this is, no shit, exactly the thread I’ve been chasing with a bunch of my projects. a lot of the hardware I use the most is either handmade or heavily modified with bespoke components, and that process has already produced so many things I’ll likely keep using forever that I’ve been looking at extending it to the rest of my computing environment

to that end, I’ve already got a static site generator and operating system distro/programming workbench that are both a little bit of polishing away from an initial public release, and I plan to release them under anti-commercial terms and form a collective to manage those projects (and maybe down the line reform it as a cooperative, if any of the projects get big enough that it makes sense)

organizing around these principles wouldn’t by any means be required to participate in the new community, but I feel like it’d be a good vibe to start on