The core team

The core development team (aka "Bob and Lynn", or "Lynn and Bob" if you prefer) lives among the woods and small farms of rural southwest Wisconsin, Driftless Bioregion, USA. We collaborate with others located around the world.

We are trying to use the skills we have to respond to the times we find ourselves in, with crises in the economy, climate change, and peak resources.

We have quite a few decades of software development experience, in all kinds of industries, but especially in manufacturing supply chains. Supply chains, in fact, are economic networks. They are just not yet next-economy networks.

Why

The capitalist system needs to be replaced by something better, or it will be replaced by something worse, which is already happening, as the system begins to fail. Fortunately, the system develops the forces that will replace it, for better and for worse.

Among those forces are the Internet, the World Wide Web, and open-source software developers.

Unfortunately, the Web has been taken over by Facebook, Google, and the various government intelligence agencies for a new form of capitalism, Surveillance Capitalism. Fortunately, the open-source software developers of the world are developing a replacement that will be more difficult to make money from, and so less attractive to capital, and also more difficult to surveil.

We are not the only people who are working on this large not-yet-fully-formed project. We are only working on a few pieces of the puzzle. The people who are organizing real-life projects to provision people's daily needs are doing much more important work. Likewise the people who are doing political and union organizing and educating everybody about how to transform the system. But they will need the software to help them coordinate their activities.

People will also need to cooperate with all the critters in their natural environment. Not like what is happening now. Needs to be a whole cooperative ecosystem. Obey the biological limits of the planet. Greed has to go!