Free Eco Web Services

This was started as an environmentalist project in the beginning of 2012 CE, its short name is FEcoWebS (from the abbreviation of Free Eco Web Services). Primarily, the free service of ourproject.org gives place to it, but it can be installed to other places too. Through many changes, the features of the project formed gradually, together with its goals and strategy.

Currently, the main goal of the project is to provide a small-sized, portable, error-free, free and durable knowledge-base which can work as a catalyst to create environmentally conscious clubs in any city of the world. If this succeeds, then a culture may emerge from the knowledge-base, which can increase the number of the environmentally friendly people and make them wiser. The project intends to help the formation and upkeep of local environmentally conscious clubs by web services other than the knowledge base too.

The other goal of the FEcoWebS project is the solution of the environmental problems. This work is done in three steps: writing down the motivational theory, writing down the specific ideas, and after the selection of some specific ideas the elaboration of them as projects or web services. So, in an ideal case, the local environmentally conscious clubs would make the stakeholders of our project and its human resources, and the project would provide opportunities for them to protect the environment better or disengage in an environmentally friendly way.

Contents (click on the links below)

Book: Environmental theory and ideas
Service 1: Top 10 lists about free things
Service 2: Eco-friendly mailing lists for us
Project 1: Against the wastage of paper-based advertising
Project 2: Popularizing and financing FEcoWebS
Project 3: Developing a resource-sparing font

Other development possibilities have come into mind too, but in the lack of time and resources, we're going to stress the above yet. When there'll be more time and resources available to the project, it can grow by some of the following, for example (in the order of priority):

• Project: Found an environmental club in any city, town or village
• Service: CD/DVD from free books to download by torrent (too)
• Service: Two-sided handwritten sheet in PNG for local clubs
• Service: A fashionable, environmentally friendly, free font
• Project: Alternatives to the one-time-use throw-away packaging
• Project: Work out any of the ideas in the book as longer studies
• Service: Translation of FEcoWebS to German, Spanish, Russian, etc.
• Service: Parts of the CIA World Factbook and their translations
• Service: Audiobook from the first chapters of the book, etc.

There are additional ideas for services fit to a non-static website with an own domain name, which would not necessarily be open-source (in the order of priority):

• Popularity: Better web design, web counter, SEO, PHP, etc.
• Popularity: Better connection to popular social networking websites
• Popularity: Automatic link exchanges, promoting into link collections
• Service: Private messaging to the webmaster (not just email)
• Service: Select a city or town, know the eco-opportunities there
• Service: Spreading of already present environmental technologies through different countries
• Service: Customized web search or advertisements to give us money
• Service: Any user input except entering text (e.g. rating, questionarrie)

People could help in some of the developments above, or in some of the smaller tasks below:

• Visit the FEcoWebS homepage regularly, testify the changes
• Checking, finding possible errors, corrections, review
• Joining to the mailing lists of FEcoWebS, accessibility
• Popularizing the FEcoWebS homepage in social media and elsewhere
• Appliance of the principles of the FEcoWebS homepage in local communities

Anyone who is interested can join or add suggestions on the mailing list, or on Árpád Fekete's public email addresses (it is suggested to send the email to BOTH of the following addresses, for web security):

 

For security, it may also be important to put the FEcoWebS homepage or some of its parts to more and more places on the web and elsewhere. Install it to more URLs and more knowledge management systems, and put its writings in more formats, into more electronic libraries, more blogs, more online or print newspapers, etc.

Online presence

fecowebs.ourproject.org This is the main installation.
kampanyok.atw.hu

/fecowebs.zip

This is a zip file in case ourproject.org would go offline.
lmv.hu A smaller part of the writings have appeared here in the "Kreatív Környezetvédő Tükör" blog ("FeketeArpad").

other places

: On Twitter:

@fecowebs

, on Google+: see email.

During the Free Eco Web Services (FEcoWebS) project Árpád Fekete's language, writing, web development, social and project management skills have improved, and this project can help in getting fame, reference, good karma, connections and new opportunities too. That's why the development is worthy even as a hobby, but the ideal way would be to do it more professionally, for money, with the support of an environmentalist organization. Árpád Fekete has other goals in life too, so not much time is spent on this project from his free time.

FEcoWebS version: 1.5.18 (year-2012.month.day)