locali¶
What's happening in your community — all in one place.
Early Alpha
locali is currently in an early alpha phase. Features and APIs may change without notice. Not yet suitable for production use.
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 it all together — and gets it to the right people.¶
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's relevant to them — no algorithm, no ads, no one having to manually curate anything.
The platform runs entirely on your own infrastructure. What happens on your hub, stays there.
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. 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, at the right time, reaching the right people.
What you get out of it¶
- You don't miss anything that actually matters in your community — as a resident or as an association member
- Your organisation reaches the right people — automatically, without posting every update to five different platforms
- No algorithm decides what's visible — reach is not a question of budget
- All data stays with you — no third-party sharing, no cloud dependency
- 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.
Clubs, organisations, and initiatives — that want to manage their content once and reach many people, without depending on commercial platforms.
Municipalities and local governments — that want to run a privacy-compliant, independent information platform for their residents.
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 runs on your own infrastructure. What happens on your hub stays in your hands — not in those of a non-European tech giant. A release as an open-source project is planned once the software reaches a stable state.
Technical foundation: Docker Compose, Keycloak (identity provider), PostgreSQL, Prometheus + Grafana (monitoring).
Get started¶
New here?
→ Features & Capabilities — What locali can actually do
→ User Guide — First steps as a member
→ Self-Hosting — Set up your own hub
→ Admin Area — Configure places, sources and routing