‘By their fruits ye shall know them’
http://slowcoast.ca/2009/06/22/abundance-in-the-community/

Process: “the owner of fruit (or nut) tree who wants the fruit harvested contacts the coordinator of the Fruit Tree Project, Anne Michaels. Anne arranges for a team of volunteer pickers to go to the property and pick the fruit. The standard arrangement for distributing the fruit is that one-third goes to the pickers, one-third to the owner of the tree, and one-third to a local food pantry or other charitable organization to be distributed to those in need.”

OpenKollab performs the tasks of Anne Michaels. Each number below follows a link description OpenKollab must alert for participant conformation to coordinate and schedule the desired operations.

OpenKollab…
…1) arranges for a team of volunteer pickers to go to…
…2) the property and pick the fruit…
…then locates where fruit must go:
3) one-third goes to the pickers,
4) one-third to the owner of the tree, and
5) one-third to a local food pantry or
6) other charitable organization to
7) distribute to those in need

This means an OpenKollab user account for the…
1. pickers
2. owner
3. local pantry user
4. other charitable organization user
5. those is need
The number of fruit is counted in aggregate and divided by volunteers. The count is entered into OpenKollab and alerts for retrieval the…
1. pickers
2. owner
3. local pantry (Why not leave it to OpenKollab to shorten the chain and find the persons in need instead?)
4. other charitable organization (OpenKollab could do that too, without organizational bureaucracy, and more effectively by going to step 5!)
5. those in need (like hungry individuals using OpenKollab!)

The Contract
Owners and volunteers can negotiate a contract (like what food proportions go to whom) and revise the contract as needed if requirements or conditions change. Contracts provide a way to inform volunteers of work requirements. Each contract will remain public record for reuse when these same task requirements surface or to serve as a template for coordinating similar activities.

Feedback Rating
To encourage dedicated behavior in this spontaneous environment we use a feedback system similar to Ebay to assure owners can depend on volunteers and to encourage volunteers to meet the contract and receive recognition in the community served. This feedback system may encourage a sharing competition!

OpenKollab can do more than what Anne could do alone by alerting related networks like nurseries, tools for pruning to meet volunteer demand the owner may lack, and other required materials to further reduce expenses and extend leisure for everyone involved, while creating a fertile foundation for gift economic activity to come as exchange trade becomes less necessary using tools like OpenKollab, replacing capital production with peer production as it becomes appropriate.

A single “wave” can be used to alert all social networking tools of the user. OpenKollab users are displayed on a map to encourage neighborhood participation by exposing people to the various activities and network hubs that represent community life.

I hope you use this exercise as a model to post similar breakdowns by looking at existing workflows in projects you like. The more we take existing processes and funnel them into the OpenKollab concept, the better we know the functions our software must have to assist coordinating efforts.

Thank you Michel Bauwens for being the living OpenKollab that brought this to our attention.