# Central Services

The following services are used in the day-to-day work of being a steward:

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-name-software-purpos" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 128px;"><colgroup><col style="width: 19.7804%;"></col><col style="width: 13.5997%;"></col><col style="width: 66.7133%;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 32px;"><td style="height: 32px;">Name</td><td>Software</td><td style="height: 32px;">Purpose</td></tr><tr style="height: 32px;"><td style="height: 32px;">[Consensus](https://consensus.websiteleague.org)</td><td>Loomio</td><td style="height: 32px;">The core voting platform.</td></tr><tr style="height: 32px;"><td style="height: 32px;">[Coordination](https://coordination.websiteleague.org)</td><td>Zulip</td><td style="height: 32px;">Real-time chat, like Slack.</td></tr><tr style="height: 32px;"><td style="height: 32px;">[Information](https://information.websiteleague.org)</td><td>Bookstack</td><td style="height: 32px;">Shared Wiki and reference material, like Confluence (you're here right now!)</td></tr><tr><td>[Planning](https://planning.websiteleague.org)</td><td>Vikunja</td><td>Project and Task tracking, like Jira.</td></tr><tr><td>[Authentication](https://authentication.websiteleague.org)</td><td>KeyCloak</td><td>Single Sign On (SSO) provider, like Active Directory</td></tr></tbody></table>

Anybody can sign up for these services and view the work behind stewardship, even without being a steward themself.

As a new/prospective steward, you should first sign up for [Authentication](https://authentication.websiteleague.org). Then you can log into these other services, including Zulip/Coordination, and introduce yourself! Should you want to do work within each of these systems steward, you should ask for permissions for each service you plan to use: they each have their own access control systems internally (yep).