@rycuda - Yeah indeed. SP at its heart is about hope, thinking about a better future and working towards that better future.

That's it. Simple.

Extrapolated out, you get to "use technology towards a specific goal and within sustainable and ethical constraints to address the needs of humanity" and "social justice for all".

Attempting to address both of those and how is where we're at right now.

So many have looked towards already established means, methods, and systems to see what we can use as is or slightly tweaked and many look towards new systems (or upgrated and updated systems).

One thing that I love, is it specifically DOES NOT attempt to create a "one size fits all" sort of monoculture. In fact, the opposite - decentralized and tailored to different populations, cultures, and environments is really important and core.

Heck even in farming monoculture is decried whereas guerilla gardening, decentralized home gardening, and food forests / permaculture reign as the desired methodology instead of massive corporate single crops, etc.

A wide diversity in approach and practice is the way.

So with that you'll have many different, sometimes competing, approaches and it still fits under the umbrella of #solarpunk.

0: "Do you have a grant writing person or a formal donation campaign?"

1: What would we use money for?

People pick up food and drop it off. They volunteer their time and gas/electricity/feet-movement and get some food out of it.

Do you... do you wanna pitch over a fiver for gas? That'd help! Or I just bought some bags to store some bread in from the bakery... I guess I could use 2 dollars to that end...

Wait... what are YOU using money for?

0: "Well.. we have to pay the guy who writes grants and organizes donation campaigns."

1: Huh...

Antes que nada desmentir que tenga ningun tipo de problema con los defines.

Como traductor veo que va regulinchi, ahora bien, te deja los toots mucho mas divertidos XD

Pongo la traducción completa:

Bueno, pues ya estamos instalados en nuestra nueva casa, #neopaquita
Ahora con la #presentacion demostraremos cómo van las traducciones

- Cuidador de un minihumano de 9 kg y de un perro de 55 kg.
- ¿Cómo podemos desarrollar y adaptar la tecnología en un mundo postcapitalista? #solarpunk #permacomputación #software libre a...
- Programador en la cooperativa Goiener, la soberanía energética es un mobida...
- Me gustan los #videojuegos pero no tengo tiempo
- Andar en lan #huerta también pero me pasa lo mismo
- En las fiestas del barrio montamos una radio
- Love #rss hate fascism

Ok! It's a solid app and it works.

It's open sourced with a fun anti-capitalist license: https://gitlab.com/food-rescue-alliance/tomato/-/blob/development/LICENSE

It allows admins / organizers to:
- create a Donor/Contributer profile
- create a Dropoff/Distributor profile
- create a food rescue pickup between a Contributor and a Distributor site at a specific time during the day for specific days.

It allows users / gleaners to:
- See all the available food rescue pickups
- Read notes on the pickup and dropoff locations
- See a map of both sites and the route between the two.

The app is a self-described MVP - Minimum Viable Product. It works but does not have a lot of features. It hasn't had an update in a couple of years, but it is actively used (there's not much to update unless someone discloses vulns or they add a new feature).

They're talking about raising money and hiring a software engineer, but this is definitely a good candidate for a hackathon or FOSS programming program.

Some things that I would like to see (if I or other could code it for them):
- Ability of users filter open food rescue pick-ups by distance from their home to the pickup location, or their home to the dropoff location
- Ability of users to filter for specific days of the week (right now they can see specific dates, but if they want to see all shifts for the next several Mondays - for example - they aren't able to filter it).

One problem that I haven't figured out, is if a user / volunteer / gleaner commits to a recurring shift, I can't see how they drop their commitment to that shift. I've emailed FRA to see if I'm missing something.

Long and short, it's lacking some features that I've seen in other food rescue coordination software, but these software apps don't have a lot of features or functionality to begin with. Also the other apps seem to be for profit (even if under the aegis of "non-profit") and often have a dedicated software engineer. This is a FOSS app made by a bunch of volunteers.

Long and short, it absolutely beats a manually maintained spreadsheet! And it's not far behind other apps that have a dedicated software team.

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@phillip @cR0w @TNLNYC - Hahaha, yeah, when I spun up this group I realized that ALL of my last collaborative interactions these past couple of decades have been with hackers.

Like... even my language is so steeped in 1337speak and jargon that normal folks didn't understand me.

I said something like "Oh, I'll spin up a server real quick" and they were like... Wat. What's a server? And what do you mean by "Spin up?"

And I was like... Spin up. You know... like... spin up spin up. Huh...

Hahahaha!!!!

So yeah, if I want to build community and mutual aid movements, I have to design the solution around the people that use it, not force the people to use a weird ass (to them) solution.