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</nav> </div> </div> </div> </header> </div> <div class="container-fluid" role="heading"> <div class="region region-titlereg"> <h1 class="page-header"> <span>fairkom</span> </h1> <h2 class="page-header page-subheader">It's organic - just for the internet</h2> </div> </div> </div> <div class="bg-container"><div class="bg-container-over"></div></div> </div> <div role="main" class="pagerow main-container container-fluid js-quickedit-main-content"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12" role="heading"> <div class="region region-header"> <section class="language-switcher-language-url block block-language block-language-blocklanguage-interface clearfix" id="block-sprachumschalter" role="navigation"> <ul class="links lang-switcher-list"><li class="lang-item"><a href="/about" class="language-link" hreflang="de" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/278">German</a></li><li class="lang-item"><a href="/en/about" class="language-link is-active" hreflang="en" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/278">English</a></li></ul> </section> </div> </div> <section class="col-md-12"> <div class="highlighted"> <div class="region region-highlighted"> <div data-drupal-messages-fallback class="hidden"></div> </div> </div> <a id="main-content"></a> <div class="region region-content"> <article class="paragraph-page full clearfix"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-field-abschnitte field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--multicol paragraph--view-mode--default" id="paragraph-entity-1199"> <div class="field field--name-field-titel field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">We are fairkom</div> <div class="field field--name-field-subline field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">A network for open source based solutions</div> <div class="field field--name-field-cols field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden row field__items"> <div class="field__item col-md-12 item-odd"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--bild-und-text paragraph--view-mode--default" id="paragraph-entity-1198"> <div class="field field--name-field-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The fairkom society offers IT and media solutions with a core team and a modern office in Western Austria and additional independent IT consultants in Austria and Germany.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>As a purpose driven company, fairkom facilitates online communication with open source software, placing particular emphasis on privacy protection, the best possible integration and a high quality of service. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The activity fields of Open Source Cloud Services and Open Source Software Development are organized as a commercial enterprise with a focus on sustainably operating organizations, companies and the public sector. In the field of Social Design holistic communication solutions are implemented. Within the Commons field, fairregister.net is operated and Creative Commons is coordinated in Austria. The four fields are harmonized within the framework of a business model that is oriented towards the common good and ecologically justifiable.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>As a purpose driven company, fairkom is democratically controlled by its members. Any surplus is not distributed to shareholders, but used to achieve its goals, which are described in statutes. Those include the conceptual and practical provision of communication media with the mission to showcase applications for online tools by using Free Software. fairkom is anchored in numerous networks and makes technological developments freely and openly available.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--multicol paragraph--view-mode--default bgcolor-grey" id="paragraph-entity-1186"> <div class="field field--name-field-titel field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">What makes fairkom fair?</div> <div class="field field--name-field-subline field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Our orientation towards common good and perma-cultural principles</div> <div class="field field--name-field-cols field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden row field__items"> <div class="field__item col-md-6 item-odd"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--bild-und-text paragraph--view-mode--default" id="paragraph-entity-1185"> <div class="field field--name-field-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p><span class="dgreen"><span class="lead">Organic in foods</span></span></p> <p><span lang="en">When buying groceries, more and more attention goes to where the groceries come from and under which conditions they were produced. </span></p> <p><span lang="en">Organic food is characterized by their organic origin. For example animals that are kept in a species-appropriate manner in accordance with the EC Organic Regulation. </span></p> <p><span lang="en">Standards regulate that organic food is not genetically modified and that no synthetic pesticides are used. In perma-culture, the principle of cooperation instead of competition applies, where feedback is obtained from the ecosystem (you!). This principle can also be applied to IT!</span></p></div> </div> </div> <div class="field__item col-md-6 item-even"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--bild-und-text paragraph--view-mode--default" id="paragraph-entity-1197"> <div class="field field--name-field-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p><span class="dgreen"><span class="lead">Organic for the internet</span></span></p> <p><span lang="en">We would like to create a similar awareness for dealing with data and service providers on the Internet and want to set a good example. Unfortunately, there are no binding standards in IT yet (a working group has been formed in the German Informatics Society). Here we list what fairness on the internet can mean. Here, too, it is about cycles and about seeing challenges as opportunities.</span></p> <p>Just as we sometimes get a head of lettuce for free from a regional producer at the market, many fairapps services can be tried out at any time.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--assym-img-txt paragraph--view-mode--default img-align-left clearfix" id="paragraph-entity-1193"> <div class="field field--name-field-bildasym field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item col-md-4"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/assym_parag/public/paragraphs/icon_dsgvo-konform_2_klein_1.png?itok=yF0HijM2" width="251" height="250" alt="Birne" class="img-responsive" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-text-asym field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item col-md-8"><p><span class="bigtext"><span class="blue">All of our applications are GDPR compliant!</span></span></p> <p><span class="lead">Privacy with European standards</span></p> <p><span lang="en">For European cloud providers, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became an important tool to counter the omnipotence of the hyper-capitalized Big 5 tech companies Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft - GAFAM for short, which have set up quasi-monopolies in their respective areas. Due to the FISA regulations, US cloud providers could never reach our European level of data security. More information on GDPR and FISA can be found <a href="https://www.fairkom.eu/en/general-data-protection-regulation">here</a>.</span></p> <p> </p></div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--assym-img-txt paragraph--view-mode--default img-align-right clearfix" id="paragraph-entity-1189"> <div class="field field--name-field-bildasym field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item col-md-4"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/assym_parag/public/paragraphs/icon_server-standort-eu_klein.png?itok=YcseZn21" width="251" height="250" alt="Fenchel" class="img-responsive" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-text-asym field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item col-md-8"><p><span class="bigtext"><span class="blue">All our servers are located in the EU</span></span></p> <p><span class="lead"><span lang="en">Electricity from renewable sources and ISO 27001 certified</span></span></p> <p><span lang="en">Our most important hosting partner is Hetzner. The German data center parks are supplied with electricity from hydropower. The power requirements of the Helsinki data center park in Finland are covered by wind and hydroelectric power. More than half of our servers are used models that we carefully monitor and some of which have been in use for more than ten years. In RAID1 operation, we can keep hard disks in operation for many years and only replace individual ones when storage sectors can no longer be corrected. With virtualization and our own kubernetes, Jitsi and BigBlueButton clusters we can distribute loads efficiently. Hetzner is certified according to <a href="https://www.hetzner.com/de/unternehmen/zertifizierung/" rel=" noopener" target="_blank">DIN ISO/IEC 27001</a>, as is our Austrian hosting partner Internex.</span></p></div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--assym-img-txt paragraph--view-mode--default img-align-left clearfix" id="paragraph-entity-1190"> <div class="field field--name-field-bildasym field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item col-md-4"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/assym_parag/public/paragraphs/icon_open-source_klein.png?itok=Vro84RGT" width="251" height="250" alt="Brokkoli" class="img-responsive" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-text-asym field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item col-md-8"><p><span class="bigtext"><span class="blue">Open Source Software</span></span></p> <p><span class="lead">Software code for all</span></p> <p><span lang="en">Open source software means that the code is visible and openly accessible </span><span lang="en">to everyone. So there are no secrets in algorithms or the possibility to monitor users without their consent. Our code is managed on our own <a href="https://git.fairkom.net" rel=" noopener" target="_blank">Gitlab</a> server or on <a href="https://github.com/" rel=" noopener" target="_blank">GitHub</a>. This allows software projects to be developed, feedback on issues to be obtained and versions to be managed. Because software is never finished and needs a lot of maintenance.</span></p> <p>There are no licence fees for using open source software. Contracts with a minimum term and monthly costs for the right to use the software are therefore not necessary. This can reduce the dependence on a manufacturer.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--assym-img-txt paragraph--view-mode--default img-align-right clearfix" id="paragraph-entity-1191"> <div class="field field--name-field-bildasym field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item col-md-4"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/assym_parag/public/paragraphs/icon_software-as-a-service_klein.png?itok=vI9_JYTY" width="259" height="250" alt="Paprika" class="img-responsive" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-text-asym field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item col-md-8"><p><span class="bigtext"><span class="blue">Software as a Service (SaaS)</span></span></p> <p><span class="lead">Useful</span> <span class="lead">online-services in our portfolio</span></p> <p><span lang="en">Software as a Service (SaaS) is a good solution for those who do not want to set up open source software on a server independently or who can't host it themselves. SaaS is a subset of cloud computing in which shared computing resources, such as servers or data storage, are made available for everyone. </span><span lang="en">As a service provider for SaaS, fairkom provides a selection of open source software that is operated on our infrastructure. Customers can use the open source applications as a service.</span></p></div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--assym-img-txt paragraph--view-mode--default img-align-left clearfix" id="paragraph-entity-1187"> <div class="field field--name-field-bildasym field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item col-md-4"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/assym_parag/public/paragraphs/icon_datensparsam_klein_1.png?itok=oUgPy-ZQ" width="268" height="250" alt="Apfel" class="img-responsive" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-text-asym field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item col-md-8"><p><span class="bigtext"><span class="blue">Our services work in a data-efficient way</span></span></p> <p><span class="lead">Cookies only for the cookie-monster</span></p> <p><span lang="en">Our services are data-efficient and we have deliberately decided against cookies and the associated web tracking. Our web services do not make any requests to external servers and only use a few, sometimes technically necessary, cookies that come exclusively from our own servers. If you want to know more about it or want to check it yourself, you can find further information <a href="https://www.fairkom.eu/cookie-free-by-fairkom">here</a>.</span></p></div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--assym-img-txt paragraph--view-mode--default img-align-right clearfix" id="paragraph-entity-1188"> <div class="field field--name-field-bildasym field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item col-md-4"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/assym_parag/public/paragraphs/icon_umgang-mit-geld_klein.png?itok=pPZaVbUr" width="268" height="250" alt="Wirsing" class="img-responsive" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-text-asym field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item col-md-8"><p><span class="bigtext"><span class="blue">Fair handling of money </span></span></p> <p><span class="lead">Profit is not our main focus</span></p> <p><span>W</span><span lang="en">e grow organically with our customers and are equity-financed. We are not driven by the capital market and do not have to serve shareholders with short-term profit expectations. fairkom is organized in such a way that profits (i.e. what is left after paying staff and server costs) may only be invested in open source and commons projects. We offer our partners and employees fair hourly rates and wages based on the collective agreement of the social partners in Austria.</span></p></div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--assym-img-txt paragraph--view-mode--default img-align-left clearfix" id="paragraph-entity-1192"> <div class="field field--name-field-bildasym field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item col-md-4"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/assym_parag/public/paragraphs/icon_browserbasiert_klein_2.png?itok=UIW3ZwEb" width="240" height="210" alt="Blumenkohl" class="img-responsive" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-text-asym field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item col-md-8"><p><span class="bigtext"><span class="blue">Browser-based software and fair-use principal</span></span></p> <p><span class="lead">Without installation and hard limits</span></p> <p><span lang="en">When using our applications, users are free to decide whether, for example, they want to take part in a video conference within their browser or whether the program should be installed on their computer. All fairkom applications work in the browser, the installation of a program or an app is offered as an option, but is not mandatory.</span></p> <p>The use of the applications is based on the fair-use principle. The video conferencing application fairmeeting can also be used free of charge for private use. The packages are not billed according to the number of participants or the duration of use, but rather guideline values for use are given. Rare overruns are fine according to the fair use principle.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--assym-img-txt paragraph--view-mode--default img-align-right clearfix" id="paragraph-entity-1194"> <div class="field field--name-field-bildasym field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item col-md-4"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/assym_parag/public/paragraphs/icon_community_klein_0.png?itok=fsdeiUzV" width="253" height="280" alt="K眉rbis" class="img-responsive" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-text-asym field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item col-md-8"><p><span class="bigtext"><span class="blue">Part of a community</span></span></p> <p><span class="lead">Let's work on the network together!</span></p> <p><span lang="en">Behind software projects like <a href="https://bigbluebutton.org/" rel=" noopener" target="_blank">BigBlueButton</a> or <a href="https://jitsi.org/" rel=" noopener" target="_blank">JitsiMeet</a> is often a large community, which develops projects quickly. fairkom is part of the open source community and has an extensive networks. Software code is regularly reviewed within the community and anyone can find and fix bugs in the code. As a result, the code is constantly optimized and bugs are quickly fixed.</span></p> <p>In this way, open source software can be modified and adapted to the respective needs. Feature requests can be developed and the software expanded. Changes can be tracked in detail thanks to version management. Good documentation provides information about the project and explains how the software can be used. Open source software projects offer room for innovation because the developers are not bound by specifications but can implement their own ideas and concepts.</p> <p>fairkom develops new features for open source applications and gives them back to the community. For example, <a href="https://www.fairkom.eu/fairblue-fuer-mehrsprachige-videokonferenzen">fairblue</a>, an extension for BigBlueButton, which enables simultaneous translation during a conference.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--assym-img-txt paragraph--view-mode--default img-align-left clearfix" id="paragraph-entity-1195"> <div class="field field--name-field-bildasym field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item col-md-4"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/assym_parag/public/paragraphs/Gruppenbild%20aussen.jpg?itok=E8X-mR0x" width="340" height="186" alt="Team von fairkom" class="img-responsive" /> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-text-asym field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item col-md-8"><p><span class="bigtext"><span class="blue">The people behind fairkom</span></span></p> <p><span class="lead">Just give us a call!</span></p> <p>W<span lang="en">e are not an anonymous service provider. fairkom has its <a href="https://www.fairkom.eu/wir-sind-umgezogen">headquarters</a> in western Austria, Dornbirn, Vorarlberg. We have practical office space there, where visitors are always welcome. You are also welcome to pick up the phone, we are usually easy to reach during office hours and have an open ear for inquiries.</span></p> <p>Of course, we also offer <a href="https://git.fairkom.net/hosting/support/-/wikis/home" rel=" noopener" target="_blank">support</a> for our open source applications on various channels.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--multicol paragraph--view-mode--default bgcolor-grey" id="paragraph-entity-1204"> <div class="field field--name-field-titel field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Years of experience</div> <div class="field field--name-field-subline field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Our story: from "Gr盲tzltelefon" to cloud solutions</div> <div class="field field--name-field-cols field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden row field__items"> <div class="field__item col-md-12 item-odd"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--bild-und-text paragraph--view-mode--default" id="paragraph-entity-1203"> <div class="field field--name-field-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p><span lang="en">Our story begins with the PUBLIC VOICE Lab, which was founded in 1994 and took over telephone services for local civic engagement in Vienna. With the Internet boom, we have implemented numerous media and research projects and published books through PUBLIC VOICE Telecommunications GmbH and later in our own publishing house. Web4Groups was a spin-off with Kapsch AG.</span></p> <p>In 2002, staff members and partners joined together to form a cooperative originally founded by the Free Radios. The activities of the "International Media Association reg.Gen.m.b.H." were the realisation of IT and communication solutions based on open source components.</p> <p>From 2006, the more than 50 members came together as an operating cooperative under the brand name osAlliance. In 2012, <a href="https://allmenda.com/" rel=" noopener" target="_blank">ALLMENDA</a> was formed from this. The focus was on projects with local added value.</p> <p>Since the introduction of <a href="https://www.fairkom.eu/en/CC-at">Creative Commons (CC)</a> in Austria in 2004, our members have been working on this issue. The official CC partnership followed in 2012.</p> <p>The division of the ALLMENDA cooperative followed in 2015. The diverse topics were structured and the business areas of cloud and information technology were brought back into the PUBLIC VOICE Lab, which has been operating as a fairkom company since 2016.</p> <p>We celebrated our 25th anniversary at Linuxday 2019 in Dornbirn and designed our own <a href="https://25years.osalliance.com/#frame1959" rel=" noopener" target="_blank">best-of page</a> for the occasion. In 2020, we experienced a lot of popularity and also project enquiries, which led to an expansion of the team, not least due to the unlimited provision of open source video conferencing services in the Corona Pandemic.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--multicol paragraph--view-mode--default" id="paragraph-entity-1206"> <div class="field field--name-field-titel field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Our mission</div> <div class="field field--name-field-subline field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Means and purpose of the fairkom society</div> <div class="field field--name-field-cols field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden row field__items"> <div class="field__item col-md-12 item-odd"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--bild-und-text paragraph--view-mode--default" id="paragraph-entity-1205"> <div class="field field--name-field-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p>As a purpose driven company, we have defined the means and purpose of the fairkom society in statutes.</p> <p><span lang="en">The conceptual and practical provision of communication media reflects the purpose of fairkom. New possibilities for using online media, especially using free and fair software, are to be shown. The development and use of open source software is significantly supported by fairkom. In addition, the open source idea should be spread and strengthened in business and society.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>These are our goals:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span lang="en">Lectures, meetings, seminars, symposia, exercise and training events</span></li> <li><span lang="en">Operating communication platforms on the Internet</span></li> <li><span lang="en">Providing a platform for registration of openly licensed works</span></li> <li><span lang="en">Establishing contact with organisations, institutions and experts at home and abroad</span></li> <li><span lang="en">Suggestion for the interactive media behavior of various population groups and individuals and support them by providing media facilities of the association</span></li> <li><span lang="en">Development of concepts and strategies that favor the use of Free Software</span></li> <li><span lang="en">Cooperation with scientists and participation in research projects</span></li> <li><span lang="en">Representation of the club-specific interests of the members towards authorities and institutions</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong><span lang="en">Income and usage of funds:</span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span lang="en">Membership fees, voluntary donations, organized collections, donations, subsidies, grants, project funding,</span><span lang="en"> Legacies, sponsorships and other donations</span></li> <li><span lang="en">Income from club events, income from club services, proceeds from passing on information, proceeds from the provision of club facilities</span></li> <li><span lang="en">Income from economic active serves to cover the costs</span></li> <li><span lang="en">Profits are used to achieve the charitable purpose of the association</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Our statutes and activity reports for download</strong><br> </p> <p class="text-align-center"><a class="btn-lg btn-primary" href="https://faircloud.eu/nextcloud/index.php/s/fairkomStatuten" target="_blank">Statutes FAIRKOM</a> <a class="btn-lg btn-primary" href="https://faircloud.eu/nextcloud/index.php/s/fairkomBericht_2016" target="_blank">Article 2016</a><a class="btn-lg btn-primary" href="https://faircloud.eu/nextcloud/index.php/s/fairkomBericht_2017_2018" target="_blank">Article 2017+2018</a><br> </p> <p class="text-align-center"><a class="btn-lg btn-primary" href="https://faircloud.eu/nextcloud/index.php/s/fairkomBericht_2019_2020_2021" target="_blank">Article 2019+2020+2021</a> <a class="btn-lg btn-primary" href="https://faircloud.eu/nextcloud/index.php/s/fairkomBericht_2022" target="_blank">Article 2022</a> <a class="btn-lg btn-primary" href="https://faircloud.eu/nextcloud/index.php/s/taetigkeitsbericht_website" target="_blank">Article 2023</a></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--multicol paragraph--view-mode--default bgcolor-grey" id="paragraph-entity-1208"> <div class="field field--name-field-cols 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