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We are a Software Research Lab building Open Technologies for East Africa

Open Labs is pioneering next-generation technologies in Cloud, Quantum, AI, Cryptography, Virtualization, and Open Infrastructure. all through open research and community empowerment.

About Open UG Labs

Open UG Labs is a frontier research collective exploring the edges of modern computing from cryptography and virtualization technologies to intelligent systems and cloud-native infrastructure.

We push technology forward through open research, engineering excellence, community collaboration, and long-term scientific vision.

Deep Research

We investigate advanced technologies including PQC, virtualization, distributed systems, and AI autonomy.

Engineering Impact

Our teams build real technologies like Conveyor CI and experimental TLS protocols for next-gen security.

Future-Focused

We operate with long-term vision preparing Africa for quantum computing, AI infrastructure, and emerging tech fields.

Projects & Communities

We build open-source tools, support engineering communities, and accelerate frontier innovation across East Africa.

Conveyor Stack Roadmap

A long-term initiative to build a sovereign, vendor-neutral IaaS platform — evolving through open governance or independent system design.

Conveyor Stack

A multi-year program to design an open infrastructure platform comparable to OpenStack or Apache CloudStack.

Phase 1: Conveyor CI

A headless, cloud-native CI/CD orchestration engine designed as the foundation of the stack.

CNCF Sandbox Decision GateThe acceptance of Conveyor CI into the CNCF Sandbox determines governance, development model, and long-term ecosystem alignment.

Conveyor CI is evaluated for acceptance into the CNCF Sandbox. This outcome determines whether Conveyor Stack evolves through community-integrated development or through a fully sovereign stack.

Both future pathways depend on this decision.

Community-Integrated Path

Activated if Conveyor CI is accepted into the CNCF Sandbox.

Leverage existing CNCF-aligned systems and communities to accelerate development.

  • Reuse mature databases, brokers, schedulers
  • Community-driven governance
  • Focus on orchestration and integration

Sovereign Stack Path

Activated if CNCF Sandbox acceptance is not achieved.

Design and build a fully sovereign infrastructure stack from first principles.

  • Distributed embeddable document database
  • Event-based message broker
  • Custom storage, networking & compute virtualization