α · News · 2025-11-19

Indonesia anchor: alphabell adds a physical node in Bali

A fourth physical anchor — a small co-located shared workspace — opens in Ubud, Bali, joining the Bay Area, Colombo, and Hong Kong anchors.

The Ubud anchor is operated under the same template as the others: shared but reservable workspace, no employer-of-record, no presumption that any contributor is required to physically work there. The decision was approved through the standard signed-proposal process; the quorum was 47 long-tenured contributors voting in favour, 3 against, and 11 abstentions.

The motivation, per the proposal text, is that Southeast Asia outside the Singapore-Hong Kong corridor has not been well-represented in the lab's contributor base, and that establishing a low-cost, low-key presence in Indonesia would help with that. We expect to revisit the decision in 18 months — the proposal includes an explicit sunset clause that triggers a re-vote.

The proposal includes an explicit sunset clause that triggers a re-vote.

Practical details for contributors are available in the internal index under proposal 25-P-091.


For the protocol details behind anything mentioned above, see /governance and /charter. For the structural commitments, /about.