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## History of Open Source at ungleich

Open Source at ungleich is deeply rooted. It is actually Open Source
that started ungleich in 2013: You might now that
[Nico](https://www.nico.schottelius.org), the founder of ungleich,
is one of the two
original authors of [cdist](https://cdi.st), an Open Source
configuration management system (Steven Armstrong being the other
crazy person).

In 2013 a company from France requested commercial support for
cdist and soon after other Swiss companies were asking for Open Source
Software consultancy. This is how ungleich was originally born.

Whenever possible, we ask our customers to make the code that we
create for them also Open Source and some of our customers very much
welcome this approach.

In 2017 we started the [Data Center Light
project](../data-center-light), which turns old buildings (like
factory halls) into data centers.
We realised that many problems that we solve are repeating
infrastructure problems.
For that reason we created the [Open
Infrastructure project](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure).
in 2018 to open source our infrastructure and have others profit from
our experiences. Also in 2017 we released an
[Open Source Crowdfunding Platform together with
200ok](https://200ok.ch/posts/joint-release-of-swiss-crowdfunder.html).

We also released the
[ungleich-tools](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ungleich-tools)
that we use to manage or support the infrastructure. Or you can find
checkout the [backup tool
ccollect](https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/ccollect/) that we
maintain. Or if you are ever in the need to track your time,
we have [time tracking for
geeks](https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/ctt/).


## Open Source at ungleich today

Almost all of our products are based on Open Source Software, which is
why we contribute back to projects that we use.

While we still have [our github
account](https://github.com/orgs/ungleich/), most of our public code
can be found on
[code.ungleich.ch](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/).

We also think that **Open Communication** is important and for that
reason we allow [free access to our company chat](../open-chat) via
Mattermost and Matrix.

We started the [Digital Glarus project](../digital-glarus) to
support the local community and just recently opened the [Hacking
Hotel](../hacking-hotel) in Diesbach to welcome (FOSS) hackers from
all around the world.

And twice per year we welcome hackers to our (strongly Open Source
driven) hackathon [Hack4Glarus](https://hack4glarus.ch).

Even this website is fully Open Source and if you don't like something
on it, we look forward to a merge request against the
[ungleich-staticcms](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ungleich-staticcms)
repository.

## Using Open Source

So what does that now mean in practise for you? If you dislike
anything at ungleich or want to modify something, you can do it. In
fact, anyone can do it with the following three steps:

* Create an account on
  [account.ungleich.ch](https://account.ungleich.ch]
* Clone the project that you want to change from
  [code.ungleich.ch](https://code.ungleich.ch) (you can use the
  account that you just created before to login to it)
* Create a merge request

With this you can modify
[our
website](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ungleich-staticcms),
famous [cdist](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/cdist),
[uncloud](https://code.ungleich.ch/uncloud/uncloud) and many more projects.



## SEE ALSO

* [ccollect](https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/ccollect/)
* [ctt](https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/ctt/)
* [Open Chat](../open-chat)
* [Open Infrastructure](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure)
* [Public ungleich git repositories](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/)
* [uncloud repository](https://code.ungleich.ch/uncloud/uncloud)
* [ungleich-staticcms](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ungleich-staticcms)
* [ungleich-tools](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ungleich-tools)
