locali¶
Your place. Every day.
locali brings your place into your everyday life: it turns scattered local information into orientation, relevance, and participation — in one shared place that belongs to the community.
Early alpha version
locali is currently in an early alpha phase. Features and APIs may change without notice. The platform is suitable for testing, pilot projects, and feedback right now — not for mission-critical communication.
Local communication is fragmented.¶
Picture this: you live in a town of 8,000 people. The municipal administration publishes news on its website — you rarely check it. The fire brigade posts on Facebook — you don't have an account. The sports club sends a newsletter — at some point the browser closed the tab. The events calendar: yet another page you bookmarked once and forgot.
The result: important dates slip through. Offers reach the wrong people. And nobody has an overview of what is actually happening in their town.
locali bundles local information — and routes it to the right spaces.¶
locali connects to all of these channels: RSS feeds, event calendars, official gazettes. Incoming content is automatically assigned to the spaces it belongs to. Members see a clear feed of what is locally and topically relevant — without a commercial engagement algorithm, without advertising, and without anyone having to compile it all by hand.
And locali does not stop at distributing information. Members can post themselves: ask for help, offer something, look for volunteers, or share a tip. Moderators can create events directly in locali and make them visible. If you want to know something, you ask a question in plain language and get an answer — with sources cited from the hub, no PDF download and no search terms.
The platform runs on your own infrastructure. In standard operation, content and questions stay on your own hub. If operators enable optional cloud AI, only the affected content or questions are processed externally.
Picture your morning.¶
You open locali. What do you see?
The fire brigade has cancelled a drill — the notice came automatically from the RSS feed. The council meets next week — the date is from the municipality's iCal calendar. The sports club is looking for referees — the post arrived through a connected source.
Someone in your neighbourhood is offering tools to borrow. An initiative is looking for volunteers for a weekend. A date was created directly in locali by a moderator.
All of it in one feed, filtered to your town and the spaces you belong to.
That is the heart of locali: relevant local information and contributions, at the right time, to the right people.
What's in it for you¶
- Important local information slips through less often — whether you're a resident or a club member
- You find the spaces and organisations around you — clubs, authorities, institutions, and initiatives in one searchable directory
- You can contribute yourself — offer help, ask questions, or reach others without the detour through external platforms
- You can ask locali — put a question in plain language and get an answer with sources cited from your hub's content
- Your organisation reaches the right people — automatically, without posting every item to five platforms by hand
- No commercial engagement algorithm decides what is visible — no paid reach, no data brokering, no engagement farming
- By default, data stays on your hub — external AI services are optional and must be enabled deliberately
- No app store — locali runs in the browser and can be installed as a PWA, in 18 languages and with a customisable appearance
Who is locali for?¶
Residents — who don't want to keep track of five apps, three newsletters, and two Facebook groups, but simply want to know what's going on in their town — and want to get involved themselves.
Clubs, organisations, and initiatives — who want to maintain their content once and reach many people without depending on commercial platforms — while staying in direct contact with their local community.
Municipalities — who want to run an independent, data-sovereign information platform for their residents.
IT teams and operators — who want full control over infrastructure, configuration, and data. locali runs via Docker Compose, supports Keycloak, and exports metrics to Prometheus and Grafana.
An independent project for local cohesion.¶
locali did not start as a business model, but as an answer to a real gap: local communities lose themselves in information fragments on platforms that were not built for them — run by companies that are neither based in Germany nor have local democracy as a goal.
locali creates a shared place for information and exchange — independent of commercial platforms.
locali runs on your own infrastructure. What happens on your hub is in your hands — not in those of a central platform. Publication as open source is planned once the core features are stable and the setup is cleanly documented.
Technical foundation: Docker Compose, Keycloak (identity provider), PostgreSQL, Prometheus + Grafana (monitoring).
Get started¶
New here? Pick your entry point:
I want to know what locali can do.
→ Features & possibilities — the feed, spaces, places, organisations, and local memory at a glance
→ Who is locali for? — municipalities, clubs, residents, operators
I am a member — or want to use locali.
→ User guide — first steps as a member
I run a hub — or plan to.
→ Self-hosting & installation — set up your own hub
→ Administration — configure spaces, sources, and routing
I want to know where the project stands.
→ Project status — what already holds, and what we deliberately don't promise yet
→ About locali — why this project exists and who is behind it
Demo & contact¶
A public demo hub is in preparation.
Would you like to evaluate locali for a municipality, a club, or an initiative? Get in touch with a few keywords about your context. That makes it quicker to assess whether a pilot project or a technical evaluation makes sense right now.