OAE for bioregional software?

We are absolutely on the same page here @Lynn Foster! I have a bubble map on the wall above my desk where the central bubble says "federated neighbourhoods", and I wrote a long thread about this just recently;

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116207592054780514

A few precedents worth exploring;

*  Merri-bek Tech, in northern Naarm (Melbourne): https://tv.lumbung.space/w/nzuB248U2LQA1LCn7vYmER (I think @Mayel de Borniol el shared this one with me)

* The Tŵt local fediverse app in Wales: https://newsfromwales.co.uk/welsh-social-media-network-twt-now-open-to-the-public/

* The pilot project Aral Balkan ran in Ghent: https://devjourney.info/Guests/280-AralBalkan.html. Aral and I don't always agree on the finer points of politics, but I have huge respect for their work with Indi.ie and the Small Web Foundation, and particularly the commitment to making ethics central to the tech they design and deploy.

Thanks for sharing this @Lynn Foster !  Fwiw I always see bioregional projects, networks and governance as part of a broader goal which I label as inclusive organizing, prosocial organizing, self-organizing or cosmo-local organizing. Most bioregional tools and techniques can and ultimately should, I think, operate as components or extensions of generic prosocial organizing technology.  However, bioregional is a powerful fulcrum!  This reminds me of a LinkedIn post by Ann Stapleton.  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ann-stapleton-4473717_we-invest-in-local-programs-and-chase-federal-activity-7407056160647929856-54eN/   That post made me ask myself which systems work best at regional scales, and here are my preliminary answers:

1. Stewardship of regional ecosystems, primarily by those who live there.  

2. Trade and mutual aid networks of physical goods and physical services which internalize (instead of externalizing) all production and transportation costs (to workers, consumers and ecosystems).  Such networks could include most manifestations of guaranteed resources, mutual aid, and insurance and loan systems, even if digital accounting is global.

Such regional systems will often be seen as self-determination, although they entail human stewardship of many nonhuman organisms and resources.  Self- determination is intrinsically motivating, and can scale much more easily to the magnitude of efficient regional relationships than globally.

Another way to look at this is simply "right-sized relationships" based on equitable combinations of rights and responsibilities, or technical authorizations and accountabilities.

Regarding the framework, or work to analyze vocabularies and protocols, fyi that's the main focus of most of my personal and team projects these days, except focused on human relationships and language regardless of whichever tools (including software) we use in specific relationships or communities.  Of course, OAE has always been a powerful vision of software potentials, and has been a key catalyst for my exploration of scalable systems.