Building Open Source Communities

Locale is an open source community platform serving the needs of local communities within New Zealand. It's free to join, contribute and take part within the collective whilst having a voice in the future direction and development of Locale.

To protect your account and our services we enforce 2 Factor Authentication during login & registration.  If you don't have a 3rd party TOTP security app on your phone/device please download one of the apps suggested here.

Hosts You Can Trust!

Trust, integrity, intent, openness, transparency are all core fundamental principles that become the foundation of all lasting relationships.  It starts at home with ourselves, between individuals, family, friends, groups, communities, corporations and governments.  It must flow in all directions otherwise no relationship will last.

We live in a digital age where our information is more valuable than oil and gold.  AI & behavioral psychologists use it so that advertisers, businesses and corporate entities use it to sell product & services to drive profit margins.  Lobbyists, governments and unelected globalists use it to sell ideologies to control and socially engineer the minds, groups, societies and nations with greater effect than their ancestors could have ever dreamed of.

The bigger things become and more control over our private and public lives the less they are being trusted by the people simply because actions have forever spoken louder than words.  There's less trust in Big Banks, Big Corporations, Big Government, Big Media, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Tech and so on.  

Nothing is free or private in this world as those so called "free" services all come at a price.  It costs billions to run these huge server farms offering you infinite amount of storage space until you die.  Yet they are littered with AI bots, farming, selling and censoring information whilst monitoring, recording and analyzing your every move for profit, manipulation and control over our minds, choices  and behaviors.  When you consider the world has always been this way throughout history, the only difference today is that modern technology offers far more advanced and effective tools in accomplishing this.  

Say NO! to ads, AI algorithms, back doors, backhanders, bots, censorship and government hotlines!!

That's A Big Tech Thing! - Not Us Guaranteed!!!

Current Services

LOCALExCHANGE

ALTERNATIVE MONETARY SYSTEM

A form of local, complementary, community currency to encourage people to spend their money with local, independent businesses.

MARKETPLACE

LIST, BUY & SELL PRODUCTS & SERVICES

With a comprehensive list of directory categories, there's nothing you can't list, advertise, sell and buy on our marketplace platform. 

PEOPLES ASSEMBLY

POLITCAL GROUPS & FORUMS

Developed for the general public, political activists, campaigners & movements with 1700+ groups for every electorate, politician and government departments.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS

Social networking platform developed with project management in mind with groups, forums, documents, HR, ERP, CRM and video conferencing.

Our Commitment

We're dedicated to the cause of providing a wide range of services that will benefit our members and their communities.  If there's something you would like to see added that will benefit you and your community simply drop us a line and we'll look transforming it into reality.

SOCIAL HOSTING

COURSE, COMMUNITY, MEMBERSHIP 

Manage your own social groups with built in courses, directories, events, groups, forums, membership, private messaging, web hosting & video conferencing.

WEB HOSTING

FULLY MANAGED WEB HOSTING

With nothing in to install, update or maintain our feature packed fully managed hosting platform allows you to focus on what’s important to you, content & visitors.

WIKI DOCUMENTS

DOCUMENT & VIDEO SHARING

Whether you're a blogger, reporter, writer or simple want to share useful information with other members, our searchable open knowledge platform is the place to do it.

HELP & SUPPORT

FORUMS, TICKETS, & TUTORIALS

Use our central hub for all help & support which included activity streams, groups, forums, FAQ’s, support tickets, written step by step tutorials including videos.

 100% Self-Funded

Locale will never sell advertising space or  sell or share your data for any reason or price and thus our only source of funding  is through our membeship plans and services we provide.

We're dedicated to keeping our prices as low as possible along with supporting our members and their communities.  Membership is free but limited and can be increased at any point by upgrading your membership to one of our pre-pay plans.  The more revenue we can raise the more we can offer to our members right across the board.

As our members grows, so will our time, energy and expense managing our services, upgrading the network/server infrastructure and developing new services our members would like to see and utilize.  We've already made huge personal & financial sacrifices to develop Locale to get it where it is today with the sole purpose of offering an alternative from the big  tech monopolies that either serve their own interests or outrageous profit margins.

LOW COST MEMBERSHIP PLANS THAT GROW WITH YOUR REQUIREMENTS

Upgrade Your Membership Plan To Increase And Unlock Additional Features

Membership Plans

We offer a range of free but limited online services to all members and for the price of a cup coffee a month you will help fund Locale and in return we'll increase your capabilities.  The more revenue we raise through our membership plans the more we can offer and implement new services to meet your needs.

we take security seriously

We Use A Range Of Security Products & Features To Keep Our Services Secure

SERVER SIDE PROTECTION

We own and operate our own servers which are located in a private and secure location only we have access to.  They are built with multiple levels of security from the ground up using world renown network, server and web based protection.

reCAPTCHA SPAM PROTECTION

We use Google reCAPTCHA  Helps protect our services and your sites from spam bots and suspicious behavior.  It's designed to keep login, registration and custom forms and essential features to various plugins safe & secure.

TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION

We enforce two fact authentication on each of the services we provide giving you another level of security to secure your account.  Just download the open source FreeOTP app to your phone and copy the QR from your profile and you're away.

Contact Us

If you need to contact us for whatever reason, you can do so by using the form below.