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ASK-Solutions is the public-facing name of the IRADIS Foundation, an independent research and development institute organised as a Dutch non-profit foundation.
The foundation pursues public-benefit objectives rooted in questions concerning knowledge, freedom, responsibility, human development, cooperation, and the relationships between people, organisations and society. These questions are not confined to any one discipline and form the basis for research, experimental development, knowledge sharing and practical applications.
Our philosophical and societal principles give rise to themes that guide our research, development and practical applications. These include shared knowledge, cooperation, social connection, learning and participation, practical freedom, repairability, privacy and self-reliance. From these themes emerge projects in which we explore questions, develop knowledge and put ideas into practice.
Our projects put the foundation's research, development and knowledge sharing into practice in different ways. Some produce software, hardware or documentation, while others bring together people, knowledge and practical activities or investigate societal questions. Below, we highlight a selection of our projects. For the full overview, see Projects.
ongoing research project
Repair and Ownership is an ASK-Solutions project that examines the practical meaning of ownership: being able to understand, use, maintain, repair, modify and continue using what you own. The project predates the present-day Right to Repair movement and therefore takes a broader view, also looking at digital locks, accounts, subscriptions, licences, interoperability and other forms of dependency that can limit an owner’s control.
Lees meer over het Repair-and-Ownership-project…
current free software development project
Nocterra is a general-purpose free-software CMS for building and managing websites over the long term. The project focuses on fast, accessible and maintainable websites that remain transferable, so that site owners can retain control over their content and technical environment over time.
Lees meer over het Nocterra-project…
Bezoek de Nocterra-website…
not currently active research and educational project
IslamicScience was an educational and publishing project about the history of science, mathematics, architecture, manuscripts and technology in Islamic civilisation. It built on subjects that Hüseyin had already been studying for some time and had previously also used within the guidance work carried out in collaboration with Stichting Witte Tulp to support interest, motivation and cultural confidence. Within IslamicScience, these subjects took on a distinct project and publishing form. The website ran on Synergos.
Lees meer over het IslamicScience-project…
not currently active educational development project
The Cosmicus A340 simulator was one of the first official projects of ASK-Solutions. It was carried out with Stichting Cosmicus in Amsterdam and funded by the then Dutch Ministry of Education. Flight simulation, simulator hardware and software, and building a real simulator together formed a practical learning environment for children with fewer opportunities.
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ongoing free software development project
Bookkeeping is a free software administration platform developed by ASK-Solutions. Standard accounting packages did not provide the required combination of financial, organisational and technical functions, while comparable bespoke solutions were costly and created dependencies on suppliers.
Lees meer over het Bookkeeping-project…
ongoing research, development and educational project
The Owl’s Nest is an ASK-Solutions project based on a shareable work model in which people can make, repair, learn, share knowledge and take part in meaningful practical activities together. Operators give that model concrete form at their own locations.
Lees meer over het The-Owl’s-Nest-project…
Bezoek de The-Owl’s-Nest-website…
Read our latest and recently updated articles on technology, society and our own projects, alongside announcements from ASK-Solutions.
Two critical PHP flaws required action on 21 October 2026. All affected environments under our management have been patched. On parallel PHP versions, backports and checking the code that is actually running.
A game you own should not become unusable when its original console fails. On ownership, lasting playability and the freedom to use your collection on other hardware.
Multi-factor authentication is useful security, but it can become a privacy problem when companies collect more personal data than needed and treat security data as profile data.
Synology MailPlus Server 4.1.0-21778 contains two regressions affecting DKIM-only configurations: Rspamd is not started when only per-domain DKIM signing requires it, and changes to the DKIM signing Allow List do not regenerate the Rspamd signing network map. We analyse both problems and provide patches.
The Trump administration's effort to obtain phone records of New York Times journalists and relatives in the Air Force One leak investigation shows why source protection is not a professional perk, but a First Amendment safeguard.
ASK-Solutions works on free software, documentation, hosting, web service support, repair, digital autonomy and the sharing of practical technical knowledge. Much of this work happens online, or is documented in a way that can also be useful beyond Haarlem and the Netherlands.
Holiday greetings from ASK-Solutions for 2024, reflecting on a challenging year and why privacy, freedom, ownership and Right to Repair matter more than ever.
Our ISP is migrating to a new technology. During the next few days you may experience slightly reduced availability when contacting us.
A major power grid outage in Haarlem impacted our data center and internet links, causing partial downtime. We provide live updates as services are restored.
Holiday greetings from ASK-Solutions: thank you for your support in 2022. We’ll keep defending privacy and the right to repair in 2023, plus a New Year referral promotion.
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