free licences
Everything we publish is open source under an OSI-approved licence. Read it, change it, ship it.
falkensee:~$ whoami
Free software
from Falkensee
falkOSS – Falcon Lake Open Source Software builds and maintains open-source tools for people who build things: open code under open licences, developed in public, no telemetry. A non-profit (gUG, in formation) from the town next to Berlin.
projects
omaflake
Clean, disposable NixOS and macOS VMs on Apple silicon – declared in Nix as recipes, started from the menu bar or the CLI. Share recipes, not machines.
falkOSS labs
The home for our smaller projects: plugins, tools, forks and experiments that don't need an organisation of their own. Same principles, smaller scope – what outgrows labs gets a home of its own.
principles
no telemetry
Our software does not phone home. This page loads nothing from other servers and sets no cookies.
in the open
Issues, plans, reviews and decisions happen in public. Anyone can follow along, ask and join.
non-profit
A charitable company (gUG) in formation – money goes into the software, never into profits.
name
FAlcon LaKe → FALK FALKensee → FALK FALK + OSS → falkOSS Falcon Lake Open Source Software = FLOSS
Falkensee is our town: Falke is German for falcon, See for lake. FLOSS is free/libre and open source software.
contribute
code
Code, recipes, docs, translations – every project has its contributing guide. Start on GitHub.
support
Donations open once the gUG is registered and recognised as charitable.
contact
Open an issue or a discussion on GitHub, or write to support@falkoss.org.