How access works.
You have arrived at a door rather than a login box, and that is on purpose. Access to these systems is granted by relationship and by named programme, so there is nothing here to sign into and nothing here that will tell you your details are wrong. This page says exactly what exists today and how to start.
There is no self-serve account
No system here has open sign-up, and none of them has a public login. That is a deliberate property of local-first software, not a gap in the website. Nothing you can do on this page will create an account, and nothing here will ask you for a password.
Access is granted by named programme
Where a system is not yet generally released, the way in is a validation-partner programme: a small number of named organisations, each with a scope written down, running the software against their own material and reporting back what breaks. Places are opened deliberately and are not always open.
Where a system is released, it is a download
A released system is installed and run locally. There is no tenancy to be provisioned and no portal to be issued. Each system's own page states which of these two states it is in, in its own words, and that line is kept current on purpose.
How to start
Two doors, and they go to different desks. The waiting list on a system's own page registers you for that one system and nothing else, and it is the right door if you want to be told when access opens. The partnership intake is the right door if you are proposing an evaluation, a build, or a specific piece of work.
One thing worth saying out loud, because most sites do not: this page will exist in a different form the day there are accounts to sign into. Until then a sign-in control here would be a claim about a user base rather than a way in, and this site does not make claims it cannot stand behind.