Building since 2010
Sarapis advances the movement for open source abundance by building practical solutions for people doing good in New York City and beyond.
A community-maintained catalog of civic technology projects from around the world, curated by and for the people building them.
Open data standards (HSDS) and tools that connect people to health and human services.
An award-winning transparency tool that combines over 50 official NYC open datasets — agencies, people, jobs, capital projects, schools, districts and procurement — into one searchable picture of how city government works.
A nonprofit initiative creating and coordinating civic tech projects that give New Yorkers tools for meaningful engagement with their city government.
Sarapis supports the Sahana Software Foundation — including the rebuild of sahanafoundation.org as a fast, open, Git-based site with a Keystatic CMS.
Community-run maps and tools for keeping neighborhood infrastructure in good repair.
Directory and coordination tools for NYC mutual-aid groups.
Connecting NYC government technology with the United Nations digital public goods ecosystem — both headquartered in New York.
Since 2010, Sarapis has helped nonprofits, community groups, and public agencies build technology they can actually own — free to run, study, share, and improve.
We're a New York-incorporated 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We believe the technology public-interest work depends on shouldn't be rented from vendors or locked inside someone else's cloud — it should belong to the people and organizations it serves. So we work in the open with free/libre/open-source tools, and everything we make goes back to the commons.
In practice that's three kinds of work: delivering complete open-source solutions, facilitating the coalitions civic technology takes to build, and stewarding the open-source platforms the public sector relies on. Our projects span open government, human services, emergency management, and the collaborative economy — in New York City and across the global open-source movement.
