Partners¶

We are open to partnerships with other service providers.

List of partners¶

Here is the list of organizations we recommend to contact if you want professional support for our software:

Rumma & Ko OÜ is the legal person behind the Syndalsoft project. See Our team to meet our workers. Software development provider in Estonia.
Hub People is a development provider in Saint-Gérard, Belgium. „Together, let’s develop digital solutions that not only ease your administrative burdens but also improve communication within your team. This way, you can focus more on what matters most: time spent with your beneficiaries.“
Champs-Libres is a development provider in Namur, Belgium. „We develop custom software to support our clients‘ businesses, and we build infrastructure to serve this software. We promote open source software because we believe that sharing code contributes to the common good.“
C2D is a hosting and ICT solutions provider in Belgium and Luxembourg.
GeezTeem (Gaetan Delannay) is a hosting and ICT solutions provider in Namur, Belgium.
AbAKUS it-solutions is a hosting and ICT solutions provider in Eupen (Belgium) and Luxemburg.
d-Systems OÜ is a hosting and ICT solutions provider in Tartu, Estonia.
Nex Data Systems OÜ is a hosting and ICT solutions provider in Pärnu, Estonia.

If you want to be listed in above directory, then simply contact us. The condition for getting listed is your motivation to provide the specified services and our trust in your ability to do so.

Welcome to software developers¶

We invite you to use Lino in your projects in order to increase your productivity and to make more money.

For this you need to invest some time into learning Lino. We currently give free mentorship to your workers because we want the Lino community to grow.

Check out the Welcome section of our Developer Guide, then ask a Python programmer of your team to read the „Get started“ section, and then decide whether Lino deserves more of your time : https://dev.lino-framework.org/

Welcome to hosting providers¶

Here is a draft of how our partnership would look like. We are open to your suggestions.

We collaborate together on our common goal, which is to help our customer to get started with Lino and to use it in production. We don’t regulate every detail, we don’t write invoices to each other about our respective hours, each of us simply gives their best. We help each other to assume our responsibilities.

Your main job is to provide reliable Lino servers with a backup plan and general security warranted.
Our main job is to install Lino on these servers and to give support to your customer.
We sign a confidentiality statement (e.g. this one) so that we have a legal base for trusting each other. This is not about money, just about trust.

To find customers. Check out how we are doing this and either copy our methods of use your own. You may maintain your own commercial website.

You design your sales strategy and price system. When you start making profit from Lino, you decide yourself how much of your profit to forward to us. For example it’s basically okay if you make 20000€ per year and decide that we get only 50€ from this, but please explain to us why you think that this is a just distribution. We would report to each other how much turnover each of us makes using Lino.

You would write the contracts with your customer. If the customer is not satisfied with our common work, they simply end their membership.

Our long-term condition is that Lino remains free software (AGPL licensed). The legal copyright holder is currently Rumma & Ko Ltd, but we plan to find or create a non-profit entity that would become the official copyright holder.

We might move our server (https:/www.lino-framework.org) to one of your servers. This server currently hosts our Lino demo applications plus the miscellaneous static documentation websites. It currently has 2GB of RAM and 15 GB of disk space. 2GB is actually a bit small, 8 GB would be better. This server currently costs us some 4€ per month. We would gratefully accept if you would host this server for free as your contribution to our collaboration.