A campaign in a box

Your org, your stack, your data.

A campaign for [issue]. Built and run by [people]. Find us, join us, support the work.

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n3-pia · the actual hardware ★ ★ ★

$0 License fees

7 Services, one compose file

~$10 Per month, SMTP relay

$149 For the actual server

Why this stack

A thousand neighbourhood lists will out-organize any single national list. — The thesis

This site, plus a newsletter system, plus a live writing pad — runs entirely on free, open-source software your org controls. Nothing rented from Substack, Squarespace, or Mailchimp. The whole thing is one docker-compose.yml file you can fork, modify, and host anywhere.

If you're seeing this page, your starter stack is working. Now make it yours.

What's running

replaces · Squarespace

MkDocs Material

The site you're reading. Markdown in, static site out.

replaces · Mailchimp

Listmonk

Email lists and campaigns. No per-contact billing, your sending reputation.

replaces · Google Docs

CryptPad

End-to-end encrypted collaborative pads. No Google account.

replaces · Cloudflare Tunnel

Pangolin / Newt

Outbound tunnel to a public TLS endpoint. No exposed ports.

replaces · Stack Overflow Teams

Apache Answer

Member Q&A and a public help centre that grows over time.

replaces · SSH + vim

Code Server

Browser-based VS Code for editing the site from any device.

replaces · a half-built index.html

Homepage

Service dashboard at lander.<your-domain>. One door for staff and members.

replaces · nothing

The repo itself

Every config, every secret-template, every diagram. Forkable.

How to edit this site

01

In a text editor on your laptop. Open a markdown file under docs/, edit, save. The container rebuilds automatically.

02

Through Git. Clone the repo, edit, commit, push. Pull on the server — the site rebuilds.

03

Hand it off to a generalist. Markdown is plain text. Anyone on your team can write it.

Read the install guide →

Where to next

Research — what we've found, what we're learning.

Writing — short pieces from the room.

Resources — the tools and patterns we recommend.

Subscribe — get our updates by email.

// stack: mkdocs · listmonk · cryptpad · pangolin · code-server · homepage co-designed at PIA 2026 · maintained by The Bunker Operations