<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>BarefootProgrammers — notes</title><description>A group of professionals with backgrounds in technology, economics, psychology and social work, building software at community scale on the principle of tech sovereignty.</description><link>https://barefootprogrammers.in/</link><item><title>Tech sovereignty as a principled way of solving technical problems</title><link>https://barefootprogrammers.in/notes/tech-sovereignty-as-a-principle/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://barefootprogrammers.in/notes/tech-sovereignty-as-a-principle/</guid><description>Community control of data, compute and usage is not only an ethical position. It is a design constraint, and it produces better answers to ordinary engineering questions.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How community-based technology solutions can be sustainable</title><link>https://barefootprogrammers.in/notes/sustainable-community-technology/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://barefootprogrammers.in/notes/sustainable-community-technology/</guid><description>Community-scale software fails at the handover, not the build. What it takes for a tool to still be running in a village three years after the grant ends.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>