Mastodawn

Hello Fediverse! 👋 I am exploring the mechanics of how communities, cooperatives, and decentralized networks actually function and survive in the real world.

Welcome to The Governance Stress Test 🏛️🌿
(wicked guitar riff)

In this ongoing series, I plan on looking at the stress points of community-led systems. I will be posing questions backed by insights from thinkers who’s writings I’ve enjoyed like Elinor Ostrom, Murray Bookchin, Manuel DeLanda, Jane Jacobs, James C. Scott and others as a fun way to examine how resilient our systems truly are when it comes to dispute resolution, resource management, and autonomy.

I’m not planning on this being “The Travis Shares Theory Show”. I want to hear about your real-world experiences, case studies, and critiques.

How to follow along:

To catch every post follow this dedicated hashtag: #GovStressTest

I'm looking forward to learning from all of you!

#Introduction #GovStressTest #Decentralization #CivicTech #AdaptiveGovernance #Community

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dan 🌼12h ago

@travislf Ahh no way, that's so nice to hear!

Your project sounds very interesting - excited to see what you're building and will definitely keep in touch.

I've put goodneighbours to the side to deal with a barrage of other things, but hoping to step back into it when everything else quietens down. This is certainly a nice bit of motivation so thanks for reaching out!

dan 🌼Mar 12

I love finding websites that make you think "if this had the traffic of tiktok for like an hour, the whole world would change for the better."

https://www.futuresindraft.com

Home - Futures in Draft

Futures in Draft

dan 🌼Feb 18

OccuWorld Feb 18

Plans for solar thermal, PV, Wind, Heating, Cooling, Cooking, and energy saving projects for Do It Yourselfers

https://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Projects.htm

and way more. free plans and details. no sign-up, just do it.

#BuildItSolar #Free #PlansAndDetails #OpenSource

dan 🌼Feb 18

Someone shared this site with me as it serves a very similar purpose to the directory I've spent the last few months building.

Already chatting with one of their devs to see if there's any knowledge we can swap 💚

If these were for-profit ventures, this situation would be devastating, but instead it's an opportunity to learn, share experience and build together.

#community #dev

https://www.resilienceweb.org.uk/

Resilience Web

A web of connections, showing local groups working to co-create a more socially and environmentally just city.

dan 🌼Feb 16

dan 🌼Feb 15

Here goes nothing!

goodneighbours is an open source community directory framework, to create:

🌼 single source of truth open data for local community support
🌼 user-friendly way for people to find and engage with organisations

First attempt at an open source project - any guidance appreciated!

#opensource #buildinpublic #community #solarpunk #dev

https://github.com/deelion/goodneighbours

GitHub - deelion/goodneighbours: An open source community directory framework.

An open source community directory framework. Contribute to deelion/goodneighbours development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

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dan 🌼Feb 16

@SamLeLuxo Ahh amazing, I'll give that a go then!

That's interesting - the first app I tried to build when I started dabbling in web apps was a lending app with personal and community inventories of stuff you're happy to lend out.

It was a bit too complex for me in the end but definitely agree something like that would be so helpful!

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dan 🌼Feb 16

@SamLeLuxo that's interesting, thanks! Doesn't seem to be available in my area, but I'll see if I can take a look at what it does.

First impression is it looks like a similar idea to Nextdoor, but making an active effort to avoid it just being a place to complain about stuff (which is pretty much all is on my local Nextdoor!)

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dan 🌼Feb 16

@raphaelmorgan thanks, that would be great! I'm sure the documentation (and probably the framework itself) will need some work once other people start using it, so please do let me know if you run into any problems!

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dan 🌼Feb 16

@unhingedhacker thank you!