Source it Fresh is a decentralised, digital suite of tools for anyone in the production, supply and consumption of fresh consumable products. We're open sourcing it for the global community to enhance and improve upon. Cutting edge tech, localisation, globalisation and low cost implementation is key to ensuring resilience and ease of adoption.

SiF has no aspirations to be a corporation with profit incentives, shareholders, and board members. The people who participate are ultimately in control. It is a non-hierarchical system. Whilst individuals (owner - administrator – manager etc.) will enjoy rights, on each instance of the application, of varying levels of access and authority, the overriding element of the system is a flat, community-centric structure with a leaning towards equitable energy exchange.

If we’re to find a path towards freedom and health, we'll need an alternative to our current system. One that understands and nurtures ancient wisdom for living in harmony with the naturally abundant value our planet offers. One that invites many people to participate and one that doesn’t preclude anyone by virtue of their location, status, ethnicity, or age. SiF is not political, religious, racial nor genderist. There is no built-in mechanism to observe, manipulate or apply thought control. It’s a "soil-up" movement where people have the choice to decide how and why they engage, promote transparency, trust and accountability.

We are launching a global no-cost/low-cost, decentralised “cell-based”, open-source platform for food and consumer goods. Encouraging localised production and consumption, reducing wasteful practices. Sharing unbiased, valuable data between participating producers for better production outcomes and transparency for consumers. Collating seasonal and geolocation-oriented data to assist producers and improve education for new participants. Providing an uncomplicated mechanism for all parties in the cycle to source/broadcast products, consume, and trade on a transaction layer with an emphasis on value stability.

Technology on its own is not the answer but it gives us the tools to communicate, share and learn.

• 🟢 Early-2020: 💡 Establish the overall “Source-it-Fresh” idea & ideals as an Open-Source-Movement.
• 🟢 Mid-2020: ©️ Add 'GNU AGPL v3.0' licensing to all metadata for future release into the wild.
• 🟢 Late-2020: ®️ Register the “Source-it-Fresh” .com .org domains (.net; .info; ...others Pending)

• 🟢 Early-2021: 🛠️ Setup & Configured MS Azure-Portal alongside Office365 Subscriptions; Resources; Dashboards; etc.
• 🟢 Mid-2021: ⚙️ Setup & Configured MS DevOps settings, with Backload; Repo; Internal-Wiki; Teams; Sprints; etc.
• 🟢 Late-2021: 🎨 Populate Wiki & "learning materials". Finalize concepts add logos, "art" and some landing page fluff.

• 🟢 All-Of-2022: 📐 Research & Development of multiple Prototypes from WinForm to ‘NopCommerce’ and ‘OpenCart’ with Firebase-Auth and a multitude of others.

• 🟢 All-Of-2023: 💻 Research & Development of ASPNET Proof-Of-Concept applications and tests. (MVC; RazorPages; Blazor; PWA; & MAUI-Hybrid;)

• 🟢 Early-2024: 🌱 Sweat a Real-world Pilot-Garden into existence as a testbed. (With the help of the local community)
• 🟢 Mid-2024: 📰 Write Paper about what we are doing and why, with the hopes of attracting contributions. (pre-review InProgress)
• 🔵 Late-2024: Setup Public Git Repo & Move noncritical code objects over.

• 🔴 Early_2025:
  • 💲 Looking for fiscal host infrastructure to back and integrate/implement a donations model.
  • 📖 The transaction layer is for all users to conclude payments to providers of goods and or services. This portion of our application has not been concluded and contributors are invited to participate. [email protected]
  • 🗺️ Condensed Public Roadmap...

To date, SiF has been internally funded. Our capacity to launch and grow this project without external funding and contributors will be limited. While there are funding models that could be deployed, and many have been discussed at length, they have their own pitfalls, and we see limitations to growth in the poorest regions and territories where SiF could be most influential. Future development of the platform from participants anywhere on the planet, also requires that we attract funding that is absolutely cross-border in nature.

📜 SiF is licensed under Copyleft GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.
📧 Email: Comments, edit suggestions, and input can be communicated to our team through [email protected].
🤝 Note: See https://sourceitfresh.org/en/contributors to join the team.