Research, Development and Implementation Areas
This is a living document indicating areas where members can focus attention or specialise in. Can also attach names in future to show who's doing what. It can eventually turn into a more detailed to do list with progress tracking. Perhaps transfer it to rngit workpages for this purpose.
Agriculture
Community Supported Agriculture
Reach out to Open Food Network
Agro-forestry
Significantly better water and energy efficiency than industrial agriculture. Trade off is worse labour efficiency. Monoculture farms are easily automated. Not so for the necessarily diverse bioms of agroforestry. But labour efficiency under capitalism is just used to lower wages and transfer wealth to the ultra rich anyway.
Communications
RNS public Transport Nodes
Get more public transport nodes up with a shared network identity for perth commons.
RNS pages/repos
Can either mirror repos or have more personalised pages? Both?
RNS lora interfaces
Build more lora nodes. Rnode interfaces for homes. complete RNS transport nodes for more remote deployments. Low power.
Meshtastic go bags
Sounds cool? Reticulum is far superior to meshtastic for well established infrastructure. Meshtastic still has an edge over reticulum for completely adhoc comms networks set up on the fly. A meshtastic go bag, that you can grab, and gives you a complete comms system for multiple users that can be taken anywhere.
Community Controlled Currency (CCC)
Mutual Credit Systems
Not sure how effective this could be. Blockchain approaches make it a bit redundant. But still worth keeping the fundamentals in mind
Blockchain Currencies
G1 Duniter
How to get this into Australia? Potential problem with the trust network design, minimum 5 hops from 85% clique, limiting us cases outside of orbiting europe. Not sure how the graph theory works out.
Sarafu Network
seems more able to be used it split up currency systems, less like a singular global currency like G1.
Radical Democracy
Co-ops
find and reach out to existing co-ops. Build that circular economy.
Perth Commons Constitution
needs work. Integrate Schismogenesis into constitution? Need meeting notes template.
20 Thesis for liberation
use as a guideline for developing our constitution. Become a signatory
Wealth distribution
in liu of a well established CCC, the constitution could develop out a simple wealth distribution system. Both to help out members through tough times ahead, and also to decentralise resources and encourage autonomy and independent learning and pursuits.
Weather Prediction
very important for an increasingly erratic climate. BOM is great. But need to build redundancies and just in cases.
Direct Satellite link to Himawari
Yeah, you can do this. It's not encoded. You just point a dish at the geostationary satellite and download. Bit more to it than that... I saw a video on it. https://youtu.be/W_F4rEaRduk?si=FwyRnxxvOwKF4SaS&t=934
Reticulum Weather Nodes
combine them with weather satellite.
Physical Climate Change Readiness
Where the constitution and CCC provide political readiness, this is about physical readiness. The heatwave in europe and india killing thousands must be a wakeup call. This mostly focuses on simple things compatible with our grassroots nature. Solarpunk it up.
Energy Recovery Ventilators
Plug in Solar
cheap bunnings solar panels.
Shading and passive heat management
Energy test kits from libraries
Outreach
Simply walking around your local neighbourhood. Getting to know the people, the unique qualities. To posters and door knocking. Again, focused on the local streets of members. Outreach at libraries?