Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing: it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Simone Weil

Why this fork was created?

Because the upstream repo seems to have encoded structural violence mechanisms that we aim to fix here.

_@mariha turned out to be not compatible with Karrot (upstream repo) team's culture. Despite the Code of Conduct declares differently, it looks like there exist a power (abusive!) structure and a culture of emotion avoidance/dismissal which is probably a byproduct of similar structures. They've been together observed to result in otherwise unseen emotional outbursts and withdrawals. It seems to be a structural violence mechanism that has been also encoded in Karrot software - under systemic consensus based Conflicts Resolution feature. It is worth trying to address the issue - as a remedy for the harms experienced personally and for the sake of the group(s) using (forked) Karrot software._

How is it different from the upstream repo?

We believe culture follows structure. We aspire to create a scaffold for inclusive communities, which are a safe space for everyone, not only the most powerful ones. Communities, where people can belong: where membership is based on clear and objective criteria and not subjective to affinity biases.

We plan to do it by restoring 'conflicts' their proper function in the communities, so that their resolution is a positive experience of bringing back balance and creating new better order (fairer, more equitable, allowing for better participation) in the world of the community where it occurred - rather then being a tool of oppression used by the most powerful ones to strengthen their position even more. We believe good conflicts' resolutions (1) seek to acknowledge and compensate any harms that have happened for all the parties involved in them and (2) may result in redesigning the rules to prevent similar situations from happening again. This way, conflicts are something constructive and to be looked forward to rather then to be avoided.

Note: we are in the process of moving away from the upstream repo, you will still find references to it everywhere!

karrot

Start a group, become a community

Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis.

It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

This is the frontend repository, i.e. the browser-side software that powers karrot.community. Have a look at our server-side code at karrot-backend, too!

Features

manage information about places :apple:
schedule both one-time and recurring activities :calendar:
gather feedback about activities :mag:
talk with users before they become group members :heavy_plus_sign:
let newcomers show their trust and get involved :bulb:
communicate with your team via group, place, activity, and private chats :speech_balloon:
handle team member conflicts via score voting :star:
receive real-time notifications via our Android app, e-mail, and web broswer push notifications :loudspeaker:
use karrot in your preferred language :globe_with_meridians:
upload a group logo and customize your public information :camera:

Foodsaving worldwide

The foodsaving worldwide team provides additional resources to build up foodsaving, e.g. an infopage on foodsaving.world, where all the intel is gathered.

Development goals

Our current development goals are prioritized and written down in our elaborate roadmap.

Releases

For a quick overview of recent changes and our version history have a look at our change log file.

Translation

We are using Transifex to provide karrot in many languages. To help us with translation, please create an account and apply for the karrot group.

After selecting your target language and choosing the resource file, go ahead to start translating!

Setup

Node.js and yarn

To clone and install:

git clone https://github.com/karrot-dev/karrot-frontend.git
cd karrot-frontend
yarn

To run the local dev server:

yarn dev

To lint and run the tests:

yarn lint
yarn test

If you want to use an eslint plugin for your editor, please keep in mind that you either have to install all eslint plugins listed in package.json globally or you run yarn install. Otherwise your eslint plugin may not work.

Start contributing?

We have a forum for Karrot developers and users at https://community.karrot.world.

If you are interested in contributing, check out our onboarding guide.

The most important dev information is written down in our contribution guidelines.

The backend is developed to support this frontend. If you find a bug or miss something in the API, please file an issue in the backend repository.

Contributors

Significant contributors to karrot:

_{Tilmann Becker} 💻 🤔 🚇 👀 ⚠️ 💬	_{Nick Sellen} 💻 📖 🚇 👀 ⚠️	_{Janina Abels} 🤔 🐛 💬 💻 🌍	_D0nPiano 🎨 💻 🤔	_{Lukas Gebhard} 💻 🤔 👀 📖	_mrkvon 💻 🤔
_taistadam 📝 💻 🎨 🤔 🌍	_{Ines Dorian Gütt} 💻 📖	_{Marie Dedikova} 💻 📖	_{Andreas Langecker} 💻 🎨 🤔	_djembejohn 💻 🤔	_{Matthias Larisch} 💻
_pogopaule 💻 🤔	_{Thiago Mendes} 💻 🌍	_Xaph 💻	_lwm 💻	_{Bruno MC} 🐛 🔍 🤔