A few weeks ago I read a UK report on ecosystem collapse.

@diemkay are you familiar with https://wildlabs.net? It’s a great place to find conservationists who have a tech barrier!

@joenash I am not and this is amazing, thank you for sharing!!

A few weeks ago I read a UK report on ecosystem collapse.

In short, the UK government —thanks to a committee of its smartest security and intelligence people—reckons there’s a “realistic possibility” some ecosystems collapse by 2030.

That’s in four years, not “someday.” We’ve already crossed 6 of 9 planetary boundaries, or seven, depending on whom you ask, which is roughly like a doctor saying “well, most of your organs have failed but let’s stay positive, diet and exercise might help.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi-national-security

I figured someone, somewhere, is trying to grow food that doesn’t murder the soil. Someone has terabytes of wildlife camera monitoring and drowning in footage. Someone has a brilliant idea and absolutely no software skills or budget.

Maybe we can help.

We’re just people who can code, but maybe “just people who can code” might be exactly what someone needs right now.

We’re already collaborating with some rewilding projects, and we’d like to do more of it and meet more people trying to do things that matter.

The few people we talked to, who are fighting the important fights, are using broken tools, or no tools at all.

Maybe we can be of use to people protecting and restoring ecosystems, innovating sustainable food systems, or those tracking what’s actually happening to the living world around us.

We don’t have all the answers. I don’t even have most of the questions most days, and I’m trying my best to learn. But we’re good at software, we can build things that work, and we’d rather build things that matter.

To end this thread, I’m casting a wide net but if you’re trying to save one specific part of the world and software is the thing standing between you and doing it better—please talk to us! We want to meet you.

#OpenScience #Conservation #RestorativeAgriculture #RegenerativeAgriculture #EcologyInAction #CitizenScienc #Biodiversity
#ForestRestoration #Agroecology #SoilScience

@diemkay I tried to start a company to do that in 2016 with a business partner. We discovered very quickly that this is a subject where funding is very sparse. There are a lot of local community groups in London that operate with volunteers and budgets of £1k a year, and use whatever free software is closest to their needs.

There is definitely a need for software that enables people to quickly capture info on site on a mobile and helps them clean it up and manage at home later.

@diemkay I tried to start a company to do that in 2016 with a business partner. We discovered very quickly that this is a subject where funding is very sparse. There are a lot of local community groups in London that operate with volunteers and budgets of £1k a year, and use whatever free software is closest to their needs.

There is definitely a need for software that enables people to quickly capture info on site on a mobile and helps them clean it up and manage at home later.

@brunogirin thank you kindly, valuable insights! Right now I’m trying to understand the lay of the land a bit better, but we’re aware of the general funding challenges. I’m intrigued by the field capture idea though.

I figured someone, somewhere, is trying to grow food that doesn’t murder the soil. Someone has terabytes of wildlife camera monitoring and drowning in footage. Someone has a brilliant idea and absolutely no software skills or budget.

Maybe we can help.

We’re just people who can code, but maybe “just people who can code” might be exactly what someone needs right now.

We’re already collaborating with some rewilding projects, and we’d like to do more of it and meet more people trying to do things that matter.

The few people we talked to, who are fighting the important fights, are using broken tools, or no tools at all.

Maybe we can be of use to people protecting and restoring ecosystems, innovating sustainable food systems, or those tracking what’s actually happening to the living world around us.

We don’t have all the answers. I don’t even have most of the questions most days, and I’m trying my best to learn. But we’re good at software, we can build things that work, and we’d rather build things that matter.

To end this thread, I’m casting a wide net but if you’re trying to save one specific part of the world and software is the thing standing between you and doing it better—please talk to us! We want to meet you.

#OpenScience #Conservation #RestorativeAgriculture #RegenerativeAgriculture #EcologyInAction #CitizenScienc #Biodiversity
#ForestRestoration #Agroecology #SoilScience

I figured someone, somewhere, is trying to grow food that doesn’t murder the soil. Someone has terabytes of wildlife camera monitoring and drowning in footage. Someone has a brilliant idea and absolutely no software skills or budget.

Maybe we can help.

We’re just people who can code, but maybe “just people who can code” might be exactly what someone needs right now.

We’re already collaborating with some rewilding projects, and we’d like to do more of it and meet more people trying to do things that matter.

The few people we talked to, who are fighting the important fights, are using broken tools, or no tools at all.

Maybe we can be of use to people protecting and restoring ecosystems, innovating sustainable food systems, or those tracking what’s actually happening to the living world around us.

We don’t have all the answers. I don’t even have most of the questions most days, and I’m trying my best to learn. But we’re good at software, we can build things that work, and we’d rather build things that matter.

To end this thread, I’m casting a wide net but if you’re trying to save one specific part of the world and software is the thing standing between you and doing it better—please talk to us! We want to meet you.

#OpenScience #Conservation #RestorativeAgriculture #RegenerativeAgriculture #EcologyInAction #CitizenScienc #Biodiversity
#ForestRestoration #Agroecology #SoilScience

@diemkay

No budget .. well, "eramos tan pobres".

We do have a friendica fediverse forum server online, already with some related group profiles:
@permaculture
@permacultura
@permakultur

There are actually lot's of other groups as you can see in the directory:
https://tupambae.org/directory

Than there is the @studi0 community, a specific FOSS software channel as a proposal for to work on cooperative projects and find like minded people.

And of course our call for action to support our @bitpickup dude who is about to give up, breaking down under the heavy load of being alone out there in the wild in the middle of nowhere.

The initial call for a rescue tale (actually published to the studi0 channel) #aRockyRescueRequest #rockyRescue:
https://tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-1367-f481-0dce-9d0113372701

A chapter two publication #CAREpackage:
https://tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-2068-acf3-2c37-230084819573

And here you find a kinda weekly diary publications we came up with till now #doDo:
https://tupambae.com/display/ccf09959-9169-6515-b7e8-d2b952316896

Everything a constant work in progress of course.
:+1

@diemkay example from the community orchard group I used to volunteer with:
1. When you plant trees, you want to record them in a database with geolocation so they can go on a map.
2. At a later point, when you do maintenance, you may want to take photos or notes and them be associated with the tree you're looking at.
3. You'll need to collect all that data in a report so that you can report your volunteer hours spent.

1 + 2 are best done on site. 3 is best done back home.

@brunogirin I understand now! To be honest I’d want to do that in my own garden but I heard something similar from someone who volunteers on a farm, and wanted all that written down not just for the volunteer hours report but also to pass down to the next person who might work on it (and be on the receiving end of nicely formatted instructions too). There’s definitely something in there, thank you for detailing that. I’ll mull on it.