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-Wild Cloud is the Civil Society Technology Foundation's reference implementation for self-hosted "cloud" infrastructure. This project empowers individuals, communities, and organizations to run their own digital services without dependency on centralized corporate platforms.
+Wild Cloud is your community's digital home—a complete toolkit for running your own cloud services, together.
 
-When released later this year, Wild Cloud will become a complete, accessible solution for operating essential digital services on infrastructure you control. It combines carefully selected open-source components into a cohesive system providing the functionality needed for self-hosted cloud services.
+Think of it as a community center for your digital life. Email, file storage, calendars, chat, video calls, websites—all the tools communities actually need, running on computers you control.
 
-By deploying Wild Cloud, individuals, communities, and organizations can:
+## What Makes It Special
 
-- Host their own cloud services.
-- Maintain full control over their data and communications.
-- Reduce or eliminate dependencies on surveillance-based platforms.
-- Build technical capacity.
-- Participate in a community of practice around independent infrastructure.
+**It's yours.** When you run Wild Cloud, you own it. No one can change the terms, raise the prices, or shut you down. Your community's digital home actually belongs to your community.
 
-The Wild Cloud project aims to start you with a simple self-hosted cloud solution that gets you set up quickly and lets you easily manage your cloud. However, it is a full solution. None of the technical foundations are stripped away. You can go deeper and extend your cloud how you see fit.
+**It's affordable.** Communities running their own infrastructure often spend less than they would on commercial subscriptions—and the money stays local instead of flowing to distant corporations.
 
-## Philosophy
+**It brings people together.** Something unexpected happens when communities build their own technology: neighbors meet each other. Setting up Wild Cloud becomes a reason to learn together, help each other, and build something you're proud of.
 
-Wild Cloud embodies the Civil Society Technology Foundation's [core principles](/about/#principles), which include:
+**It grows with you.** Start small—even a single computer. Add more services and more capacity as your community grows. The same foundation works for a family, a small organization, or a whole neighborhood.
 
-- **Self-determination by Design**: Users control their data and computing environment.
-- **Open Source, Always**: All components are free to use, study, modify, and share.
-- **Self-Hosting Infrastructure**: Direct control reduces dependency and vulnerability.
-- **Transparent Governance**: All components have clear, accountable governance.
-- **Practical Autonomy**: Infrastructure that users can understand and maintain.
+## What You Can Do
 
-By providing this reference implementation, we demonstrate that digital self-determination is not merely theoretical but practically achievable with current technology and modest resources.
+With Wild Cloud, your community can:
 
-## Architecture
+- **Send email** that no one else is reading
+- **Share files** without corporate surveillance  
+- **Coordinate calendars** for your organization
+- **Chat and video call** on your own terms
+- **Host websites** for your community's projects
+- **Collaborate on documents** without sending everything to the cloud
 
-Wild Cloud allows individuals, communities, and organizations (cloud operators) to install and manage a full, standard, Kubernetes cluster made of a few or many computers on their own premises. Kubernetes manages much of the complexity of maintaining the health of your cloud and managing the applications deployed in it. The Wild Cloud project provides a set of reference "stacks" that can be deployed on this Kubernetes cluster. These stacks combine best-of-breed open source software applications to enable productivity, communication, collaboration, and intelligence applications and more.
+And because it's all open source, you can see exactly how it works, change what you need, and share improvements with other communities.
 
-## Check it out!
+## Who It's For
 
-The Wild Cloud project is developed and supported by a community of practitioners.
+Wild Cloud works for all kinds of neighbors:
 
-Learn more at the [Wild Cloud website](https://mywildcloud.org).
+- **Families** who want to share photos and stay connected without Big Tech watching
+- **Small organizations** who need professional tools without enterprise prices
+- **Community groups** who want a digital home that reflects their values
+- **Activists and advocates** who need secure, independent infrastructure
+- **Anyone** who's ever wished they could just run their own version of the services they depend on
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+## How It Works
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+Wild Cloud runs on Kubernetes—the same technology that powers much of the internet. But you don't need to be a Kubernetes expert to use it.
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+We've done the work of selecting, configuring, and integrating the best open source applications into "stacks" that work well together. You get the benefits of professional-grade infrastructure without having to figure it all out yourself.
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+And when you have questions, you're not alone. A community of practitioners shares knowledge, helps troubleshoot problems, and improves the tools together.
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+## Getting Started
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+Wild Cloud is being built by a community of neighbors who believe everyone deserves to own their digital home.
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+Whether you're technically experienced or just curious, there's a place for you.
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+Come see what communities are building together.