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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That‘s hard, I currently work in SAP Basis (tech side) and I‘m not sure. In a solarpunk world, I feel like my job wouldn‘t exist, as it‘s really focused on the needs of "big business" and needs a ton of energy to run this whole system.

I‘ve been thinking though, things like supply chain, material management, etc seem like they might be useful to have open source for alternative organisations too and I found this: https://erpnext.com/comparisons/sap-alternative though idk how good any of this is truly and I‘m not sure how it would serve solarpunk, I‘m still too new to all this and only work with a small part of it, though it does seem to be the brain of business.

Before that I worked as a System Engineer, for a fossil fuel company… there I learned that the interests of such a company and anyone who wants nature to survive are incompatible, as they were greenwashing things in marketing while lobbying against any change and toasting to their profits behind closed doors. It made me feel like a monster.

Sorry if none of this is useful, I‘m mostly here to learn more about solarpunk from you guys cause I‘m so negative from my experiences and I want to change that towards a more hopeful perspective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can sympathize with you.

My industry is also anti-solarpunk (television and live events) but the skills I've learned along the way would translate well. I use the term "guerrilla TV" a lot because we really do swarm into any location and make it functional for our needs. It would just be neat if live entertainment could be beneficial and green instead of capitalism-driven and wasteful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are some interesting projects around open-source ERPs like Odoo or Erpnext in regards to shared supply chains and social security payments etc... Small steps only, but some lessons can be probably learned from how big companies organise their logistics.