@booyaa @kresse it's heartening to hear of some best practices being established.
In general terms I'm curious if there's a path of least resistance to design for a #solarpunk community. To avoid it just being cottage core with solar panels I'm interested in an imaginary digital village where every household has the same kinds of thing, and find metaphors that might be an off-the-shelf hardware product. Individuals with phones are a given but that's a saturated market so not as interesting to me, although giving off-grid devices to children is an interesting topic (see also Stranger Things).
One for "letterbox" which should be more available that is also a bit of neighbourhood infrastructure and includes a repeater and some value-add for the owner like a LoRa mailbox sensor.
Another device for a "porch light" which is a client that's not always available but more likely to expect a reply from a street address when it's availability is broadcast. Maybe known to likely be a private LoRaWAN gateway.
Both anonymous (albeit obviously at an address) and not individualized.
And then maybe it would be cool to have a "hearth" device where you might have an interface that's good at integrating complementary technologies like magic wormhole and peertube to make the most of geographic advantages. Or a "notice board" where at-a-glance activity summaries of public channels and emergency services advisories are made. Either could be an mqtt broker too.
And with a general expectation that these kinds of devices are available I would hope that clarifies modes of communication in the event of a disaster scenario that can be demonstrably important to community resilience.
Lots of security and real world implications I'm sure, but I'm curious if there's anything obvious that would make #meshtastic or #meshcore unsuitable?