RCOS Progress Update: Building Open-Source Governance Tools
Over the past several months, Fruit Haven has been working on implementing the Regenerative Community Operating System (RCOS) as part of our ongoing effort to improve transparency, participation, documentation, and governance within our community.
This work is still evolving, but we’re excited to share some of the progress that has already been made.
Launch of the RCOS Portal
One of the biggest milestones has been the creation of a dedicated RCOS website:
The portal serves as a central hub for governance resources, proposals, meeting records, roles, agreements, and documentation related to RCOS implementation at Fruit Haven.
Our goal is to make community information easier to access, easier to contribute to, and more transparent for both residents and remote stakeholders.
Open Source Development
In alignment with Fruit Haven’s values of transparency, decentralization, and collaboration, the RCOS platform is being developed as an open-source project.
The website is hosted on GitHub and deployed through Vercel, allowing anyone to review the code, suggest improvements, report issues, or contribute directly to development.
You can find the GitHub repository and project resources through the RCOS website:
By making this work open source, we hope that other intentional communities can learn from, adapt, and improve upon the tools being developed. Our vision is not only to improve governance at Fruit Haven, but also to contribute to a broader ecosystem of regenerative communities exploring more transparent and participatory ways of organizing.
Recent Progress
Recent efforts have focused on:
- Establishing the RCOS web platform and documentation structure.
- Exploring governance workflows and community decision-making processes.
- Organizing and documenting proposals, agreements, and meeting records.
- Creating tools that make community information easier to access and maintain.
- Building a foundation that can continue evolving through community participation and feedback.
While there is still much work ahead, these initial steps are helping us move toward a more resilient and transparent governance system.
Looking for Contributors
We know there are many talented people in our extended network who have experience with:
- Software development
- Web design and UX
- Documentation
- Governance systems
- Community facilitation
- RCOS implementation
- Open-source collaboration
Whether you can contribute code, documentation, testing, feedback, design work, governance expertise, or simply help review and improve the system, we’d love your help.
Even a few hours of participation can make a meaningful difference.
Join Our Weekly Calls
We discuss RCOS implementation and governance development during our weekly Fruit Haven community calls.
When: Every Thursday at 12:00 PM Ecuador Time (ECT)
Where: Fruit Haven Telegram Group
https://t.me/fruithavenecovillage
These calls are open to residents, owners, volunteers, supporters, and anyone interested in helping build better systems for intentional communities.
If you’d like to contribute, learn more about RCOS, or simply follow the project’s progress, we invite you to join us. Your ideas, questions, and feedback are welcome.
Thank You
Many thanks to Stefan and the Ecohubs team for introducing and developing RCOS, as well as to everyone in the Fruit Haven community who has contributed ideas, feedback, testing, development effort, and countless hours of discussion along the way.
Together, we’re building not only a community, but also open-source tools and governance processes that may benefit regenerative communities around the world.
We look forward to continuing this journey and sharing future updates as the project develops.