Oktana

Oktana is a utopian R&D collective of friends specialized in building software products. We work according to the cooperative principles, so we are democratically governed, there is no employer among us and we are not associated with the venture capital business. Oktana has a statutory political character: We stand critically against the twisted capitalist society we live in but we also understand that we are its subjects and the best we can do is criticize it from within and try to transform it. We know that creating emancipatory social forms is a collective project and this is why we strive to organize and connect with people and initiatives sharing our principles and desires. 

We know that we will not be able to directly implement our whole vision and desires. The material social structures are so tight, binding us to an endless rat race to make a living within a competitive individualistic framework where the activity of one is pitted against the activity of the other. But we need to start somewhere. We aspire to be one of those spaces where autonomous people organize themselves and care for each other, commons are built and a higher level of sharing is reached. It is important to take our time in doing things right and building our spaces with care and according to the principles we endorse and refine.