The Freespace Software Kit project

[Rob Sutherland]

I've been asked to work on a project and I was wondering if anyone can 
point me to anything
similar, like, I don't know, maybe there are some Cyber-Hutterites out 
there. Here's the project description
I put into sourceforge.
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The Freekit project will assemble a set of Free/Open Source tools for 
managing a community where
resources are held cooperatively and/or bartered within an internal 
economy. The tools may already
exist as FOSS packages or may need to be developed and will fall into 
these (and doubtless other) categories.

    - Internal systems for tracking resources, setting up and running 
projects,
      tracking costs, maintaining inventory records. forecasting needs and
      assigning materials and resources.

    - Interface systems to interact with the external economy, produce
      invoices, calculate and pay taxes etc.

    - Social software components such as blogs, wikis and internal instant
      messages/chat to allow people to register as members, educate 
themselves,
      work together in project teams and interact as a community.

Since many of the components already exist as LAMP packages, PHP/MySQL 
will be the initial
choice for development.  Existing packages selected as possible 
components will be evaluated, tested
and integrated while components that don't currently exist will be 
developed. Initially, the package
will be released as a LAMP package, but ultimately it will be 
distributed as a livecd containing
all the infrastrucure, utilities and documentation required.

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Rob

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