Really it’s an amazing project and the linked resources are great at explaining what Open Source Ecology is. Thank you for introducing it.
What, specifically, is this community for? What are the parameters of the conversations you want to encourage? I suppose I’m looking for some idea of community mission statement. Is that something we can have a conversation about?
News about right to repair or artificial scarcity.
Devekplopments in open hardware technology that aligns with OSE’s mission.
Those are great. Since this is on a solarpunk instance, I’d go so far as to say this could be a good community for ‘practical solarpunk’ discussions. Anything about how to actually build a solarpunk world, the nitty gritty stuff.
After all the OSE is the ultimate ’how-to’ project. It has themes of self-sufficiency and sustainability, as well as a dirty-fingernails approach. Renewable energy topics, especially DIY, small-scale and innovative grid concepts and tools would be things I’d definitely engage with.