Team operations and back-office software

Operations tool for non-profits and community teams

Space Works Workspace is a free, open-source, self-hosted operations tool for non-profits, NGOs, community offices, makerspace teams and small startups that brings projects, chat, money, people, governance and application secrets into one place.

Space Works Workspace is for the team that runs an organisation: it plans work, runs money, looks after people, keeps governance in order and manages application secrets in one place. It started with the Space Works maker community at TinkerSpace Kochi, and every record, file and secret stays on infrastructure you control, with separate workspaces, roles and an audit trail. Member-facing work lives in the sibling apps: Space Works for the makerspace, Space Works Events for events and tickets, and Space Works Organization for memberships.

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What it is: Team operations and back-office software
Status: Released · 0.6.7
For: non-profits, NGOs, community offices, makerspace operating teams, small startups
Licence: AGPL-3.0-or-later
Built with: Next.js 16, React, Prisma, PostgreSQL 16, Redis 7, BullMQ, Silo object storage, Caddy, Docker Compose (Node 22)
Works with: Google Calendar, Google Meet, Google sign-in, OIDC, Slack, Discord, Mattermost, Telegram, WhatsApp, GitHub, DigitalOcean, AWS, Vercel, Contabo
How it fits: An internal operations tool with its own installer and database. Member-facing work lives in the sibling apps: Space Works for the makerspace, Space Works Events for events and tickets, and Space Works Organization for memberships.
Source code: SpaceWorks-Workspace

What you can do

Workspace, feature by feature.

Work and projects

Projects with kanban boards, a timeline, milestones, dependencies, blockers and weekly status updates.
Tasks with assignees, priorities, subtasks, recurrence and checklists.
Meetings with agendas, decisions and action items; goals, key results, polls and ideas.
A team calendar with RSVPs, Google Calendar sync and Google Meet links.

Chat, docs and people

Channels, direct messages, threads, reactions, mentions and live updates.
Rich-text docs with revisions and SOP review reminders, and private versioned files.
Member profiles, departments, an org chart, onboarding, training, leave, attendance and volunteer hours.
Hiring, rota and shift swaps, a confidential help desk and a safety log.

Money and funding

Income and expenses, restricted funds, cost centres, budgets and month-end close.
Supplier bills, purchase requests with approvals, reimbursements and receipt uploads.
Payroll records, petty cash, and PF, ESI, PT and TDS remittances on one upcoming-dues list.
Grants, CSR, donations, donor receipts, GST invoices, and 80G and utilisation certificates.

Governance

A compliance calendar, board meetings and resolutions, vendors and contracts.
Insurance and statutory registers, risks and drills, and frozen board packs.
Restricted safeguarding and POSH cases with explicit case access.

Secrets management

Application secrets by project, environment and folder, in the spirit of Infisical.
Envelope encryption under a rotatable root key, version history and point-in-time rollback.
Masked values with audited reveal, and fresh-MFA access to production.
The sww command line and Node SDK, with machine identities and short-lived tokens.

Services, alerts and security

HTTP, TCP, DNS, TLS and heartbeat checks, incidents, on-call and public status pages.
Cloud accounts and costs for DigitalOcean, AWS, Vercel, Contabo and other providers.
Alerts by email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord and Mattermost.
Invite-only workspaces with owner, admin, member and guest roles, MFA and an audit trail.

Install

Yours to run.

Free and open source under AGPL-3.0-or-later. Your data stays in your own database.

On a Linux server

$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpaceWorks-Labs/SpaceWorks-Workspace/main/install.sh | bash

Run it as a user with sudo. Read the script first: install.sh.

Prefer the cloud? Deploy to Render in one click.

Questions

Workspace, answered.

Is Space Works Workspace free?

Yes. Space Works Workspace is free, open-source software licensed AGPL-3.0-or-later, and it is self-hosted so every record, file and secret stays on infrastructure you control.

How do I install Space Works Workspace?

Run the one-line curl installer on a 64-bit Linux server; a starting estimate is 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM with swap and 30 GB SSD. A Render Blueprint is also available for cloud hosting.

Does Space Works Workspace include a secrets manager?

Yes. Space Works Workspace stores application secrets by project, environment and folder with envelope encryption, version history and audited reveal, and ships the sww command line and Node SDK.

Does Space Works Workspace handle Indian compliance and finance?

Space Works Workspace tracks PF, ESI, PT and TDS remittances, TDS registers, GST invoices and notes, and 80G and utilisation certificates alongside budgets, funds and payroll records.

Does Space Works Workspace manage makerspace members?

No. Space Works Workspace is for the team that runs the organisation; member-facing work lives in the sibling apps: Space Works for the makerspace, Space Works Events for events and Space Works Organization for memberships.