Empowering society. The platform to succeed in working on challenges, together.
Alkemio is an open source, open innovation platform. It puts the Challenges central.
Why Alkemio?
Alkemio is about enabling open innovation, across all aspects of society. Connecting. Aligning. Sharing.
Creating an open innovation platform is a pragmatic offering in the context of the wider vision: "Enabling society to collaborate. Building a better future, together."
The core concept is a Challenge, creating a shared understanding of where we are now so that we can start making progress towards a new reality. But making progress in a hyper connected society is simply hard: there are typically multiple stakeholders that need to be involved. Hence out belief that a lot more innovation is needed in how we collaborate.
There is plenty more to tell - so please do check out a more in-depth explanation of why we need to innovate in how we collaborate, and how we hope an open innovation platform can help..
Who is involved with Alkemio?
The Alkemio Platform is fully open source, and relies on a combination of core development team and volunteer contributors.
For additional details on project partners and supporters please look at our website.
Connecting + Getting Help
The best place to start is on our github discussions. There you can raise ideas, ask for help, connect with others etc.
If at any point you would like more information, or connect more directly to the team behind the platform, then please feel to reach out via [email protected]!
How do I get started?
The easiest way to get started with Alkemio is to see it in action! For that there are a couple of options:
- Demo Environment - a non-production environment illustrating how multiple organizations / users can host Challenges on a single hub, allowing the community to be shared across all Challenges and users to find Challenges that they want to contribute to.
- If you are interested in having your own Challenges Space on the demo environment to try it out please reach out via [email protected]!.
- Try it out locally - create your own local Alkemio instance and populate it with sample data. Recommended for the more hands on :)
How do I contribute to Alkemio?
There is a huge amount to be done so all contributions are much appreciated!
Next steps:
- Guidelines for contributing
- Conceptual Design - The key concepts used within the Alkemio Platform
- Technical Design - How the platform is being built and the core components in the Alkemio Platform
- Backlog - Checkout out our backlog for the actual epics and issues being worked.
- Development Setup - The Development guidelines that are operating in the project
- Security - an overview of our approach to security, from principles / approach through to authentication and authorization
- Security - reporting a vulnerability / Private Disclosure Process
- Quality Assurance - how we approach ensuring a stable and high quality platform
- User Experience (UX) Design System - layout, colors, fonts etc that are used in the various Alkemio user interfaces
- Translation Guidelines - how to contribute to page translations
- Northstar Metric - how activity is tracked on the platform
Copyright & License
Please see Licensing for a full overview.