[EN][Global Call] #SolarpunkInstallParty Jusore, July 13, 2025August 21, 2025 UNINSTALLING CAPITALISM You wanna uninstalling capitalism? LAWCRAFT is the video game/live role-playing hybrid idea that I want to create openly. This can be a ludic support in the process of global installation of a libre system that we version from Democratic Confederalism; because we require a system that allows us to implement, urgently and globally, the necessary measures to fix what is wrong. l 🧡 P2P GNU/LINUX DEMOCRACY!!! I’ve dosed the #SolarpunkInstallParty images in blocks so that they don’t look too saturated. You can watch it too in video (to install it in your brain) with a feeling of a musical party high 😉 If you know people interested in some way, write me back at mastodon. You can also download this article in PDF from here. Greets. PS: I’d have liked to use an image carousel to make it look better, but in this wordpress the admins have not given that option. Here are the links to the documents mentioned: Lawcraft Gamification EMC – Ethical Mercantile Contract LSC – Libre Self-government Constitution Lawcraft Set of Libre Technologies Credits to image creators: @runawaywithyou, @navarrodejavier, @seanbodley, @the_lemonaut, @jusore SECTION 0 SECTION 1 SECTION 2 SECTION 3 SECTION 4 SECTION 5 Uncategorized libreoprojectvideo game
This is a great idea, but a massive undertaking. The software alone is a huge effort, and that’s before you take into account the process of actually getting people to use it and build a community around it. I’d be happy to help, as solarpunk and mapping software are some of my favourite subjects, but my skills are limited to server-side web development. You’ll need some rather talented front-end developers with AR experience, web designers for the website and probably some copy editors to help with translations. Are you setting things up on a repo (hopefully not GitHub) somewhere? How do people get involved? Reply
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I’m afraid that Mastodon is not a good tool for communication like this due to the character limit, but in response to your post, I’d point out that there’s little benefit to switching up where your code lives unless doing so provides more freedom/control/reach. Codeberg can be self-hosted, so that should be good enough indefinitely. It’s also not worth worrying about where it’ll be hosted long term because things change over time. The beauty of git is that the code lives everywhere by design, so even if Codeberg were to enshitify or disappear overnight, you can just move the project to a self-hosted instance somewhere else. Use the tool that makes sense for the moment. Talking about moving a non-existent project to GNUNet somehow in the future isn’t something to worry about. With that said, it’s different with licensing. Unless you’re starting with a permissive license like MIT (ew), you can’t simply switch licences as you propose without getting permission from every past contributor to relicence their contribution under the new licence, so choosing the right licence early is worth it. The AGPL3 is great and prevents capitalists from privatising a project, which is why I favour it, but if you really like the PPL, that’s a call you have to make early. I should note though that the PPL has a special mention of software and how it may not be the best choice in that case: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License#Simple_Definition_and_the_PPL_as_a_Transvestment_Stategy Finally, rather than just one, you’re likely going to need a bunch of repos, one for each sub-project (of which there are *many*): * Android app * iThing app * A web app (?) * A back end service to handle requests from the apps * A website (may be bundled with the back end service) to market LawCraft and provide education about how to use it to get involved with your local community and allow people to report progress and other data you want visualised in the apps. * A tonne of design work, from a project colour scheme to 3d models used in the AR renderings. * A space for some Very Smart People who can figure out how to place said 3d models in the real world via the apps Honestly, the repos themselves are trivial. Whomever does the actual work will happily create one for the subproject in a few minutes. The immediate difficulty will be in finding a team of people with the skills required to build (phase 1 of) this thing. To get started, you could probably get away with not worrying about AR and start building up community and data. Think of it as sort of a “check in” app for community projects: you open your phone, and it tells you what’s going on around you. You tap to find out more and get involved. As you get more & smarter people on board, you can start to tackle the Hard Problems of placing 3d objects in real space *related to that space*. If you go the simple route, then you only really need a single back end (I’d recommend Django, but I have a bias) and a simple front end (React Native will do the job). That’s 2 tech nerds and one art nerd. So, 3 projects: front, back, and art. If you want AR out of the gate though, I’d recommend you shop the idea around universities to see if anyone had some good background there. It’s easy enough to place a Pokémon randomly in a 3d space, but to recognise that 3d space in real time as your (low power) device moves through that space and map a 3d model onto it so that the flower bed appears to belong on that road… Someone much smarter than me would have to figure that out. It may well be beyond the capabilities of current hardware, and generating that sort of thing remotely isn’t cheap. Which is another concern you’ll have to worry about in the short-term: cost. You can build an app for free and host it on a Raspberry Pi in your house for close to €0, but if you start incurring serious compute costs, you start having to consider expensive cloud solutions which is hard to justify for a community project. Restricting compute to the device or bypassing it altogether is the safest bet early-on. Anyway, Mastodon sucks for long form communication. Maybe set up a Lemmy community or Matrix group? If you’d like to email me, drop me a line. My email is attached to this comment. Reply