The site and the organization are public
From today the Trebired organization and its website are public. The site says what the organization is, what it builds, what it refuses to build and what it charges, and every document behind those claims is published in the open on the same day. Nothing was announced before there was something to read.
All of it is published
Trebired builds software and publishes all of it. Products are released under the AGPL and packages under MIT or the AGPL, each in its own repository on GitHub. There is no closed tier, no paid edition that unlocks code we kept back, and no build whose source is not public. The reasons are written down on the philosophy page.
What is already there
Most of what is already there is the tooling the organization builds everything else with: the bundler, the frontend, the logger, the code discipline gate and the packages around them. This site is built from them, and so is AdmitPress, a desktop application for designing, selling and printing admission tickets, with the sales record included. AdmitPress runs on Linux, which is the only system the organization writes desktop software for.
Client work at a published price
The organization also takes on work for clients: websites written for what a business actually does, old sites rebuilt, applications, and visual identities. Each has a published price, agreed in writing before anything is built, and everything handed over is published as open source and carries no tracking. The services page lists what each one costs.
No text is written only into the site
None of the text on this site is written only into the site. The policies, the philosophy, the standards and the handbook live in a public repository of their own, and this post lives in another, beside every post that follows it. The site reads both when it is built, so what you read here is what anyone can read in the source.
What comes next
What comes next is on the roadmap: making the published pages findable in search without buying placement, holding the organization's name where software is discussed, and then resuming work on Operlorn and Sessionary. Neither product is announced before there is something to run.
How to reach us
If you want something built, or want to tell us that something here is wrong, the contact page says how. Every message is read by a person.