Community workshop – The Owl’s Nest

ASK-Solutions operates local implementations of The Owl’s Nest and connects practical technical, educational and social work.

ASK-Solutions is a non-profit foundation that combines technical development, digital support, education, repair, publishing and social work. Within The Owl’s Nest, ASK-Solutions acts as the responsible operator for the locations listed below. This operator role is one part of the wider work of ASK-Solutions and does not define The Owl’s Nest as a whole.

The locations share the identity and principles of The Owl’s Nest, while ASK-Solutions remains responsible for the organisational, legal and practical conditions of its own local implementation. Other operators can develop different local forms, audiences and priorities within the same shared model.

Local responsibility

As an operator, ASK-Solutions is responsible for matters such as:

• the organisational and legal basis of its locations;
• insurance, administration, finances and local agreements;
• safety, access, staffing and available capacity;
• the practical facilities and activities offered at each location;
• professional cooperation, referrals and participation routes;
• local funding, goals, target groups and reporting;
• the careful use of the shared identity and HPL framework.

The specific implementation of these responsibilities varies by location and activity. The relevant location and activity pages therefore describe the current access arrangements, facilities, capacity and practical agreements.

One organisation, several kinds of work

ASK-Solutions is one public-benefit organisation. Technical development, digital support, education, repair, publishing and social work are connected ways of working towards the same underlying goals.

ASK-Media-Solutions, ASK-ICT-Solutions and ASK-Technology-Solutions provide specialised public routes to particular areas of ASK-Solutions’ work. They were developed to make different kinds of technical and digital work easier to recognise, but they do not represent separate companies or independent organisations.

Their websites provide focused entry points for subjects such as digital publication, systems and data, free software, electronics and technical development. The activities presented through these names are carried out by ASK-Solutions as part of its wider public-benefit, technical, educational and social mission.

Local application of a wider mission

ASK-Solutions works more broadly on shared knowledge, free software and hardware, privacy, digital freedom, technical self-reliance, repair, ownership, practical learning and participation. Its locations within The Owl’s Nest are one way in which parts of this mission become locally accessible through people, facilities and practical activity.

The operator pages below explain which audiences ASK-Solutions seeks to reach through its current local implementation and how its wider organisational goals are applied there. They do not replace the complete organisation-wide information on the ASK-Solutions website.