Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers by Maggie Appleton

Local traditionally means something close to your home, something familiar, intimate, and trusted by you, something unique to its location, and something community-oriented, as in supporting local businesses. (View Highlight)

So there's an interpretation of local software that means software that is built close to the home and serves the needs of the home.
It’s software someone might build for themselves, their family and friends, their neighborhood and community.
It solves local problems for local people. (View Highlight)