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About OpenRockets

OpenRockets Inc. is an American nonprofit infrastructure provider founded and operated by young people under the age of 20. Based in New York, we are building a growing international community with members and collaborators across the Americas, Europe, APAC, Oceania, Southern Africa, and other regions. is a nonprofit organization built around a diverse set of ideas. Originally launched as the OpenRockets Foundation in the Asia-Pacific region and fiscally sponsored by The Hack Foundation in 2025, OpenRockets has since grown into an independent volunteer community with contributors across multiple continents. Today, our team consists of volunteers who care about building useful tools, supporting young creators, and making technology more accessible. We are building an ecosystem of projects focused on helping good ideas, meaningful work, creativity, and knowledge find a lasting place online.

One part of this work is ZeroProfit, which we think of as a record label for nonprofits. We believe legitimate nonprofit organizations should have a place to exist online without having to rely on temporary-looking subdomains, forgotten pages, or platforms that could disappear tomorrow. We have seen thousands of nonprofits doing meaningful work from addresses such as appleclub.vercel.app or sites.google.com/... . These organizations may be creating real value in their communities, yet they often lack a digital home that truly belongs to them. ZeroProfit is being built to help change that. Our goal is to provide legitimate nonprofit organizations with a place where they can be hosted, supported, and given a more permanent digital identity. We are a network of nonprofits that are changing the world.

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This mission is also personal to us.

When we were children, we experienced firsthand how easily the things we create can disappear. One of our team members remembers making origami creations at the age of seven or eight, only for those creations to eventually disappear from a family photo archive. Something that had been created with care and imagination was simply gone. Experiences like these coined us a new lesson. The Intellectual Property of Minors.

That idea is part of the reason we built Open Rockets Press. We want to create places where ideas, research, creativity, and knowledge can be preserved and shared rather than lost in the noise of the internet. We are also building the Interkid Browser and Interkid.org, an internet experience designed with young people in mind. Some of us have personally experienced the shock and discomfort of encountering unnecessary or inappropriate content online at a young age. We do not want other young people to experience the same thing.

Young people deserve a web that is safer, more thoughtful, and built around curiosity rather than exploitation. Our work also includes projects such as Scienteen, where we are exploring new ways for young people and researchers to share ideas. Whether it is a research preprint submitted to a journal or an eggshell painting submitted to a preprint repository, we believe creativity and knowledge should have a place to be documented, discovered, and remembered. Together, these projects reflect a broader vision. We are exploring how the internet can become a place where nonprofits can have homes, ideas can have archives, young people can have safer spaces, and creations can have a chance to endure.

Our Mission

We believe teenagers are capable of building meaningful things when they have access to the right opportunities and support. Rather than focusing on a single program, OpenRockets develops projects across education, publishing, developer infrastructure, open source software, and youth initiatives. Every project shares the same goal of helping people under 18 learn, create, and contribute with confidence.

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To support our infrastructure, we offer paid services and memberships for nonprofits, organizations, and adult-run startups. Revenue from these services helps operate and improve OpenRockets. Any surplus is reinvested into our infrastructure or directed toward charitable initiatives that align with our mission.

Protecting Young Creators

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Young creators deserve clear ownership of the work they create. One area we are actively working on is developing licensing standards designed specifically for projects created by minors. Together with volunteer legal contributors and researchers from the open source community, we are developing three licenses called OpenRockets Kangaroo, OpenRockets Hummingbird, and OpenRockets Beaver. Their goal is to help young creators better understand and protect their intellectual property.

These licenses are currently in development and will be available through OpenRockets Press.

Join Us

OpenRockets is built by volunteers from around the world. Whether you are a developer, designer, writer, researcher, educator, or simply someone who wants to contribute, we would love to hear from you. Our hiring process is intentionally informal. Sometimes it starts with a conversation about your interests. Sometimes it starts with a game of chess. We care more about curiosity, collaboration, and thoughtful decision making than rigid interviews. As a teen-led organization, we also welcome experienced adults who are interested in helping with governance and board responsibilities as we continue to grow.

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