About

"e cinere surgemus" (out of ash, rise)

The Riff.CC project focuses on improving free and open access to information and cooperation.

We're building collections of Creative Commons and similarly-licensed free media, such as movies, music and more, and making open source tools and software to manage and publish those collections. We'll be using technology such as IPFS, Codex and BitTorrent to achieve this at low cost and hopefully at scale.

We're also working on Open, our view of an alternate, opt-in collaboration system anyone can freely come in or out of without penalty, without exiting normal society, which may improve outcomes in the world.

Team

We have a wide range of contributors who contribute to the project. This isn't an exhaustive list, but includes current major contributors.

  • Michaela Andrus: Solutions Engineer (Riff Labs)
  • Lucas Jovanovich: Core Engineer (Orbiter + Defederation)
  • Julien Malard-Adam: Core Engineer (Orbiter + Defederation)
  • Evelyn Collins: Product Manager (Orbiter, Open)
  • Benjamin Arntzen: Founder, Engineer (Riff + Riff Labs)
  • Gabriel Cruz: Distributed Systems Engineer (Lis)
  • Bill Schreckenstein: Growth and Partnerships (Riff + Riff Labs)
  • Sphirye: Core Engineer (Orbiter + Defederation)

We have a lot of community members and former contributors without whom this project would not be possible - thanks go out to them!

Structure

Riff Labs is a decentralisation focused R&D firm based out of London which provides consulting and engineering services specifically in projects that will improve decentralisation and free and open access to information. We work with people, projects and teams that are compatible with our wider goals, and through that work we are able to fund the development of Riff and work on things we care about in the process.

Riff.CC is run as independently as possible from that funding, and has no requirement, incentive or need to raise capital or have any real outside influence. It is partly funded by user donations which are held separately and never used for any purpose other than Riff.CC development or expanding capabilities of the physical Riff Labs deployments.

Given recent events, we may soon explore making Riff Labs a Public Benefit Corporation such as a B Corp, and Riff.CC a formal non-profit Foundation in a privacy and freedom friendly jurisdiction.

Credit to "RiP!: A Remix Manifesto" for the Remixer's Manifesto we use in a lot of our materials. Other materials used under Creative Commons and similar licences.