Get Involved
PowerCommons depends on the people who choose to back it — with code, capital, conviction, or a megaphone. Find your lane below.
Contribute
Code, documentation, testing. Whether you’re an FPGA developer, Linux kernel hacker, or technical writer — there’s a place for you.
Partner
A commons is only as strong as its community. We are looking for partners — industry, government, research institutions, hardware manufacturers, investors, civic society, and those with the means and conviction to back what they believe in — who understand that sovereign computing infrastructure is too important to be left to any single actor. If you build products that depend on trustworthy silicon, fabricate or supply hardware, run critical infrastructure, set policy, or invest in deep tech with strategic patience — there is a place for you here. Partnership can mean co-development, reference deployments, hardware donations, advisory engagement, or simply lending your name and gravity to the project. Early partners shape the architecture and the roadmap.
Fund
Open silicon is expensive. FPGA boards, fabrication runs, formal verification tools, full-time engineering, and the long patient years between prototype and production — none of it is free, and none of it can be sustained on enthusiasm alone. PowerCommons is generously supported by the NLnet Foundation, but a single grant cannot carry a stack from FPGA to fab. We are actively seeking additional funders — public bodies, private foundations, sovereign wealth, mission-aligned investors, and individuals who understand that infrastructure of this consequence cannot be left entirely to markets or to states. Every euro extends the runway. Every funded milestone moves the commons closer to silicon you can actually deploy.
Community
Advocates, writers, educators, and curious minds. Follow the work, spread the word, join the conversation on Matrix: #powercommons:matrix.org
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