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CommunityFix is an open-source platform intended to help communities avoid repeatedly solving the same problems from zero.

It connects:

• Clearly scoped issues
• Competing solutions
• Real-world case studies
• Costs, outcomes, constraints, and failures
• Locations, sources, and funding information

The project already contains environmental, civic, health, infrastructure, and social-impact topics. I’m looking for open-source contributors who want to help improve a public-interest platform rather than build another commercial product.

Useful contribution areas include accessibility, search, data modeling, moderation workflows, contributor experience, and making evidence easier to compare.

Repository:

https://github.com/mathix420/communityfix

Live platform:

https://communityfix.org

If the mission resonates with you, take a look at the repository and tell me what would make contributing easier. A concrete issue, documentation improvement, or pull request would be greatly appreciated.

Environmental projects often repeat work that has already been done elsewhere.

A city preparing for extreme heat, a group restoring a habitat, or an NGO protecting an endangered species should be able to learn from comparable efforts in other places. But in practice, the useful evidence is scattered across research papers, reports, news articles, and organizational websites. Successful projects get simplified into headlines, and failures or real implementation challenges are often lost entirely.

I built CommunityFix to try to fix this by organizing environmental problems, potential solutions, and real-world case studies into a structured, comparable format.

It already includes topics like biodiversity, wildfires, water shortages, pollution, waste, urban heat, and species conservation. But the project only works if people with real knowledge help improve and correct it.

Right now, I’m looking for researchers, practitioners, NGO members, students, and people with local, on-the-ground experience who can review at least one topic they know well.

You can find entries that are missing key information like sources, costs, locations, or baseline data here:

https://communityfix.org/contribute

If you take a look, I’d really appreciate direct feedback. Pointing out what is wrong, incomplete, or misleading is far more valuable than general encouragement.

I kept running into a different kind of frustration: people saying “this is too big,” “nothing works,” “we’re doomed,” or “there’s no point trying.”

But when you look closely, that’s rarely true.

Most of the time, solutions already exist somewhere/tested in a different city, a different country, or a different context. The real issue is not lack of solutions, but lack of connection between people, evidence, and experience.

I believe something important: anyone’s skills can contribute to solving even the world’s biggest problems, if we can see what has already been tried and learn from it properly.

That’s why I built CommunityFix, an open-source knowledge graph designed to make problem-solving cumulative instead of repetitive:

• Issues describe real-world problems without assuming they are unsolvable
• Solutions capture approaches that have been attempted
• Case studies show where and how they were applied
• Results include costs, outcomes, constraints, and failures when available

The goal is not to claim everything is easy. It’s to make it visible that progress is possible and already happening in many places.

The project is open source (MIT license), and right now the most important part is not building more features, but improving the quality of what exists.

I’m looking for people who can help stress-test it:

Researchers, practitioners, designers, civic technologists, and anyone with lived or local experience.

The simplest way to contribute is to pick one entry you understand and challenge it:

https://communityfix.org/contribute

What is missing for you to believe a system like this could genuinely help people move from “nothing can be done” to “here are the things we can try next”?

Launching fully setup worktrees, fully customizable, config 100% compatible with alacritty, git diffs, ...

source code -> github.com/mathix420/alacritree

https://github.com/mathix420/alacritree