locali¶
What's happening in your community — in one shared place.
Early Alpha
locali is currently in an early alpha phase. Features and APIs may change without notice. The platform is currently meant for tests, pilot projects, and feedback — not for mandatory production communication.
Local communication is fragmented.¶
Picture this: you live in a town of 8,000 people. The municipal office posts updates on their website — you rarely check it. The fire brigade posts on Facebook — you don't have an account. The sports club sends a newsletter — the browser tab has long since been closed. The events calendar is on yet another site you bookmarked ages ago.
The result: important events get missed. Announcements reach the wrong people. And nobody has a clear picture of what's actually happening in their community.
locali brings local information together — and routes it to the right places.¶
locali connects to all these channels: RSS feeds, event calendars, municipal bulletins. Incoming content is automatically matched to the right places. Members see a clear feed showing what is locally and topically relevant — no commercial engagement algorithm, no ads, and no one having to manually curate everything.
And locali doesn't stop at distributing information. Members can create their own posts: ask for help, offer something, look for volunteers, or share local updates. Moderators can create events directly within locali and make them visible to the right people. Anyone who wants to know something can ask a question in plain language and get an answer — with source citations from the hub, without PDF downloads and without precise search terms.
The platform runs on your own infrastructure. In the default setup, content and questions stay on the hub. If operators enable optional cloud AI, only the relevant content or queries are processed externally.
Picture your morning.¶
You open locali. What do you see?
The fire brigade cancelled a drill — the update came in automatically from their RSS feed. The town council meets next week — the date was pulled from the municipality's iCal calendar. The sports club is looking for referees — the post came via a dedicated source.
Someone in your neighborhood offers tools to borrow. A local initiative is looking for volunteers for the weekend. An event was created directly within locali by a moderator.
All of it in one feed, filtered to your place and the groups you belong to.
That's the heart of locali: relevant local information and contributions, at the right time, reaching the right people.
What you get out of it¶
- Important local information is less likely to get lost — whether you are a resident or a club member
- You can contribute yourself — offer help, ask questions, or reach others directly without relying on external platforms
- You can ask locali — type a question in plain language and get an answer with source citations from your hub's content
- Your organisation reaches the right people — automatically, without posting every update to five different platforms
- No commercial engagement algorithm decides what's visible — no paid reach, no profile trading, no engagement farming
- Data stays on your hub by default — 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
Who is locali for?¶
Residents — who don't want to juggle five apps, three newsletters, and two Facebook groups, but simply want to know what's happening in their community — and take part themselves.
Clubs, organisations, and initiatives — that want to manage their content once and reach many people, without depending on commercial platforms — while staying connected to their local community.
Municipalities and local governments — that want to run an independent information platform designed for data-sovereign operation.
IT teams and operators — that 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 was not built as a business model. It grew from a real gap: local communities scattered across platforms that were never designed for them — run by companies that have no stake in local democracy.
locali creates a shared place for information and exchange — independent of commercial platforms.
locali runs on your own infrastructure. What happens on your hub stays in your hands — not those of a central platform. An open-source release is planned once the core features are stable and setup documentation is ready.
Technical foundation: Docker Compose, Keycloak (identity provider), PostgreSQL, Prometheus + Grafana (monitoring).
Get started¶
New here?
→ Who is locali for? — Municipalities, clubs, residents, operators
→ Features & capabilities — What locali actually does
→ Project status — What already applies and what is intentionally not promised yet
→ User guide — First steps as a member
→ Self-hosting — Set up your own hub
→ Admin area — Places, sources and routing
Demo & contact¶
A public demo instance is in preparation.
Do you want to evaluate locali for a municipality, a club, or an initiative? Send a short note describing the context. That makes it easier to decide whether a pilot project or a technical evaluation is the right next step.