If you believe that free hardware and software are the building blocks of our society and should be in our hands. If you think that we, as a community, should conceive, design and build the hardware and software tools that we need to govern. Join our association.
DIY Maker Mindset
We collaborate with volunteers to create the opportunity to experience hands-on learning, to inspire creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving trying to conceive, design and produce what we need or desire. We encourage this culture from primary schools to University and with no age limit.
Democratize Electronic design and production
We seek to encourage communities to acquire the skills and capabilities necessary to produce hardware and software independently and to have control over it. Therefore, we promote local and decentralized design and production.
Open Hardware Community Driven
Our open hardware projects are governed by our Community that is open. Our Community conceive, design and produce and where needed, thanks to donations, we pay engineers. We are quite slow because we solve problems thank to our passion, creativity and obstinacy.
Power Progress Community OdV, our not-for-profit association is responsible for running the Open Hardware Notebook and Desktop project and Educational Project like coding with scratch with youth in the Primary Schools.
Start a new project with us!
Joining the association is a win win situation if you like to be protagonist in our projects because its a coherent and happy move.
With your membership to the PPC association, we could be more intelligent and strong to face our goal.
MISSION
- Knowledge in solidarity and in the service of liberation from conditions of constraint and oppression and for freedom of choice.
- Creating social conditions of equal opportunities.
- Dissemination of the conscious use and utilisation of freedom-respecting technologies that do not become an information mine for “surveillance capitalism”.
- Dissemination in all sections of the population and especially those far removed from the world of information technology.
- Make the world an happier place for everyone.
- Design Open Hardware which is accessible to the widest possible range of people.
- Facilitate the re-use of dismissed or low-cost hardware by means of open source and free software.
- Encourage people to use open source and free software.
- Adopting the Open Science paradigm that will facilitate a convenient collaboration among all involved subjects, where research data, lab notes and other research results are freely available to anyone as soon as possible and taking advantage of modern communication technologies, letting anyone to redistribute and reuse anything without restrictions, following the rule “as open as possible and as closed as necessary”.
Paying 30 euros to become a member of the association allows you to take part in the decisions made about the PowerPC notebook project, by participating in our internal discussions.
Collected funds are used to support the expenses required for the various websites we run on commercial hosting companies and to pay for the donation platform, a commercial product we use for managing the funds, at the moment for the PowerPC project only.
How the membership fee will be used
Fixed costs
- web hosting of our websites – which is around 400€ a year
- https://www.powerprogress.org/ and the others third levels domains
- https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/ and the others third level domains
- plugin for managing the donation campaign that interfaces with PayPal that cost around 125-500€ a year
- bank and tax bank costs which is around 200€ a year
Variable costs related to our involvement
- association activities such as the switch from closed source software to open source and preferably self-hosted and alternative softwares such as nextcloud, collabora, irc, jitsi, BigBlueButton;
- regenerate old hardware, and support the knowledge and passion transfer for alternative architectures to the younger generations, as well as teaching them how to become accustomed with Linux and programming (example Revivo with Scratch School project ).
Based on what is left, the remaining funds will be used for supporting activities such as:
- buying pieces of hardware or software useful for our projects like the PowerPC laptop
- finance ppc64 big endian patches, u-boot configuration,other software needs
- finance other open hardware designs
- finance open hardware notebook chassis design
- participating to conferences
- printing posters, leaflets, T-Shirts
- support and collaborate with other associations