Empowering society. The platform to succeed in working on challenges, together.
Alkemio is an open source, open innovation platform. It puts the Challenges central.
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..
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.
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 community@alkem.io!
The easiest way to get started with Alkemio is to see it in action! For that there are a couple of options:
- Demo Space - a Space on the production environment, but that is marked as Demonstration and may have some functionalities limited.
- If you are interested in having your own Challenges Space on the demo environment to try it out please reach out via community@alkem.io!.
- Try it out locally - create your own local Alkemio instance and populate it with sample data. Recommended for the more hands on :)
- Note: this is as of Q2 2023 very out of date and a refresh is due, please contact us if you wish to have your own local setup.
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
- Storage - details of how files are stored and managed on Alkemios
- Classification + Tagging - details of how content on the platform is tagged
- Statecharts - how processes and logic flows are managed on the platform
- 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
Please see Licensing for a full overview.
This project is tested with BrowserStack.