Elinor 🌱
Community shift coordination that lives where the community already talks — Telegram — and stores everything on an open protocol — Nostr.
Named after Elinor Ostrom: clear boundaries, rules people shape together, and transparency instead of permissions. Try /principles in the group.
What it does
/shifts— a day browser in the group (◂ today ▸) with each shift's crew and open spots, and buttons that open the Mini App on the right screen. Sent inside a topic, it makes that topic the home of all shift messages.- Mini App — your upcoming shifts, sign up or cancel, tap an open spot to add anyone (type a new name to create a guest), tap a name to message or remove them. Live: signups from other apps appear while it is open.
- Announcements — every change is posted publicly and attributed (@paul added @xavier to …). A cancel carries a Join Dana button so the freed spot is easy to cover.
- Reminders that recruit — the evening before and an hour before, one public message per shift mentioning the crew, with a join button while spots remain; a gap alert at 19:00 for tomorrow.
- Morning report — optional daily post: weather for your city, one line per shift, how many people are still needed, sign-up button.
- Calendars — subscribe once to your personal feed or the whole group's (Apple, Google, any ICS app).
- Guests — people not on Telegram can be put on shifts; when they join, their history follows them.
- Settings — the shift catalog (names, times, capacity, descriptions), guests, mirror relays, notifications topic, morning report — all in the app, every change announced.
- Whiteboard sync — a physical board and the app can be reconciled from a photo by any agent using the whiteboard-sync skill.
For developers & agents
All shift data is standard NIP-52 calendar events on wss://relay.commonshub.dev; the bot is just one client. The protocol docs cover occurrences (kind 31923), signups (31925), identity attestations (31926), community definitions (34550), read filters and write rules. Markdown: docs.md.
- Coordinator key:
3f432836bece7b0a06dcbaef023f113fdcb10f96fbf98f35dd2e3b3a3c0e2dcbnpub18apjsd47eeas5pkuhthsy0c38lwtzrukl0uc7dwa9can50qw9h9s0n2qfd - Source code: a NIP-34 git repo on our Buzz server (membership required):
https://buzz.commonshub.dev/git/3f432836bece7b0a06dcbaef023f113fdcb10f96fbf98f35dd2e3b3a3c0e2dcb/elinor-telegram-bot - Stand-alone site: https://elinor.commonshub.dev