Appropriate Software Foundation

The Appropriate Software Foundation is a micro-consultancy for software architecture and development based in the UK.

Please contact us by email. Send us a quick message and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. We aim to reply to all enquiries within three working days. Our contact email address is: contact@appropriatesoftware.net

Operating since 2003, we help support human process with working software. We work internationally, with public and private sector organisations, governmental and non-governmental organisations, international agencies and community based organisations. The Appropriate Software Foundation was incorporated as a not-for-profit company, with the core objective to develop open source software that supports social processes and human development. We remain committed to that objective.

We have also been working towards grounding our client work in a universal approach to supporting human process with working software, something everyone can use to improve any shared situation. We want to live in a world where we can relate to each other as world developers. Through our experience of working across a broad range of domains, we have come to feel the best approach to the development of software systems and of human process is to model and propose "what happens" (actual occasions of experience). As Alfred North Whitehead has it in Process and Reality, "the actual world is built up of actual occasions".

It seems to us now, the difficulty with the classical analysis of object orientated programming is, on one hand, the involvement of the substance-quality categories and, on the other hand, the failure to understand the modern process philosophy of events. And so want to move away from the classical analysis and from using CRUD by default. We also want to move away from the Agile approach, because process is not less valuable than individuals and interactions but is rather the attainment of a final end that makes an individual and an interaction (and a software system) whatever it happens to be. The Agile manifesto fails to contribute sufficient determination to events, so that even after twenty years we can't be sure quite what will be happening in any given "agile" project. For these reasons, the Appropriate Software Foundation is becoming increasingly event-oriented.

Our "flagship" project is the library for event sourcing in Python, a persistence mechanism for domain driven design with examples that show how to develop distributed systems that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable.

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The Appropriate Software Foundation is a company registered in England and Wales (#04977110) and limited by guarantee. Our registered address is 34 Market Street, Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 1AH.