co/kcEOW7v3mE @LedgerEu @eReuseOrg
Bretton Woods Project: EIB’s draft energy plan proposes ending finance for fossil fuels after 2020 https://t.co/Srhg9HEWZE
Bretton Woods Project: Tout change et rien change pas: Global power and IMF leadership https://t.co/x2Vd98OYdI
Bretton Woods Project: Critical reflections on World Bank’s draft Fragility, Conflict and Violence Strategy https://t.co/VbMfKORaE2