Hello.

We develop digital solutions with expertise based on open source solutions and with a focus on accessibility, data protection and sustainability.

Did you know? We are the good ones. Nice to meet you.

As an independent service provider, we implement solutions exclusively as free software (open source). This means that our customers remain independent of manufacturers and free to choose their service provider.

We offer consulting, development and implementation of sophisticated web applications. We also offer services in the areas of operation, conception, design, usability, training and education.

To this end, we have organised ourselves into different business areas, which we briefly present below.

Our business areas for the development of things

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    CoWAIN

    Company Without An Interesting Name

    Thoroughly considered design, ambitious application development, adjustable concepts – the combination that makes us excellent. For a better world. We combine good looks with valuable craft and values...

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    Safeserver

    IT administration and security services. We offer planning and maintenance of networks, web hosting, deployment, infrastructure. In short: IT consulting and solutions for distributed teams, including...

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    indielux

    We make watts is the claim of Berlin-based indielux GmbH, which has been developing safe solutions for plug-in solar devices since 2014. We joined the product development of Ready2Plugin, the first...

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    Broken Image

    Broken Image offers usability expertise, accessibility surveys and suitable user testing. Our experts are using modern technology, therefore testing with Voiceover, Alexa, and Seeing AI as well. That...

Solutions and services around open source software

  • Requirements engineering
  • Consulting
  • Project management
  • Concepts
  • Expertise
  • Orchestration of solutions
  • Agile development

During the discussions in customer projects, we were able to identify things that were worth developing as independent products.

Things we have developed

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    OpenCulturas

    Regional cultural marketing made simple: With OpenCulturas as a platform, cultural professionals are able to retain control over their information and present their up-to-date information to a broad...

  • CMS Audits

    We provide standardized expert opinions on the "state of health" of CMS-based systems, for currently Drupal, Plone, TYPO3, Joomla!, WordPress, Contao. The focus is on the question of system...

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    Usabilitally

    Usability testing for accessibility

    The usefulness of a Thinking aloud test is indisputable to find out where the weaknesses of a tool lie. We combine this methodology with accessibility testing in which our test persons test your...

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    deGov CMS

    A government CMS based on free and open source (Drupal). Public money for public code.

  • Signfirst

    A service for online registration of creative work/ideas, addressing copyright owners who shy away from notarial acts (costs).

Support & development of free software

You are also welcome to commission us to organize professional support for you for free software products. Our involvement in the open source communities has formed a network of highly specialized people and friendly companies.

We avoid technical jargon

Terms such as digital sovereignty, digital transformation or digital leadership are often thrown around, which we discuss in our articles. In projects with you, however, we prefer a common understanding to buzzwords.

You are welcome to get an impression of this in our magazine.

Magazine

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Data theft and password jam

von Manfred Wöller

Despite many reports of hacked credentials, most users protect their accounts only half-heartedly. How does password security work?

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How blind people use computers

by Dennis Westphal

This blog post is about how blind people can interact with computers without barriers. How do they access screen content, how do they navigate websites, how do they enter data? What tools are...

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G Suite for Education from Google in schools

von Manfred Wöller

Schools and universities can use the Google G Suite for Education package free of charge. This may be favourable, but it is tricky in terms of data protection.

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No time for a trip to Berlin?

Then perhaps we will meet at one of the next events where we are travelling as speakers, participants or exhibitors.

Upcoming dates

FrOSCon entrance hall

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FrOSCon

Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Sankt Augustin
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FOSDEM

Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting

Hybrid-Event // ULB Solbosch Campus, Brüssel or online
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We also give lectures on the following topics:

  • Introduction to the concept of free software
  • Corporate culture and free software
  • Free Software Community

Contacting us using our form is the first step.

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