Open source on solid ground.

Basalt is the rock beneath almost everything: the ocean floor, roads and pavements, and, over time, some of the most fertile soil there is. OpenBasalt builds open infrastructure software in the same spirit.

github.com/openbasalt Our principles

Principles

Three ideas came from the rock.

When basalt cools slowly it splits by itself into hexagonal columns: independent pieces that together make solid ground. That is what we want our software to be.

  1. Foundation

    Infrastructure tools that everything else stands on: directory, DNS, security, the system itself. Things nobody notices while they work.

  2. Columns

    Independent projects, each with its own purpose and release cycle, that fit together like basalt's hexagonal columns.

  3. Fertile soil

    Weathered basalt becomes some of the most fertile soil there is. Open code, exposed to time and people, becomes ground for others to grow.

Open, because everything here is open. Basalt, because it is the base.

Projects

First projects coming soon.

The first projects are being prepared for release. Each one will live in its own repository under the organization.

more on the way

Coming soon

Follow the organization on GitHub to see new projects as they are published.

github.com/openbasalt