--- title: "About" --- **[data.coop]({{< ref "/" >}})** is an association and a cooperative. The community consists of members around the Copenhagen-area and is open to inquiries from abroad to start sister infrastructures based on the same principles. If you are interested in becoming a member of data.coop but you are not able to participate in physical meetings in Copenhagen, we encourage that you get in touch with us about a vision you have for your community, rather than signing up as a member. We — the members of the cooperative — own our own data. In practice, this means that: * We own our own hardware. * We only use Open Source Software. The cooperative owns 2 rack servers, of which one is in use and one is spare. You can find us here: * Matrix: [#data.coop:data.coop](https://matrix.to/#/#data.coop:data.coop) * IRC (Libera.chat): #data.coop * Our [Forgejo server](https://git.data.coop/data.coop/) * In the Fediverse/Mastodon: @datacoop@data.coop