Contact
We would be glad to hear from you. If your team is trying to understand what open source you depend on, decide what to adopt, prepare for SBOM or compliance review, make a governance path easier to follow, evaluate AI tooling, or work with an ecosystem you rely on, send a short note and we can talk through a useful first step.
General inquiries: howdy@therangergroup.org
What to send
What happens next
We will read what you send, clarify the shape of the work, and suggest a practical next step. That may be a focused assessment, a small pilot, a practice review, a stewardship planning conversation, or a note that another path would serve you better.
Engagement shape
We do not publish a fixed rate card because the right scope depends on the decision, stakeholders, timeline, procurement path, and deliverable your team actually needs. We will clarify the shape of the work before proposing a budget.
A short, fixed-scope review of an open source dependency question, SBOM need, AI tooling concern, or ecosystem risk.
A small evaluation or decision-support pilot for a project, tool, framework, vendor path, or shared component.
Practical help turning policy into ownership, review paths, workflows, training, and operating routines.
A focused plan for contribution, maintainer support, sponsorship, peer collaboration, or shared investment.
For state, local, education, and government-adjacent teams, a pilot, assessment, or limited purchase order can be a better first step than a broad proposal. We aim to be a practical partner: understand the procurement context, communicate value to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and avoid asking teams to buy more than they are ready to use.
We work with public sector teams, universities, nonprofits, civic technology groups, government contractors, and mission-driven enterprises. Public-sector teams can also review the state and local open source readiness path.
Not ready to reach out?
The guide can help your team gather useful context when a dependency, compliance review, adoption decision, SBOM conversation, governance effort, stewardship question, or AI tooling evaluation becomes important.
AI questions
Review the AI and open source governance path if the decision involves models, frameworks, dependencies, licensing, procurement, or internal use policy.
