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Paid role or small contract
Where budget and a real operational need exist, we define scope, hours, compensation and legal form in a separate written agreement before work begins.
Opportunity-dependentBuild with Farleda
Help build the journeys you want to take.
Contribute product feedback, data research, design or a clearly scoped project. We agree scope, rights, supervision and any compensation before work starts. No funded vacancy is currently advertised.
Editorial review
Ways to work together
One mission. Different commitments.
Every arrangement is named before it starts. We do not label ordinary operational work as volunteering and we do not promise paid work before funding and scope exist.
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Student project or thesis
A school or university project with a supervisor, learning objective, deliverable, feedback cadence and explicit agreement on ownership and publication.
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Open data and shared standards
Contributions to openly licensed data or external projects follow their own rules. Farleda’s product code is currently proprietary; access and usage rights need a separate agreement.
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Community contribution
Beta feedback, route-data research, translation, event help or domain review without joining an operating team or committing to recurring hours.
Voluntary and flexibleThe product you will contribute to
Real product. Real open questions.
The current product film moves through planning, route comparison and the Trip Carbon Passport — the foundation for development, research, data work and communication.
Review the technical foundationVideo description
Farleda: understand journeys, connect Europe. The current planner captures destinations and preferences. Comparison shows duration, changes and modelled emissions. The Passport keeps a signed planning record; it does not confirm completed travel. All figures are synthetic examples. Open beta from 31 October 2026. Seeking pilot partners: farleda.eu.
Contribution areas
Bring a craft, a question or a useful obsession.
Development & infrastructure
Next.js, Astro, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, maps, routing, APIs, testing, observability and security.
Product, design & accessibility
Research, interface systems, mobile flows, inclusive design and real traveller testing.
Mobility data & climate method
GTFS quality, rail operations, uncertainty, factors, verification and transparent methodology.
Marketing, creators & community
Editorial work, social storytelling, partnerships, events and founder-community operations.
Student and research projects
A bounded semester project, thesis question or school collaboration with a real product context.
Translation & local knowledge
Language quality, corridor knowledge, destination context and accessibility information.
Working principles
Useful, kind and inspectable.
Farleda handles travel, personal data and environmental claims. Contributions therefore need a higher standard than shipping quickly at any cost.
- Respect privacy, security boundaries and responsible disclosure.
- Keep emissions claims sourced, versioned and explicit about uncertainty.
- Document decisions so another contributor can inspect and continue the work.
- Treat accessibility and internationalisation as product requirements.
- Use open data according to its licence and credit upstream communities.
- Be honest about availability; no voluntary contributor is expected to keep recurring operational hours.
How it starts
Scope before commitment.
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Application
Choose an area, link relevant work and tell us which engagement type and time window are realistic.
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Triage
We match your interest with a real need, a public issue or a suitable supervised project.
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Written scope
Paid, academic and voluntary work each receive the appropriate written scope before contribution begins.
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Review and credit
Work is reviewed, tested and credited according to your preference and the contribution agreement.
Fair contribution policy
Voluntary means voluntary.
A voluntary or open-source contribution is self-directed, can stop at any time and carries no fixed availability or operational duty. Paid roles, internships and contracts are offered only through a separate written agreement with compensation and conditions. A student project stays centred on a supervised learning outcome.
Start with the system
Read the work before proposing more work.
These are the best entry points into Farleda and the open infrastructure it depends on.
Farleda
Farleda open-source inventory
Licences, dependencies, data sources and the current contribution posture. Publishing selected project components is a future option; the open beta does not imply a public source-code release.
↗External sourceTransitous documentation
The open public-transport routing infrastructure behind European schedule alternatives.
↗External sourceOpenStreetMap
The open geographic community behind maps, places and route context.
↗Let’s talk.
Email us about your organisation, your idea or your interest in Farleda. We will discuss the next steps together.
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