A concise invitation to formalise a working Altima ecosystem—protecting its purpose, recognising what has already been built, and funding the next stage.
Altima began with a simple objection: personal computing has become less personal. Ownership has too often been replaced by subscriptions, privacy by surveillance, and useful tools by systems that depend on permission from somewhere else. Altima draws a different boundary: the operating system and local data remain under the user’s control, while subscriptions are reserved for additional commercial capability and service.
Altima restores the computer as an instrument of independence. It is built around local files, local applications, open standards and systems that continue working even when the network, vendor or founder is no longer present.
This is not nostalgia. It is a practical response to a world in which individuals, businesses and small nations increasingly rent the tools upon which they depend. Altima proposes another direction: capable technology that can be understood, repaired, extended and owned.
Altima is already a working ecosystem. The first public release appeared approximately one year ago; the Trixie Edition on 26 July 2026 marks its formal public launch, not its beginning.
A refined Debian-based operating environment for everyday work, creative independence and long-lived hardware. Altima Linux 13 is the free foundation of the wider Altima platform.
A human-readable machine identity and publishing system under Altima-controlled infrastructure.
Self-hosted publishing, translation and content creation without surrendering the work to a remote platform.
A Pacific-focused payment architecture designed to reduce leakage and preserve local commercial value.
Point of sale, accounts, reservations, folio, roster and operational software designed to work together.
Local mail and messaging infrastructure built around identity, portability and transparent administration.
Hardware discovery, driver validation, installation and recovery systems for users and refurbishers.
Language-aware publishing and application services for communities too often treated as afterthoughts.
The purpose, ownership and commercial work of Altima are deliberately separated so no single sale, investor or generation can quietly undo the whole project.
Protects the Constitution, Manifesto, principles, name, trademarks, standards and certification.
Builds products, employs people, serves customers and conducts the commercial work of Altima.
Owns the operating company for founders, contributors and approved private investors.
Altima is intended to be a genuine Vanuatu technology enterprise: founded here, administered here, serving local customers first and building outward into the Pacific and the wider world.
Vanuatu is not presented as a novelty. It is the point. The country offers the scale, independence and urgency required to ask what useful technology should look like when it is built by people for people rather than platforms. A demonstration of independence - because its achievable.
The ambition is practical: create capability, employment, ownership and durable technical knowledge in a nation more commonly treated as a market than a maker.
Altima was conceived, financed and developed over approximately six years before formal external funding. That contribution is recorded separately from future salary, dividends and investment.
The Founder Contribution includes software, source code, architecture, brands, documentation, commercial systems, research and substantial unpaid labour. It is recorded in a Founder Contribution Register at an initial notional value*.
* To be determined.
Issued by the Holding Trust in recognition of the Founders' Contribution. They represent continuing ownership and are not a substitute for future remuneration.
One or more exceptional people may be invited to join as Co-Founders. The title is conferred by invitation and accompanied by the acquisition of an agreed Founder Interest.
The initial benchmark is To be determined , paid to the Founder for an agreed transfer of existing Founder Units. Any additional investment into Altima is a separate transaction.
Altima needs guardians, builders, capital and exceptional long-term commitment. These roles may overlap, but each carries a distinct responsibility.
Protect the Constitution, principles and long-term continuity.
Provide commercial discipline, oversight and accountable leadership.
Join by invitation, acquire a Founder Interest and undertake a lasting founding role.
Provide patient capital through approved private investment arrangements.
Earn recognition through exceptional technical, operational or community contribution.
The roadmap is no longer about proving that Altima can be built. It is about making the existing work reproducible, supportable, commercially sustainable and independent of any one person.
Present the mature Altima ecosystem, its principles and the Founder's Paper as the starting point for formation.
Establish the Foundation, Holding Trust and operating company; document the IP chain, governance and Founder Contribution.
Convert existing AltimaOS and ROKPOS capabilities into supported paid products with licensing, activation, documentation, billing, testing and customer service, while keeping Altima Linux 13 freely available as the base operating system.
Secure paying AltimaOS customers, recurring service revenue, repeatable deployments and maintainers capable of operating beyond the Founder.
Build the Vanuatu and Pacific support network, OEM and refurbisher channels, multilingual capability and international partnerships.
Legal structure, IP documentation, release discipline and commercial readiness.
Team, support, licensing, sales and validated commercial deployments.
Pacific scale, resilient operations and a sustainable recurring-revenue base.
Software comes and goes.
Companies come and go.
Well-founded structures endure.
Help us build one that lasts.
If you can build, test, document, teach, fund or steward enduring technology, there is a place for you in Altima’s founding circle.
