How we hold it

Open source from day one.

The code is public before the first Collective is. Anyone can run it, inspect it, improve it or fork it. It's released under an open licence chosen before the first commit, so no future owner can close it.

Open by design.

Open APIs, open export formats and versioned standards, changed in the open. A Collective can move its data out in a form other software can read. Two Collectives run by different people on different infrastructure can still talk to each other.

Held by a not-for-profit.

The core, the standards and the name will be held by the Wundr Community Foundation, a community interest company with an asset lock. That lock is a legal rule: the Foundation's assets can only be used for community benefit and can't be sold off or paid out to owners. Wundr Space Ltd builds and hosts under contract to it, at documented arm's-length rates, and holds nothing exclusive.

Where the money goes.

Tickets and support are paid through a regulated payment provider that splits each payment at source between venue, artist and Collective. Nobody, including Wundr, holds client money. Every split is shown to every party before an event is published.

What travels and what stays.

Public things — venue and artist profiles, events, releases — can be shared across connected Collectives. Private things — supporter data, messages, finances, decisions — stay with the Collective that holds them. Supporter analytics are aggregate by default; a supporter is named to a venue or artist only when they choose.

Safety, rights and access.

Rights are checked when work is uploaded, with a takedown process built in. Reporting and moderation tools ship with the template. Access needs (step-free, hearing loop, captions and the rest) are part of the event model, not an afterthought. Consent for marketing and messaging is opt-in.

Host it or self-host.

Deploy from the open template on your own infrastructure, or let Wundr Space host it and keep it compliant. Either way the Collective owns its instance and can move it.

Questions we ask of everything we build.

Short list, from the Foundation's manifesto:

• Does it increase or diminish people's agency?
• Does it deepen or replace relationships?
• Does it invite participation or passive consumption?
• Does it build capability or dependency?
• Does it strengthen community or leave people more alone?
• Does it protect attention or capture it?
• Who becomes stronger because it exists, and who might become weaker?