An Operating System for Post-Scarcity Communities
Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism, Implemented 🌻✨🚀
This platform is infrastructure for building solarpunk communities based on mutual aid, gift economy, resource sharing, and collective care. It's designed to help neighborhoods and intentional communities organize themselves without money, build resilience, and create the foundations of a post-scarcity society.
The platform embodies the principle that everyone's needs can be met through cooperation, sharing, and mutual support when we have the right tools for coordination.
- Non-Monetary: No money, no crypto, no tokens. Pure gift economy and mutual aid.
- Post-Scarcity Mindset: Abundance thinking, not artificial scarcity.
- Accessible: Runs on old phones via Termux. Works offline with mesh networking.
- Privacy-Preserving: Local-first, federated, with user data sovereignty.
- Liberation Technology: AI serves humans; humans don't serve AI.
- Community-Owned: Open source, forkable, community-controlled.
- Share tools, equipment, and physical items
- Coordinate access to 3D printers, workshops, and fabrication tools
- Share robots and future technologies
- Manage community spaces (gardens, workshops, kitchens)
- Energy sharing: Solar panels, batteries, microgrid coordination
- Real-time garden harvest listings
- Volunteer time and skills in gift economy framework
- Match helpers with needs using AI agents
- Coordinate complex multi-person projects
- Track community vitality (not debt!)
- Shift swapping and coverage finding
- Express needs in natural language: "I need to fix my bike today"
- AI automatically finds tools, materials, and help
- Coordinates schedules and logistics
- Plans community events and raves
- Ensures needs are met without manual searching
- Form neighborhood groups, communes, and cooperatives
- Democratic decision-making tools
- Community space management with maintenance planning
- Chore wheel for fair responsibility distribution
- Maintenance ticket system
- Classes, workshops, and education coordination
- Community bulletin board and open requests
- Check-in support for elderly and disabled members
- Care circles and emergency alerts
- Distributed environmental sensing (weather, air quality, temperature)
- Food security (community fridges, meal trains, surplus distribution)
- Emergency and disaster mutual aid
- Peer support for mental health and wellbeing
- Request mediation from community mediators
- Restorative justice frameworks
- Community accountability without punishment
- Works offline-first
- Meshtastic integration for mesh networking
- Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) for disrupted environments
- Runs on old Android phones via Termux
- Peer-to-peer synchronization
- ActivityPub federation with other communities
- Deployment: Progressive Web App, Termux on Android, multi-platform
- Data: Local-first with CRDTs, peer-to-peer sync, community data sovereignty
- Protocols: Value Flows vocabulary, ActivityPub federation, DTN bundles
- Networking: Meshtastic mesh, WiFi Direct, Bluetooth, opportunistic sync
- AI: Open source models, transparent, privacy-preserving, community-controlled
- Identity: Decentralized identifiers (DIDs), user-controlled reputation
The platform is specified using OpenSpec for spec-driven development. All specifications are in openspec/specs/platform/:
- core-platform.md - Core principles, values, and capabilities
- resource-sharing.md - Physical items, tools, spaces, energy, robots
- time-bank.md - Skill sharing, volunteer coordination, mutual aid time
- ai-agents.md - AI coordination, matching, fulfillment, event planning
- ai-agent-integration.md - Comprehensive AI/LLM agent integration strategy 🤖
- community-governance.md - Governance, spaces, education, cooperatives, maintenance
- deployment-integration.md - Termux, offline, mesh, protocols, federation
- community-care.md - Check-ins, distributed sensing, food security, emergencies
- food-agriculture.md - Seed libraries, urban farming, food preservation, permaculture
- energy-infrastructure.md - Renewable energy systems, efficiency, alternative transportation
- water-ecology.md - Water commons, ecosystem restoration, waste reduction, circular economy
- housing-built-environment.md - Co-housing, natural building, public space transformation
- culture-technology-health.md - Community archives, maker spaces, open source tech, health systems, disability justice
- economic-solidarity.md - Worker cooperatives, solidarity economy, community investment, social movements
- future-experimental.md - Future tech, drones/robots, prefigurative politics, sovereignty
See ADDITIONAL_FEATURES.md for the inspiration document behind the extended specifications.
ROADMAP.md - Implementation roadmap ordered by anti-capitalist value chain:
- Liberation infrastructure first - Offline-first, mesh networking, encryption (Phase 1)
- Trust building - Simple features that create community bonds (Phase 2)
- Mutual aid capacity - Coordination tools that multiply what we can do together
- Liberation ratings (✊) to identify features that increase community autonomy
- Joy ratings (🌻) to identify the most delightful features
- Agent team assignments for AI-assisted development
The roadmap follows the Emma Goldman Test: "Does this increase community autonomy, or create new dependencies?"
AI_AGENT_STRATEGY.md - Comprehensive strategy for leveraging AI/LLM agents throughout the platform
This document details 10 specialized AI agents and how they proactively coordinate community life:
- 🎯 Resource Matchmaker - Anticipates needs, assembles solutions
- ⏰ Time Coordinator - Optimizes schedules, prevents burnout
- 💚 Community Health - Monitors wellbeing, prevents isolation
- 🌱 Food Systems - Predicts harvests, prevents waste
- ⚡ Energy Optimizer - Balances generation and usage
- 🎉 Event Planner - Organizes celebrations and gatherings
- 📚 Learning Guide - Personalized skill development
- 🤝 Conflict Mediator - Early intervention, restorative justice
- 🚨 Emergency Coordinator - Rapid crisis response
- 🔍 Pattern Recognition - Identifies trends and opportunities
The vision: AI handles boring coordination so humans focus on creativity, connection, and joy.
- AI Rave Planning: AI agent plans community parties based on preferences and schedules
- Distributed Weather Stations: Old phones become community sensor network
- Robot Sharing: Future-forward support for sharing autonomous robots
- Energy Commons: Peer-to-peer solar energy sharing and microgrid coordination
- Mesh Networking: Works without internet via Meshtastic LoRa mesh
- Chore Wheel: Fair distribution of community responsibilities
- Garden Availability: Real-time listing of what's ready to harvest
- Care Circles: Coordinated support for vulnerable community members
- No surveillance or tracking
- Local-first data storage
- End-to-end encryption
- User-controlled identity and reputation
- Opt-in for all data sharing
- Community data sovereignty
- Offline-first architecture
- Mesh networking for infrastructure independence
- Delay Tolerant Networking for intermittent connectivity
- Runs on minimal hardware (old phones!)
- Energy efficient for solar charging
- Federated and peer-to-peer
This platform is inspired by:
- Solarpunk: Optimistic, ecological, community-focused futures
- Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism: Abundance for all, technology serving liberation
- Mutual Aid: "Solidarity not charity" - Peter Kropotkin
- Gift Economy: Giving freely, receiving graciously, without obligation
- Commons-Based Peer Production: Collective creation outside market and state
- Appropriate Technology: Tools that empower communities, not corporations
- Post-Scarcity: We have enough for everyone; the question is distribution and coordination
- ❌ Not a marketplace or platform for selling
- ❌ Not using cryptocurrency or blockchain
- ❌ Not about "disrupting" or creating startups
- ❌ Not surveillance capitalism or extractive tech
- ❌ Not trying to scale to billions of users
- ❌ Not venture-funded or profit-seeking
- ✅ Infrastructure for community self-organization
- ✅ Tools for building post-capitalist relationships
- ✅ Technology for mutual aid and gift economy
- ✅ Platform for experimentation and learning
- ✅ Invitation to imagine and build different futures
- ✅ Open source commons for communities to own and modify
(Implementation will follow these specifications)
- For Communities: Use these specs to understand what's possible and provide feedback
- For Developers: Implement features following OpenSpec methodology
- For Organizers: Share with your community and co-design adaptations
- For Dreamers: Read and imagine the solarpunk future we're building
This project is in the specification phase. Contributions welcome:
- Review and provide feedback on specifications
- Suggest additional features aligned with solarpunk values
- Share stories of existing mutual aid and resource sharing practices
- Help translate specs into code
- Build compatible tools and extensions
- Form communities ready to test early implementations
Specifications released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Implementation will be free and open source software (license TBD, likely AGPL or similar copyleft license to ensure community ownership).
(To be established)
Inspired by:
- Buy Nothing groups and gift economy movements
- Time banks and complementary currency projects
- Intentional communities and communes
- Solarpunk fiction and worldbuilding
- Appropriate technology and liberation technology movements
- Mutual aid networks and solidarity economies
- The dreamers, builders, and organizers creating the world we need
"We are building the new world in the shell of the old."
Let's build infrastructure for liberation, tools for abundance, and communities of care.
🌻 The future is solarpunk ✨