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If a stack like this made sense (and I don't know that it does, hence canvassing opinion), it would potentially offer ppl without deep tech skills, but with a degree of formal clarity about what they want to do, to build and host services relatively cheaply (time and money).

I can't see that wiki would not be possible in this context, since the core functionality is very lightweight.

i'm not sure that it would offer a great 'content creator' experience, though - although I am really speculating r/n.

Dil, that looks interesting, and maybe worth adapting for an even less technical readership?

For my part, in this area, my focus is on knowledge commons, and how we can provide web tools for distributed knowledge management and connection of useful knowledge. Sure, that is only one aspect, but for me a very vital one. I'm wondering, is there scope for collaboration in these areas?

My thoughts are partly written in my (rather inadequate and not really up to the job) wiki, at https://wiki.simongrant.org/doku.php?id=t:connecting_useful_knowledge

I'd be interested in any feedback on this - a work in progress proposition for making it possible for our technical needs as we 'scale out' what we hope will be many, many small community apps, which will need to be strongly localised.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17E6RB7H1WXj0McC9zLM3ilz7ExIgZl95lTCmo17r4nU/edit?usp=sharing

Hi @Ben Dunn Flores I just discovered these folks who share similar goals to you, so you may want to get in touch with them too - hope this helps? Oli https://sun-coop.github.io/

Hi @Ben Dunn Flores good to see you at the Meetup - and thanks for posting about your project... Did you see Nick's questions below...? Would be great if you could share a bit more so folks here can offer you advice... you might also want to chat to someone at https://www.catalystcollective.org/contact/ ;)

I'd love more housing co-ops! looking on your website, I didn't get how the ownership works, who is in the Community Land Trust that owns the property? and what is "the platform" that needs 10% of the CLT ground rent to run? are you a co-op too? how does it relate to https://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/? thanks!

We're working on replacing private renting with housing co-ops, and thanks to all the people we spoke to yesterday!

We're now exploring a variety of MVPs, including apps to help co-op homes run smoothly. If you live in a co-op home and feel like there's a part of life that takes way too long and is way too frustrating, please get in touch.

Looking forward to future meetups,

Ben

PS: our website is rentless.co, and my email is [email protected]

@Josh Fairhead , posted this update via email (and gave me permission to share it here) which contains some useful info and links ;)

Good to hear from you, especially the update on Planet. There's some really useful work there!

It's probably relevant to share that we (LunarPunk Labs) won the Odyssey hacakthons SSI track last year with something similar called 'Hermitage' if you scroll to the bottom of the page here, and are just in the process of booting the 'business' up again... 

We'll be providing methodology development and ontological design to the ReFi space (I ended up as 'ledger governance coordinator' for a while). We're working with their science team at the min to boot up a 'ReSci' DAO. Eventually we hope to convene scientific experts to direct said regeneration, but for now we're working on helping Ethic hub provide small holder farmers loans to bypass the sharks in Mexico - which is a project already touching lives.

Either way, I thought it might be useful to share our Holochain codebase, which is admittedly a bit stale by now, but may aid some front end development on planet? You can download download this preto-type here (and it runs a little bit): https://github.com/LunarPunk-Labs/hermitage (or perhaps this repo... things were pretty chaotic during the hack). 

Defiantly messy and needs some proper design either way, that said there is some pretty decent work here as well with user stories.

Hope you get some good upcycling from this ;)

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