Editing Purpose

The purpose of this wiki is to collect practical plans, tools, and technology that can be use to make a [[Solarpunk]] future a reality. 

The goal is a public domain instruction manual designed to be accessible and relevant to as diverse an audience as possible. It is important to meet readers at their level of understanding, technical abilities, and resources.

== Contextualize ==
It is important to help orient new readers to the content of this wiki with [[context]] and [[narrative]]. Tell a practical story of how the reader can go from what they know now (current conditions), to a more sustainable, beautiful, and technologically advanced future.
== Describe ==
Practical methods and projects for different numbers of people. Each level comes with more complexity and responsibility. 
=== Individuals ===
For one person or couple with a focus on finding community.
* Window box gardening
* Small scale Aquaponics
* Suburban backyard commons
* Finding and joining a Community Garden
** Starting a community garden if none exist in your area
* Finding and joining local activist groups
* Volunteering for community service
** Soup Kitchens
** Homeless Shelters
===  Small Group ===
A group of 10 or more people looking for larger projects to take on together
* Forming an organization
* Cooperatives
** Housing 
** Worker
** Purchasing
* Solar installations
* Urban farming
* Disaster preparedness and mutual aid
=== Large Group ===
A large group of people of 100+ approaching the "Enterprise" scale
* Resource self sufficiency
* Manufacturing
* Engineering for longevity
* Land trusts
* Vertical Integration
* Enterprise Resource Planning [[ERP]] software
* Inventory management
* Customer Relations Management [[CRM]]
* Project planning
* Issue tracking
=== Neighborhood === 

=== Town === 
A community large enough to call itself a town.
* Governance
* Compliance with local laws and regulations
* Waste collection & disposal
=== City ===
A town grows into a city and has more substantial requirements 
* [[GIS]] Mapping to keep track of all of your [[Infrastructure]]
* Drinking [[water purification]]
* Waste [[water treatment]]
* Sewers
* Treatment plants
* Transport [[Infrastructure]]
* Paths
* Rails
* Roads 
* Social Safety nets
** As people become strangers they larger [[organization]] needs a safety net

== Direct == 
Provide the reader with high quality, [[actionable]] [[documentation]]. Collect or find contributors with the experience to make detailed project plans. 
* Create "lego like" instructions that are heavy on images rather than text, to ease the burden of translation. 
* Create or find engineering (assembly) drawings when making physical things
** Try to reduce parts and materials to those which would be accessible to our target [[audience]] 
** Architectural blue prints
** Find examples like the Opensource Ecology "Seed Home"
*** Prusa assembly instructions 
== Instruct ==
Where ever possible capture links to high quality (verified) instructional content
Examples for [[FreeCAD]] 
* MangoJelly Solutions on Youtube
* "4 Axis Printing" on Youtube
== Organization as [[System]] == 
Every organism and organization is a system. Systems theory provides a structural framework that helps us think about how our organization interacts with the environment that it exists within. What does the organization take in? What does it output? What are the boundaries that define its character?

=== Environment ===
Every organization operates within an [[environment]]. This wiki is public and on the internet. The internet is a very diverse and complex environment. There are many voices, and many opinions in this environment.
=== Boundary ===
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=== Input ===
=== Transformation ===
=== Output ===
=== Feedback ===
* Deviation-Correcting 
* Deviation-Amplifying
=== Information Coding ===