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Electron Workshop

Building the open tech commons, together

A meeting ground for community organisers, ecosystem thinkers, and open innovators. Through global awareness festivals, community gatherings, open sprints, and network collaboration — we help each other thrive.

Electron Workshop

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Un-forum — June 2026

Social enterprise, local economy, privacy, and local AI — seminars, workshops, and an unconference | Online and in person | 20th–22nd June 2026

#social-enterprise #local-economy #privacy #local-ai #free
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How We Work

Three interlocking threads that together form a fabric for the open tech commons.

Festivals & Gatherings

Global awareness festivals — Software Freedom Day, Hardware Freedom Day, Document Freedom Day, Linux Birthday — set the themes and focus for the year. Around them, and around major local conferences, we run chainferences and our flagship Un-forum: a home for conversations that don't have one elsewhere.

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Electron Sprints

Fortnightly open work sessions using self-hosted tools. Community and open projects make real progress while people learn skills, make friends, and contribute to a cause. Work and community woven together — no burnout, just doing.

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Electron Network

Community groups joining forces. Shared capacity, collective intelligence, and coordinated action — activating audiences for causes in the open innovation commons. Stronger together than apart.

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Global Awareness Festivals

These festivals set the themes and focus for our year — days the open tech and commons movements celebrate worldwide.

Hardware Freedom Day
April Coming soon

Hardware Freedom Day

Hardware Freedom Day celebrates free and open source hardware — designs that anyone can study, modify, distribute, and...

Saturday 18 April 2026

Software Freedom Day
September

Software Freedom Day

Software Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of free and open source software. Communities around the world hold...

Saturday 19 September 2026

Document Freedom Day
March

Document Freedom Day

Document Freedom Day celebrates open document standards — the right of everyone to read, write, and share documents...

Wednesday 17 March 2027

Offerings for the Network

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Infastructure Sponsors

Serversaurus

Service Sponsors

Goodness Triangle
TalkingSites

Partners and Collaborators

City of Melbourne
Thoughtworks

Get Involved

There are different ways to participate — pick the one that fits you.

Shape a Gathering

Have an idea for a chainference around an upcoming conference? Want to host or co-host an Un-forum session? Or simply volunteer to help an existing gathering happen? Reach out — gatherings are shaped by those who show up to make them.

Propose or Volunteer

Bring Your Project to a Sprint

Have an open project — from a hackathon, a community group, or a hobby — that you're ready to work on in the open? Bring it to a sprint, make progress together, and mentor those who join. You don't need a finished idea, just an open one.

Bring a Project

Contribute Skills to Sprints

Bring your time and skills to open community projects in a fortnightly sprint. Work alongside project owners, learn from real use cases, contribute meaningfully — no long-term commitment required beyond a session.

Join a Sprint

Connect Your Organisation

Bring your community group into the Electron Network. Join forces with like-minded organisations, share capacity, co-activate your audiences, and pick up causes you couldn't carry alone.

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Enable the Commons

As a policy maker, funder, or ecosystem partner — your support helps the open tech commons grow. We work with enablers who want to amplify what communities are already building, not replace it.

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