Imagine each city was a sanctuary for life, and we're all together in this. How would we organize and coordinate our efforts so that everyone's needs are met?

This repository is an exploratory work on discovering forms to organize a community with a collaborative mindset.

For the things that are built here, the framework of choice is Elm, just because it's a fun language to work with. Making decisions based on joy is also something I can get behind.

The target platforms is the web, and mobile by the use of progressive web apps.

Temporarily you can find the experiments at https://santuario.zequez.space (It's in spanish for now!)

(if it fails to load keep trying, CloudFlare sometimes doesn't like IPFS, if anyone knows how to fix this please tell me, if it keeps failing I'll just use Github pages, Netlify or something like that)

The purpose of this repository is not only to build, but also to document existing tools that can be used by communities to work better together to meet everyone's needs.

There are many tools out there that were built for specific purposes and that work marvelous. Some of these tools may not scale on a decentralized fashion or may not be open source. Nevertheless it's worth giving them a shot. Besides, with enough love, these could be ported to decentralized technology or could be open sourced.

There are also promising tools in development that are yet not ready for use, but are worth keeping an eye on.

All of this is part of the digital commons movement.

I moved all this to the Notion workspace where I'm managing all the tasks and goals of the project.

Most of the things we can build, can be designed with a playful mentality, in a way that feels like a game, which encourages joy. It's a fun to believe that app development is actually game development.

Building an app is not a magic solution, for most of these things a connection with the community is vital. We can't help unless we connect with all the actors implicated and come up with solutions through systemic thinking and non-violent communication. The city is a beautifully complex interconnected network, and as agents of social change that's part of the job.

If you know of any existing tool that can be used or have any interest on working on one, get in touch so we can document it!