Village Resource Management Software

Hint: Moved to https://github.com/gbroques/ecovillage-resource-management-spec

Introduction

Software to manage the resources of a village in a cyclical closed-loop system.

Village resources are defined as:

• Water
• Food
• Energy

Village resources are provides by village components, primarily:

• Houses
• Shared Infrastructure

Each individual house in the village can be thought of as a sub-component to the overall system with resources managed by House Resource Management Software.

Shared infrastructure components would vary from village-to-village based on unique needs, desires, and interests, but may consist of:

• Electrical vehicles and / or charging station
• A "common house", community spaces, or community center
• Centralized village power and electrical grid (may feed into wider municipal grid)
• Plumbing and waste-water treatment center (performed ecologically using centralized bio-gas digestion)

Goals

• Assist in village planning
• Allow village simulation
• Assist in automation of resource management to free-up human time
• Assist in village improvements, resource attainment efficiency, policy, and decision-making.
• Applicable to existing eco-villages such as Dancing Rabbit Eco-Village

Principles

The following principles should be observed the system and guide overall design and decision making.

Each principle is not mutually exclusive, and may tie into other principles.

• Universal
  • Applicable to any geographic location or unique bio-regions
• Accessible
  • Available to any person regardless of disability: deaf, blind, vision or hearing impaired, amputee.
• Low Cost
  • Whenever possible, financial cost to individuals should be minimized.
• Global
  • Applicable to any person, culture, or language in the world.
• Open Source
  • The code should be freely available and observe the four freedoms of open-source software.