Within the work of Escuela Común, a process that we promote together with allied organizations throughout América, we have translated into Spanish the software Abra, developed by Co-op Cloud. This collaboration delivers to the region a new and strategic tool: software that simplifies systems administration and makes digital infrastructure management more accessible.
Abra is software that allows you to deploy, maintain, update, and back up digital platforms securely, such as cloud-type systems, video platforms, messaging systems, etc. In other words: it makes it easier for more people to assume the role of administering their own servers and digital services.
Until now, this type of tool was almost exclusively in English and aimed at highly technical profiles. That combination — language and complexity — has been a historic barrier for Latin America. With this translation, from LPML we take a concrete step to reduce that gap.
This step is not random. It is part of a broader strategy that we have been building for years: strengthening local capacities so that communities, free media, social organizations, and territorial processes can manage their own digital infrastructure. Our bet is that the command line stops being an intimidating space and becomes a gateway. That learning to deploy a platform is not an act reserved for specialists, but a collective capacity.
More technological sovereignty for the region
In Escuela Común, a space where we converge together with Sutty, Lanceros Digitales, Witness, Radios Libres, Antena Negra TV, Numérica Latina, Awana Digital, Espora, and the Centro de Autonomía Digital, we understand that technology is also territory. Managing our own servers and platforms is part of the defense of our organizational, communicative, and community processes.
Along this path, software plays a fundamental role: commands, configurations, and advanced knowledge, with Abra, become clearer, structured, and replicable. It makes systems administration more accessible and simpler to understand.
In addition, together with Co-op Cloud we are not only working on the translation. We are developing and adapting features and deployment recipes designed directly for the realities of Latin America: community contexts, small or hybrid infrastructures, specific organizational needs, and collective training processes.
Co-op Cloud is a free digital infrastructure project driven by an international network of technology cooperatives. Its objective is to make it easier for small providers, collectives, and organizations to host and manage digital services collaboratively, outside of the large corporate clouds. It is based on principles of cooperation, open source, and shared governance, betting on a more decentralized and solidaristic internet.
We will continue sharing updates, workshops, materials, and new adaptations of Abra in Spanish. We invite you to stay attentive to the upcoming activities of Escuela Común and to join this path of learning and technological sovereignty built from Latin America.
To download Abra and be part of the Abya Yala server network, follow these guides.
