Weathered Steel

Weathered Steel is a tech cooperative dedicated to developing FOSS (Free Open Source Software), with a focus on:

• embedded devices
• bare-metal/low-level programming
• decentralized/federated collaboration & communication tools

Currently, Weathered Steel is operating as a solo cooperative. Even though it's a one person operation (for now), it is structured to bring on new contributors as worker-owners. After an onboarding period, typically 6-12 months, contributors are given the option to become fully vested worker-owners.

As fully vested worker-owners, members will have one-member-one-vote democratic input into decisions and operations. Members also benefit from equitable profit-sharing disbursed on regular intervals, typically annually.

All software developed by the cooperative is contributed to the commons under FOSS licenses, unless developed under contract requiring otherwise.

Contracting parties are encouraged to release the work under FOSS licenses, as this:

• increases maintainability
• contributes back to a community responsible for much of the software that runs the world
• the vast majority of the digital world directly or indirectly runs on FOSS
• eliminates vendor lock-in
• no coercive dependence on Weathered Steel as a service provider
• our services can be relied on, without dark-patterns to lock you in

See our list of services for more details

To get in touch about help with your project, please see the contact page.