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The inclusion MR was merged on 2026-07-25 and the app page went live on 2026-07-28 (v0.1.16, no antifeatures), so the landing page can finally offer both stores. - site: publish the F-Droid link and give each store link a single-colour icon, so the two are told apart by shape (play triangle vs. the free-software robot) rather than by brand colour. The badge row is a flex row now: left-aligned in the hero, centred under "Get Tane". - README: an Install section with both stores, and a Status that matches reality (Block 1 shipped, Block 2 under way) instead of "early design". - release.md: record that the app is published, that further releases only need a versionCode bump in the fdroiddata recipe, and that publication lags the green build by a day or two. - open-decisions.md: log what unblocked inclusion — reproducible developer-signed builds, a Google-free APK, and opt-in networking.
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Tane 種
A local-first, decentralized app for managing and sharing traditional seeds and seedlings.
Tane (種, "seed" in Japanese) helps people and collectives keep a friendly inventory of their seed bank, decide what they offer, and share it locally — without a central intermediary that could control, censor, or be fined for it. Its name comes from tanemaki (種まき), "to sow / scatter seeds". The goal is both practical and political: to support traditional seed varieties and push back against the seed monopoly.
The name honors the old Japanese mutual-aid traditions around rice — yui (shared community labor) and tanomoshi (reciprocity funds) — that inspired the paper Plantare, the "community currency for seed exchange" (BAH-Semillero, 2009, CC-BY-SA). Tane is the digital Plantare.
- Web: https://tane.comunes.org
- Package id:
org.comunes.tane
Install
Android, same signature in both stores — you can switch between them without reinstalling:
- F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.comunes.tane/ (reproducible, developer-signed build)
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.comunes.tane
Status
Block 1 (inventory) is shipped and in beta; Block 2 (the social layer) is under way. See PLAN.md for the full analysis and roadmap (in Spanish) and docs/design/open-decisions.md for the live decision log. The valuable prior work lives in docs/mockups/.
Principles
- Local-first. Works fully offline, no account, no central server. Stays useful even if no one maintains it.
- Decentralized. Identity is a single key you own (Duniter/Ğ1-style, with a derived subkey for transport); sharing rides on open protocols (Nostr), with optional interoperability with the Ğ1/Duniter web of trust and currency. Never a central marketplace.
- Free/libre. Copyleft software, open data formats, multilingual from day one.
- Layered. Inventory -> Offer -> Local sharing -> Web of trust. Each layer is useful on its own.
Conventions
English is the project language for all code. Identifiers, class/field/column names, code comments, commit messages, branch names, and technical documents (data model, schemas) are written in English, without exception. This keeps the project contributable by anyone, anywhere.
- User-facing strings are never hardcoded — they go through i18n (the app itself is multilingual by design).
- Planning and discussion documents may be written in Spanish (e.g.
PLAN.md,docs/design/data-notes.md); technical specs that feed code are in English (e.g.docs/design/data-model.md). - Database schema changes ship as versioned Drift migrations (
drift_schemas/), one new version per change, never editing a released version. Seedocs/design/data-model.md§5.
License
Software: AGPL-3.0 (GPLv3 strengthened with the network clause; compatible with GPLv3 and with Duniter/Ğ1nkgo, which we reuse). Docs & assets under CC-BY-SA where noted.