More new members! Welcome to the community! Great to have you here and looking forward to collaborating!

@christianmairoll

I was asked via Facebook to contribute my ideas, so I’d like to do. :)

@dominik

I´d like to contribute to the discussion about financial sustainability of loomio.

@keithdavis

I’m a developer and am new to Loomio, but am interested in the direction the project is going.

@karissamckelvey

I am a software engineer interested in building collaboration tools as well as the open data movement.

Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions :)

Welcome @wolftune, and thank you for providing an introduction!

I’m co-founder of Snowdrift.coop, a sustainable Free/Libre/Open focused fundraising system run as a co-op. I’ve been interested in Loomio since I first heard about it many months ago. We’d like to partner and get Loomio to be a project we help fund. I’ve also engaged with some of the other Enspiral folks already and other mutual connections.

As a co-op ourselves, we’re interested in the best tools for decision-making.

Great to have you as part of this community - looking forward to interesting conversations!

Welcome @paulfenwick !

I’m @pjf on twitter, and I’m strongly involved in free culture, global justice, and social justice. You can find various writings at https://pjf.id.au/

Ooops for automatically generated usernames. :) I'm now @pjf on Loomio as well. ;) And thank you for the welcome, @alanna ! :)

Welcome new people!
@gb

I’m a new Loomio user, I would like to approve/like some features that have been suggested, and I may bring some ideas too.

@danielgoldman

I have a tech/game/entrepreneurial background, and passionate about social and economic justice, and agency.

@jacopo

I volunteer on the development of Airesis a similar platform to Loomio and I am interested in the different vision and method that are implemented in Loomio. I hope I can give as an informed person my contribution.

Welcome new and not-so-new community members! Thank you for your introductions!

@Rafa Cordoba

I am the coordinator of the group “can cunit” and I would like to participate, to propose changes and report errors found.

sorry for my english.

spanish:
soy el coordinador del grupo de “Podemos cunit” y me gustaría participar puesto que me gustaría proponer cambios e informar sobre errores encontrados.

@billy1

Hi, this is Billy, went on the first Loomio retreat ages back, now have a new Loomio account since I came on as an Enspiral contributor, and would be easier to use just one account on Loomio, hence trying to sign up under this account now…

Welcome @joemitchell1!

One of your many funders! Dreamer of digital democracy dreams. Keen to help out Loomio where I can.

Please feel free to share your dreams with us :)

Thanks Hannah! What an extraordinary group of people! (Loomins? Like Moomins?)

Well, the dreams are of global digital democracy.

Plenty of folks - from Ancient Greeks to medieval theologians to modern scholars in the postwar-moment - have dreamed about global democracy. But I think we're just starting to see how it might actually be possible. Not through a world parliament - another representative body distant from its people - but through constant debate, engagement and participation online.

Loomio is the sort of tool that allows us to reimagine global political decision-making. It's exciting! And, I think, a key to solving some of the great global challenges - climate change, poverty, inequality, and so on.

So no pressure Loomins!

Good luck! And keen to help out in anyway I can.

P.S. If you're interested in the idea of global digital democracy, I've put together a quick presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/j0e_m/global-digital-democracy-16975729

@joemitchell1 - Loomins! Love it!!

That slidedeck was AWESOME. I am going to tweet that from @loomio right now :D

Welcome to the Loomio Community @moralfj!

I would like to know how I can to work better with Loomio because I dont know too many things about this tool.
Thanks

Maybe you'd like to tell us a little more about yourself? And if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask!

Hello, I am an environmental activist interest in engaging with and mobilising more people. I am a little unsure of how I can do this on Loomio but I am really excited by the language being used in the threads and especially terms like, enabling, open source and transparency.

Please welcome our newest members! Thanks for providing us with introductions!

@manuelgonzalezmend

muy buenas me llamo Manuel González Méndez natural de san juan del puerto huelva y estoy interesado en aprender y colaborar

@salvaramosr

Hola, GRANDE, BRAVO, pertenezco a un círculo de PODEMOS en Valencia, y estamos muy satisfechos e interesados en el desarrollo y evolución de “Loomio”.
Gracias.
Salut.
Salva Ramos, aprendiz.

@abdullahkhalid

Just trying to understand what Loomio is all about.

Hello, BIG ONE, BRAVO, I belong to a circle of PODDEMOS in Valencia, España, and we are delighted and interested in the development and evolution of "Loomio".
Thank you.
Salut.
Salva Ramos apprentice.

Thank you for your generous words @salvaramosr! Looking forward to collaborating :)

Welcome to the Loomio Community @morvan! Thank you for providing us with an introduction

I work for the city hall in Nantes (France - Brittany).
I have to study the differents way to talk with the citizens and the issues of the e-democraty and this sorts of web sites and web tools.
Your potential is huge.

Welcome @jeandaniel ! thanks for such an epic introduction, I'll paste what you've written here for everyone to see. Feel free to let us know what else you'd like to connect with people about. thanks!

"Who am i? Well, first, I’m an admirer. I admire what Loomio has achieved so far in terms of a container and process to allow groups, teams, communities to agree on goals, challenges or solutions that they care about.

Also I admire the level of penetration you have already achieved. That’s great momentum.

I admire the social enterprise orientation as well. Your minds and hearts are in the right place.

I’m also a designer of online deliberation processes, and I have a few ideas that could be useful for the Loomio road map - it’s got such a head start, it makes sense to contribute that way rather than to reinvent stuff for nothing.

I have many backgrounds all vying for attention here.
- I am a business management consultant helping organizations become more effective at what they want to be, do, have.
- I am a cyberneticist in that I use Beer’s Viable Systems Model to diagnose dysfunctions in organizational processes and structure, and resolve them to maximize their viability.
- Until recently I was the architect of the e-Deliberation process, an on-line group deliberation platform.
- I also work with poverty stricken communities to help them bootstrap themselves unto a better place.
- I am remodeling the maple kitchen cabinets in my house on Vancouver Island, Canada. :)"

Also WELCOME to @gizemcandemirkilic

Would you like to introduce yourself?

Hi, I'm interested in democratic decision making tools.

@jeandaniel - glad to have you! Please share your ideas for Loomio in the Feature Ideas group - looking forward to hearing about them!

Welcome @BenBurton! Thanks for providing us with an introduction - care to tell us a little more about yourself?

I learned about Loomio a few months ago and am starting to get invested in the tool. I would love to help the project grow in some fashion.

I have a beard and wear a hat?

Thanks @BenBurton! I also occasionally wear a hat, but alas, no beard.

Welcome @oscarfonseca1! Would you be interested in telling us a little about yourself?

I'm a spanish software developer interested in collective intelligence, innovation management and how online communities are structured. Lately I'm focused on how extract useful information from online debates.

I think I can contribute with new ideas.

@hannahsalmon :)

I've been working independently for years on a digital solution for the troubles we have in U.S. politics and somewhat recently ran across this software. I'm cometely reinvigorated by the potential of what we can do with Loomio. I'm really excited by the prospects.

@BenBurton Hi Ben, Where are you based? I'm in Providence, RI and met Loomio team last year when i spent some time in Wellington and am now working with them from the US.

@mjkaplan Chicago, Il. I'm not sure what I can offer yet but I'm going to figure it out.

@BenBurton I have plans to be in Chicago mid-February.

@mjkaplan Guess we'll have to set up a time to meet. It would be great to start networking with US based folks.

Please welcome our newest community members!

@salvadortelloalapo, @abelloblancoana - would you care to tell us a little about yourselves?

@xurelofresco

Hello, I am a teacher interested in alternative education. Now I am in Denmark as a volunteer and I am using loomio to still in contact with a group of people from a social movement to work in a project.

I’d like to know more about loomio community and show this tool to my students.

@salvadortelloalapo, in response to your question about importing contacts, I might direct you to this discussion: https://www.loomio.org/d/EdVSGFxa/new-feature-import-contacts.

When you click the "Invite people" button on the right-hand side of the group page there will be an option for importing google contacts underneath the email addresses field.

If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to contact us. Alternatively you can start a discussion in the Help subgroup :)

Welcome to the community @neo! Thanks for the introduction :)

I live in the US and the government here seems terribly dysfunctional. I’ve been learning about things like facilitation, group decision making, and governance, and Loomio looks like a fascinating way to do some such things online.

Welcome @CamilleMosely! Thanks for the introduction!

Hi,
I’m about to become a discussion facilitator, and I’d like to learn more and take part in discussions on loomio and it’s functionality

A big welcome to our new community members!!!

@germanperezperez

Hola a todos, soy de Madrid y quiero aprender más sobre el uso de loomio, con el fin de poder moderar grupos.

@josemanuel15

He creado un par de grupos para mi círculo en Bilbao y tengo muchas dudas que espero ver solucionadas. Es un grandísimo programa.

Welcome to the Loomio Community @sarra! Thank you for providing us with the following introduction:

Find out more about how groups on here work to see if my group could use this platform

Care to tell us a little more about yourself?

If you have any questions about Loomio please don't hesitate to get in touch :)

Please welcome our newest Loomio Community members!

@gregorycassel

Hi, I’m critically interested in online decision-making tools, and Loomio looks most promising. I’m an admin at an unusual and ambitious social/political discussion group
( https://www.facebook.com/groups/bridgethedivide/ ) and I’m working on my own crowdfunding project to stimulate more consensus and supermajority based culture, economy and government on all scales of social organization.

@josetxo, we'd love to hear a little about you and why you're hear if you would be willing to provide us with an introduction?

@haithamshammaa

interested in loomio data

A big welcome to our newest community members! Wonderful to have new voices in here!

@valmirduartecosta

Sou um ativista politico e pretendo auxiliar grupos de pessoas a utilizarem a plataforma como instrumento de democracia participativa.

@fernandocastanedac

Me parece una excelente herramienta de comunicación grupal

Hello Loomites, or loomers, or loominosos or what have you, and thanks to @benjaminknight for the invite. i'm a digital video producer, both inside and outside of corporate structures and systems. i've launched various products over the years, including huff post live on the west coast of the US and various video channels, jash.com, vogue.com, wired.com etc. etc.

looking forward to seeing what can be done to make this the strongest collaboration tool in the world. i'm a more-features person, so that's probably what you're going to hear from me.

Hi @robertgreen. Welcome to the network! I'm a team member based in Providence, RI and working on strategy, funding and growth. I hear often that we need to do better/more story telling. It'd be amazing to capture digital stories from users around the world. Your thoughts?

hello @mjkaplan and thanks for the welcome! what would be of greatest benefit to Loomio's funding and growth in the short term would be a video that shows how loomio is being used in the "real world" right now. the power of this tool is in its use cases, and its use cases are exciting, interesting, and compelling. making this connection would be easy--using user-generated and found and news footage mixed with testimonials...8 or 9 minutes later, you have something pretty exceptional.

but i would say that. i produce video for a living! as they say: "to a hammer every problem looks like a nail."

Thanks @robertgreen for your quick and thoughtful reply. How feasible is iit to produce this with low/no budget? The value would be enormous but our resources are spread thin right now.

@mjkaplan it's probably one editor, one researcher, and one VO artist. you need to get the research done by someone for free inside loomio & friends, and the VO could be done by a Loomio person as well, so it just comes down to a REALLY good editor's time. i can ask around and see what i come up with, but assume you will have to pay that person something.

if you don't want to show this video on youtube or in public (e.g. if it is only for potential investors, embedded in a deck and so on) then you are able to use any images and music/sounds without licensing issues, so that's worth considering as well.

Hmm interesting

Welcome new community members! Please make yourselves at home!

@hbz, would you care to tell us a little about yourself?

@knohl

Hi, I’m a member of a few Loomio groups. I’m Interested in direct democracy, collaborative decision making, participatory communities and cooperatives. I’d like to fallow the development of Loomio, and in the future contribute myself and connect more people and related initiatives to the group.

@podemsantapola

Nos gustaría pertenecer al grupo para ampliar nuestros conocimientos. Gracias.

@ilyakuchaev

Hi there!

I’m interesting in the Loomio translation and development.

Thanks!

Please welcome our newest community member! Thank you for providing an introduction @laura52!

Soy periodista e investigadora. Estoy haciendo una tesis sobre construcción de conocimiento en “espacios de interacción” en entornos colaborativos. Esta herramienta es ideal para compartir y probar el modelo que estamos desarrollando. Un saludo.

Welcome @toddscottanderson - great to have you join us :)

Hello, I’m an avid surfer in California with a background in software engineering for community-focused startups. Here are some projects I’ve been a part of that I’m very proud of: BeelineReader.com’s bookmarklet; Civinomics.com; theHomie.com (in development)

Hey @alandavison welcome to the community and thanks for sharing :)

My name is Clark and I live in the UK.

I was looking for an open source or low-cost tool to facilitate group discussion, voting and decision making. Having drawn a blank I stumbled across Loomio. As a Software / Network Engineer who specialized in User Interface Design and testing many years ago I was very impressed with the early beta and became a supporter through the crowdfunding campaign.

Very much looking forward to testing the mobile version and putting it to good use for local (to me) SocEnt and non-profit purposes, and of course recommending the platform to commercial organisations wherever possible in the hope that they will “pay what they can” to help keep this excellent resource free.

Also welcome to another crowdfunding contributor, @guillaumemarceau :)

Hi Rich,

I have been looking forward to testing this early release for ages, November seemed to go so slowly for me but I doubt that was the case in "Loomio Land".

I have also been reading through the Future Funding topic, there is so much to read I have not yet worked my way through it all. I do have some ideas for revenue streams but will finish reading the topic before posting.

Just a quick question :

Do you have rough numbers for the number of people using Loomio on a country by country basis, for example here in the UK? This may hemp me to flesh out my "Funding" ideas.

Thanks again for all your hard work.

Clark.

Hi, great to be here. First thing I'm doing is finding the discussion about monetizing options, I want to share an idea about gleaming a fee from of any crowdfunding the loomio platform may facilitate.
-Todd Anderson
@thehomie

Hi @richarddbartlett, I'm a software dev and an occupy activist here in New York. We're working on an eviction defense project, as well as creating a learning collective where domain expert in social justice can learn how to code of their own hands, instead of having to rely on the (sometimes misguided) generosity of professional developers.

I've been tracking loomio for quite a while. I'm really impressed with the new loomio with all you work. Congrats!

Good question Clark - I've attached a map of logged in users over the past 24 hours, to give you a bit of an idea. (3000 people from 60 countries).

FYI here is the thread about future funding is here:
https://www.loomio.org/d/mUOKA6vc/long-term-financial-sustainability-for-loomio

Welcome @colinengland !

Who am I? Just some guy massively interested in online collaboration and improving democracy through the use of tools such as Loomio. I’m also a student at Unitec learning how to code.

Hi All,

Thanks for adding me to the group!

Way back in the early days I worked with a great group of people putting directory.occupy.net together. These days most of my time is spent on the Occupy Together Facebook page.

Congratulations to everyone in getting Loomio to this point...it's truly a terrific accomplishment! I look forward to seeing our community grow and taking part in this exciting adventure.

In Solidarity,

Inga

Welcome @elimisteve !

Hi, I’m the one who just provided 15 points of feedback, not because I’m a hater, but because I want Loomio to be even more awesome than it already is :-) Co-founder of Santa Barbara Hackerspace

waves at you from Ojai

We love feedback!

Welcome @laurent2! Thanks so much for your contribution! Please make yourself at home.

Hello,
After contributing with the crowdfunding compaign, I would like follow threads in the community.
Best regards,
Laurent

Hi @alanna, and thanks! Hello, all :-).

I've participated in the crowdfunding campaign, participated in Occupy, co-founded a non-profit (hackerspace), am a programmer, am an entrepreneur, and love democratizing forces... so, as you can imagine, I am all-kinds-of-excited when it comes to Loomio!

Great work on the 1.0 preview, and I look forward to using Loomio more and seeing what 1.0 becomes.

Welcome @lenaraverle !

I’m a Loomio supporter, looking forward to see it fully operational and would love to contribute to the process!

Welcome @samrye and @philipdouglass to the community!

Kia ora koutou!

I'm incredibly lucky to call the core Loomio friends and peers - I work across our office space in Wellington, Aotearoa NZ on a social lab initiative called Lifehack (http://lifehackhq.co) which aims to improve youth wellbeing.

Personally I'm ecologically-minded, love having my fingers in the dirt and feeling the elements on my face, and am enjoying living and working shoulder to shoulder with the amazing humans I'm fortunate enough to have met and built things with here in New Zealand.

I'm an Unapologetic Generalist; currently geeking out on psychology, neuroscience, design, biomimicry, and a few other things besides.

Welcome @christineyancy !

I’m an administrator of an active discussion group on Facebook, Bridge the Divide, and would like to explore how Loomio could work to facilitate democracy in our running of the group.

Also welcome to these new people! Would you like to tell us a bit about yourself?

@dustinwoods @peteruithoven @anakegoodall @CoolBalla15 @benrosenthal @jan12 @dimitris @ralfharing

A very special welcome to you @christineyancy , my great colleague and friend. :)

I can vote if you want to quarter it?

The stated position count is showing 3/646 rather than the 2 showing.

Thanks, Alanna and Greg! Greg and I have been administrators at the Bridge the Divide (BTD) Discussion Group for a year and a half. We have recently helped steer our fellow administrators away from authoritarian-style leadership, and want to encourage the group to be horizontally run. We understand the limitations of Facebook groups, and are interested in exploring various platforms, as well as theory related to consensus-style management and group process. Our experiences with the BTD group inform our views. Greg has some especially exciting project ideas, and I'm very interested in helping with what he's developing.

My background is in Library and Information Science. I have a masters degree in this subject, and in my past life (before staying at home with my three young kids) I worked for seven years as a University Librarian and Archivist at the University of Detroit Mercy, in Detroit, MI. I also have a bachelors degree in English. One of my most passionate guiding principles is upholding intellectual and academic freedom. I'm radically anti-censorship and in 2012, in a pivotal event for me personally, was actively involved in opposing book banning at my kids' high school. I love seeking truth (lifelong learning) and helping others achieve self actualization. I believe that everyone has something unique to teach me. The Loomio community might well be a good fit for me, and I'm excited to learn more about it.

Hey @ralfharing it's great that you want to play around with Loomio's features, but this particular thread is for introducing new community members. If you'd like help using features, please post in the Help subgroup. Thanks!

Thanks for your warm welcome, @alanna! I learned about Loomio at an Impossible hackathon at UC Berkeley last fall and I'm excited to join the community of users.

My group house of five has been unable to schedule a house meeting in the last several months, so I'm grateful for Loomio's public launch. It is serving as an appropriate venue for us to engage in some consensus-based decision-making as we express our needs and resolve our frustrations at home.

Professionally, I coach Mac users at all levels and I have developed a good reputation for providing useful UI and UX feedback on new apps. Last year I completed my MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts.

Welcome!

@thomashuulbaek

Developing for Alternativet (Danish political party)

@muppeth

I’m interested in your project. Currently trying to set up instance on my own server. I would like to contribute to the project and be active in its development.

Please welcome our newest community member @justinpierce!

I’m an indie video game developer that happens to have a lot of interest in fixing democracy.

Great to have you here!

Welcome @thomasschreiber !

I’m a developer at cel.ly. I’m interested in discussing the Loomio API (if it exists and if not the potential roadmap for building an API in the future).

The API is definitely on the roadmap - maybe @robertguthrie can say more about it?

For the time being at least we're pointing people to this discussion to talk about the API. Basically we want to hear use cases in as much detail as possible, so it would be great if you could let us know what kind of integration you have in mind @thomasschreiber :)

cc: @robertguthrie

@thomasschreiber See also https://github.com/loomio/loomio/issues/1530, which @robertguthrie linked me to in a discussion I can no longer find...

<-- Too slow

Welcome @philipsteiner

I’m trying to promote the use of loomio to my local meshnet community where decision making is really not working well.

Welcome @adamjorlen !

Futurist and co-founder of the enkel collective - a co-operative in Perth, which explores new possibilities for Western Australia. Currently testing Loomio for our decision-making process.

Please welcome our new community members!

Welcome @acindino!

Soy un indignado ante la insensibilidad social

Welcome @salvadorpagaza1!

Goup coordinator, political, Galiza

Welcome @carlosgallogaravan!

Estoy utilizando Loomio para potenciar la Participación Ciudadana en Canarias - España y para ello desarrollé en español un tutorial y su anexo para facilitar su utilización y ambos se encuentran en internet.

Make yourselves at home!

Welcome new voices!

Welcome @Gabi Boss!

Gostaria de fazer parte do grupo para conhecer melhor suas funcionalidades

Welcome @andretakahashi!

Me interessa o desenvolvimento de ferramentas colaborativas voltadas para a democracia.

Welcome @enrica! Care to tell us a little about yourself, and why you were interested in joining the Loomio Community?

Welcome @erica1!

Learning more about how Loomio works!

Hi!
thanks for accepting my request!
We're a newly born italian non profit association "Staisinergico" (www.staisinergico.it - still in progress). Our association works on the themes of coworking, sharing economy, social innovation.
As we're spread all over the region Apulia and I personally live and work in Berlin, we have been looking for a platform that could improve our workflow, communications and decisional process. I found out about Loomio through the CAPS2020 platform and i thought it was great: therefore we created a Staisinergico group and are now in the process of beginning to work on some projects using Loomio!
Looking forward for more to come!! and collaborate with you, from the user point of view, in improving it!
Cheers
Enrica

Please say hello to our new community members!

Welcome @jonaslagander!

Hello!

I´m new in this and would like to know more about using Loomio

Welcome @egon@jenaspora.de and @alvaro! Care to tell us a little about yourselves?

Welcome @ahsanthakur!

I am ahsan ali thakur, I am the Vice chair person of youth Committee of ICA Asia and Pacific region and I recently started to use Loomio its a great app for my committee.
i just like to add my feedback and suggestion to the discussion.

Welcome @miguelafdezgaliano!

hello.
i’m trying to lear a bit about this tool for political use. i hope that this is a good place to start from

I just like to see this app flourish.
One of the suggestion is if you could create a schedule time table voting area. That would be great. Like for example, Doodle...
it makes life democratic and easy to conduct our meeting.

Welcome new members!

@benoit3

I am developer interested by the positive social changes that technology can bring to us.

@shacharradinshomra

CMO of an ad tech company. Looking forward to be using Loomio for our enterprise decision making. Lacking some weighted voting mechanism / bidding mechanism.
Looking forward to test the new version.

@johnkellden

Looking forward to learn more and to participate.

Great to have you here!

Welcome @carol!

We want to use loomio for our community energy cooperative

Great to have you here. Please let us know if there's anything we can do to support your group :)

Please say a big warm welcome to our newest community members! Thank you all for providing introductions!

Welcome @drorzohar!

Hi
I am looking for new tools to support my community and social evolution work. What you folks are doing seems to be very much in line with what I am looking for. I want to explore your platform.

Let this be the beginning of a beautiful friendship :-)

Welcome @richarddillon!

Hi,
I am one of the founding members of ethicalBay workers co-operative, which is co-creating a co-operatively owned online ethical marketplace.
Here is our splash page http://www.ethicalbay.coop
we are also on Twitter @ethicalbay
Delighted to be part of the Loomio community

Welcome @henkdaalder!

Just started a new group, and finding out how all this works!

@borisrorsvort1

Hi, I’m the IT/Designer guy for the Brussels local Attac group

I'm really exited by this angular angular version ;) But it's still quite buggy. I've reported bugs to github as I know the tool pretty well but maybe it would be nice to provide a way for non techy people to submit theirs and suggestion in a easy way, no? Maybe It exist and missed it?

Congratz for all the work though, it rocks :)

Thanks Boris. Glad to hear you're excited about it. We're still on holiday in NZ - we know there are a lot of the issues with the system, there is still quite a lot of development to go . Because of this, individual bug reports at this stage might not be so useful, but we do appreciate the effort and support.

@robertguthrie Bug reports aren't useful at this stage? Why would that be? Thanks.

In short - it's not the feedback we feel is useful at this stage.

There is work involved in keeping up with them (bug reports). A lot of what you see in the angular version is not what we want it to be - meaning we still have some very important pieces of functionality to add.

We think that we know what most of the bugs are already - we're using this ourselves.

In any case we're not really interested in the bugs we don't know about until all the major functionality is in there. If we look at them we're taking time away from big stuff. So it makes sense to do them later.

We do want bug reports when we think we're approaching a real release, but until then it seems like a bad use of everyones energy.

Well, since you're using github issues, i guess we can at least use that channel right?
Otherwise we'll have to keep track ourselves of the potential bugs and manually see if they get fixed over time.

I'd be ok to reconsider this if It means we get more contributions and collaborators... I was thinking in a pretty uncollaborative way I guess.

Welcome @danielkasak! Thank you for providing an introduction - sounds like you're in the right place. Make yourself at home :)

I’m a software engineer, musician, and activist. I’m interested in using Loomio in various political organisations I’m a member of, and hopefully also contributing some code.

@robertguthrie As not-community-driven as the Loomio building process has been thus far, because us programmers who use Loomio aren't submitting pull requests? Sorry!

@robertguthrie Really, REALLY important question (which I've asked other Loomio members) that I want your take on -- what do you need to complete Loomio 1.0 ASAP? Pull requests, and donations to fund code-making? Are those the main 2?

@elimisteve I know you're really keen to help, but I'm on holiday after working really hard up to the end of last year.

Work will really pick up in Feb, but until then I personally don't have time to answer your requests.

The roadmap is the most up to date place for progress.

We're excited to open up the development processes as much as feels productive to us. @jameskiesel is taking on the role of supporting open source contributors. It seems like 2015 is going to be a promising year for real open source contributions, and we hope to help it thrive, but you might just need to be patient because of the specific time of year.

@robertguthrie You've kicked ass and have personally added hundreds and hundreds of thousands of lines of code to Loomio, which is amazing -- please recharge and enjoy your break! :-)

I'll think of more precise questions and maybe we can tend to them later.

@elimisteve Donations to help speed up the completion of Loomio 1.0 would certainly be welcome! You can do that through our crowdfunding page (which is still live), or if that doesn’t suit drop me a note (matthew.bartlett@loomio.org) and we’ll figure something out :)

@elimisteve just for the record, I've contributed a lot of code recently.. but the hundreds of thousands of lines are actually libraries that I copied in, then removed (which also counts as lines of work) as I was trying to solve the problem of deploying the angular system.

In fact, it was sloppy work done under time pressure. It might be possible to remove those commits from the tree to clean up the statistics.

Thanks @matthewbartlett.

@robertguthrie Fair enough.

Anyway, great work @matthewbartlett, Max Irving, @jessedoud, @simontegg, @hannahsalmon, @jonlemmon, @aaronthornton, @alanna, @robertguthrie, and others for your code and documentation contributions to Loomio in 2014!

Welcome @rickmendes! Thank you for the introduction!

I’m interested in federated web, #indieweb, and their use for grassroots movements. i have never used Loomio particularly for any reason, but i might introduce it at my job one of these days.

Welcome @emilolewilliamkirk! Care to introduce yourself?

Welcome @mal-eps!

We’re using Loomio to vote in EuroPython work groups. EuroPython is a large European Python conference.

Based on our experience and needs, I have some suggestions for improvements.

Thanks.

Sounds like you might be interested in joining our Feature ideas subgroup. We also have a public roadmap which documents what's coming up in our development pipeline.

Welcome @sarahnguyen! Care to introduce yourself? We would love to hear from you :)

Please welcome our newest members!

Welcome @tomwragg! Would you care to tell us a little about yourself?

Welcome @denjello! Thanks so much for providing us with an introduction!

I am an artist, author and media activist. I’ve been tasked with testing LOOMIO on our intranet for a non-profit with about 180 active members in Hamburg, Germany: http://das-gaengeviertel.info
My usual stack is linux / nodejs / jade / less / bash, but I’ll hack a bit of C++ if there is a need for speed. I’m a bit new to Ruby, but its all good.
In a love/hate relationship with ARM SoC’s and VPU’s.

Great to have you in here @denjello - I've loved your contributions on Github :)

Hey @denjello, super happy about your enthusiasm around Loomio lately. If you wanted to shoot an email address to james at loomio dot org, I'd love to set up a time we can chat about what areas of contribution might interest you.

Welcome to the community @diegosantamariamat! Care to tell us a little about yourself and what brings you here?

Welcome @ernestpayamontlleo!

Hola a todos/as, soy administrador de algunos grupos, y me parece una excelente herramienta participativa. Un abrazxo

Welcome @jakubbukaj!

I am a hacker interested in digital democracy. I’ve come across Loomio and am evaluating how it can be used for empowering people in being more involved in governance of all sorts. Would like to join the discussions.

Welcome @presley!

I’m considering using Loomio for my Burning Man camp and I’d like to get involved with the code at some point. I love the way this community works and I know I’ll want to follow some of its discussions.

Hi everyone, thanks for the welcome! I was thinking it might be useful for me to document the questions I had about how Loomio works that weren't on the help page before I forget and it all feels obvious :). This discussion is relevant but old; should I post there or elsewhere?

Hi @presley - I started a thread similar to what you mention, but it is more focused on the technical aspects of Loomio. Why don't you start your own thread too?

Welcome @presley! It would be so so great to hear what your questions were when you first started using Loomio.

We're underway on a documentation project to make the software as easy as possible to use, so your perspective would be a great insight :)

Welcome to the Loomio community @gorka5! Care to tell us a few words about yourself?

Hi Hannah. I'm a teacher and a multiactivist. I'm in Loomio because it's an good tool to discuss and I use it to discuss and vote in our organitzation when it's dificult to meet or vote in person.

Welcome @olover! Please make yourself at home :)

I have been looking for something like Loomio for a long time and am glad it now exists! I also believe in collective contributions to keep improving it and I’d love to be part of that.

Hey guys

I'm new to the group, my girlfriend and I recently stumbled upon Loomio and we immediately saw immense applicability of this tool to just about anything you can think of.

We're both active members of a leftist political party, into which we're going to implant Loomio as out main means of communication.

We're short on the tech knowledge about back-end stuff like the actual installation of Loomio (but so far, Hannah has been kind enough and patient with my questions), so we're taking it one step at a time.

Cheers

Welcome @andrejstanic! Great to have you in here :)

@andrejstanic If you are interested in the political idea of direct democracy facilitated by the internet, please consider joining Global direct democracy working group

Welcome @gust! Would you be interested in telling us a few words about yourself?

Welcome @niccolo! Thanks for providing an introduction :)

Hi - I am involved in setting up a community of cultural innovators across the mediterranean - we are looking for secure online decision making applications to use

Welcome @mandygabor! Thank you for your introduction!

Nyugdíjas könyvtáros, aki még szeretne valamit tenni az országért

Please make yourself at home.

Hi @raj2! Welcome! Thanks for providing an introduction :)

I ve been involved in IT for 20 years with considerable infrastructure, Web dev, cloud SDLC and worked on the periphery of open source project in my spare time. FOr some time I have been exploring democratic decision making systems which vest the power of decision making directly in the hands of people instead of representatives. I hope I may contribute to Loomio to bring our shared learnings together.

Welcome @naught101! Great to have you here :)

Just a user/FOSS fanatic. Using Loomio for organising a makerspace.

Just thought I would mention: "Happy Open Data Day!"
http://opendataday.org/

And for those who have problems with the military-industrial complex:
http://www.itworld.com/article/2885184/proponents-speak-out-against-warnings-of-open-data-s-dark-side.html

Please say hello to our newest community members!
Welcome @hannahkowalski!

hi from hamburg

Hello from Aotearoa New Zealand :)

Welcome @noamlevy!

As a certified Co-Play© consultant and team member, I’m excited and very interested to learn hoe Loomio can fit to our mehodologies and practices of brainstorming and decision making process.
So far it seems practical and simple to use, wich is what we are looking for.

Welcome @Nicorr!

Hello !

I currently lead a mobile game called “City Domination” (1M downloads).

I recently started to invite my community on Loomio, to make a more participative conception for new features. It has been so far (~2 weeks) a real success, so we are exited to dig further into collaboration.

I am also intrigued by open-source developpement and new ways to run organizations =)
I will be glad to contribute to the Loomio project, by discussing and maybe contributing to the software.

Best regards,

Nicolas

I love the idea of democratically organised city domination :P

Welcome to the community @xandergroeneveld! Awesome to have you here!

Hey all, My name is Xander I’m developer who is interested in contributing to meaningful open source projects. I work full stack and have extensive experience with rails, backbone, node, responsive css, app deployments and a moderate amount of devops experience. I hope I can help out and excited to dive deeper into angular. O and I’ve also had a fair amount of experience with the rails asset pipeline and setting up CDN’s.

Sounds like some great skills @xandergroeneveld - check Loomio out on Github if you want to explore the codebase further :)

Please welcome @andivida(!), who provided the following introduction:

I wish to learn more about the loomio.
Andi

Please let us know if we can answer any specific Loomio questions :)

hi alll :) I'm a member of a new ngo group in Szeged / South Hungary. We have organized a conference, the first one of other similar Hungarian movements, civil organizations. Our first group was dedicated to organize this conference.
Finished it, I want to "archive" it partially: leaving there only some of the adequate topics, and want to save, archive the other ones. Then create a new group to the second conference, to continue the organizing.

I couldn't find any solution to archive topics (searching in loomio, googling etc.), so I've saved them in word (foolish method, I know :) ) - then I've deleted them, and rename our original group.

Is there any good solution to solve this?

Thanks for your kind welcoming :)

Hi @andivida, apologies for the delay! Currently there is no functionality in Loomio for archiving discussions, however it has been discussed at length in the Feature Ideas subgroup, and there is a card for it in our public roadmap (which documents what's coming up in our development pipeline). Right now, we’re focused on finishing the transition to Loomio 1.0, but we’ll be digging into designing and developing functionality users want later in the year :)

We have some new community members joining us!

Please welcome @robertbest, who provided us with this introduction:

I use Loomio with the Metamaps.cc team. Would love to join this group.

And welcome @David! Care to tell us a little bit about yourself?

Please welcome @alisondonovan!

Hi - I am new to Loomio and wanted to ask a question that isn’t answered on the help page? I am having trouble opening attachments. My .docx file opens in another browser tab as gobbledygook!
thanks
alison

Hi Alison, it sounds like it could be a browser issue - are you able to save the file, and then open it using Word?

If you have any other technical questions about Loomio, or if you experience any further problems, please feel free to send an email to contact@loomio.org, or post them in our Help subgroup :)

I think there's a possible workaround for the current inability to archive discussions, but please correct me @hannahsalmon (or anyone) if I'm missing something. Coordinators could create a 'mirror group' (or subgroup) for 'Group X', with the same membership, and give it a name such as "Archives for Group X". They could then move any desired topics from Group X to the archives group.

This is obviously an imperfect solution, and would require some maintenance to keep the group memberships reasonably in synch. However, if and when Loomio develops an 'internal archiving' feature for groups, it would be possible in theory to move discussions back from 'Archives for Group X' to 'Group X'.

@andivida @gregorycassel
I use the following trick
https://www.loomio.org/d/0SI7AFNv/gimmicks-for-saving-information-of-personal-interest

@carlosgallogaravan really interesting!

Welcome @ziga!

we are a bunch of slovenians, working on an edemocracy project

Please make yourself at home :)

The only issue with that is integrity of officiality and arguments along those veins.

@elaineclermont can you please clarify which comment or comments you were referring to?

Please welcome @martinwilliamjudd, who provided this introduction:

Im Martin Judd , a kiwi living in the uk and a supporter of loomio and want to see it released on Ethereum!

Thanks for that! Great to have you here!

Welcome new community members!

Welcome @marcel2!

me gustaria participar en general y conocer loomio.org mas gracias.

Welcome @transitionmaike!

I’m a user of online-tools to facilitate activities in my community-based Transition-initiative in Berlin, but also searching for tools to help organise alternative economy-events like conferences and similar crowd-cooperation-projects where a lot of decision making and communication is necessary for people who are not always able to meet face to face.

@hannahsalmon Thank you for the welcome!
I joined this group because I am part of the Berlin group preparing the Open Source Circular Economy Days (osced2015.org) where I want to hold a workshop on open source event-planning tools for the kind of people I normally work with, that is for non-techie self-organized grass roots groups who have at times little experience in organizing their events. I want to enable them to do this more easily so they have more time to focus on their ideas to better this world together, and to help them with consensus decision making so they make better balanced decisions (this is why I love the four hand-symbols including the differentiation between disagree and veto).
I am no techie myself, but have much experience in decions making and group coordination porcesses.

Welcome @fernandogarcia1! Long time friend of Loomio!

Hello everybody,

I’m nando, a web developer living in Madrid (Spain) that last July try to implement a little Loomio improvement that needed a small translation change. Rich “Decibels” told me about Transifex and this group and I tried to make the translation changes myself.

I think Loomio is an amazing tool and will keep trying to contribute with it as much as I can.

In this photo I’m with the (injured) person that first told me about Loomio, Rai (Raimond García), together at the first PODEMOS Democratic BBQ, first informal meeting of the tech people (Círculo TIC) of the PODEMOS party at Madrid.

It’s a pleasure to be part of something like Loomio. Thank you to all of you that make it possible.

Cheers,
– nando

Yay nando!

Buenas Rich,

I didn't know that your second cousin will be talking at the Rails Conf!!! :-D

http://railsconf.com/program#prop_1115 ( http://railsconf.com/program#prop_1115 )

You've got an awesome family ;)

Cuídate,
-- nando

El 24 de marzo de 2015, 20:56, Richard D. Bartlett (Loomio) escribió:

Yay nando!

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Desactivar el correo electrónico ( https://www.loomio.org/email_actions/unfollow_discussion/2644/cVjdx_wJqJ5PNj1eyezj ) para esta discusión.

Cambia tus preferencias de correo electrónico ( https://www.loomio.org/email_preferences?unsubscribe_token=cVjdx_wJqJ5PNj1eyezj&utm_campaign=thread_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_source=new_comment ) para darte de baja de estos correos electrónicos.

Sorry Rich, she's Barrett, not Bartlett. :(

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2015-03-25 8:22 GMT+01:00 Fernando Garcia Samblas :

Buenas Rich,

I didn't know that your second cousin will be talking at the Rails Conf!!! :-D

http://railsconf.com/program#prop_1115 ( http://railsconf.com/program#prop_1115 )

You've got an awesome family ;)

Cuídate,
-- nando

El 24 de marzo de 2015, 20:56, Richard D. Bartlett (Loomio) escribió:

Yay nando!

—

Responde a este correo electrónico directamente o velo en www.loomio.org ( https://www.loomio.org/d/LuAlGpC3/introduce-yourself-to-the-loomio-community?utm_campaign=thread_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_source=new_comment#comment-582300 ).

Desactivar el correo electrónico ( https://www.loomio.org/email_actions/unfollow_discussion/2644/cVjdx_wJqJ5PNj1eyezj ) para esta discusión.

Cambia tus preferencias de correo electrónico ( https://www.loomio.org/email_preferences?unsubscribe_token=cVjdx_wJqJ5PNj1eyezj&utm_campaign=thread_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_source=new_comment ) para darte de baja de estos correos electrónicos.

A big welcome to our new Loomio Community members!

Welcome @olgasantoro! Care to tell us a little more about yourself?

Grupos de trabajo de Cambiemos Villalba

Welcome @martyspida!

Hi. I would like to join this group so that I may make comments on the Help documentation, and give feedback on Loomio (which I love and community groups I am in use heaps).

We would love to hear your feedback re. the Help documentation! The feedback discussion is here :)

Please welcome some lovely new people!

@anemariegasser and @rmccauley, care to tell us a little about yourselves?

Just started into this thing, I like the concept, so I'm exploring its potential applications and such, though with all the schoolwork I have I'm not sure how involved I'll be at any given point

A big warm welcome to our newest community members:

Welcome @janepurvis!

I am a public engagement advisor with the City of Edmonton and I want to explore how we can use Loomio.

Welcome @feesable!

Longterm geek and interested in Loomio as a platform for social change, but new to organising direct actions and would benefit from the advice of others with greater experience.
My group here is https://www.loomio.org/g/rZ83MAqx/sunday-afternoon-activists-club-saac and I’m planning this if anyone’s interested in participating http://www.reallybigroadtrip.com/nomadseoi/
Thanks, fee.

Please welcome our newest community members!

Welcome @antonioargoteberte!

Amateur coder, amateur filmmaker

Welcome @rowenaskinner1!

Greens member and interest in consensus decisions

Welcome @benjaminmelancon!

Hello! Loomio supporter for quite some time, not yet using it, but i think i’ll be allowed to participate here? (And so use Loomio!)

My goal is to pair democratic mass communication with democratic decisionmaking— so adding the part for how people hear about problems and goals for which decisions should be made and actions taken in the first place. But busy just earning a living for now.

Thank you for providing introductions. Please make yourselves at home!

Welcome to the Loomio community @davidbrydon! Thanks for providing us with a few words:

innovator - explorer
Keen to part of the new age of business management.

Welcome @ohrar! Thanks very much for providing us with an introduction. Please make yourself at home :)

Hi,
Thank you for your work. I am interested in new collaboration software and would like to join the group to try loomio and read what other users say.
Best regards, Ohrar

Welcome to the community @petrosatfreelab!

Coming back to more active use of Loomio, so I need to get into the loop as well. :-)

Care to tell us a little more about yourself?

No problem:
https://freelab2014.wordpress.com
https://amargipl.wordpress.com
https://www.facebook.com/petros.freelab

Please say a big warm welcome our newest community members!

Welcome @macroneabe!

I’m really interested in Loomio as an open-source, ethical, privacy-aware alternative for community activism and organisation.

And welcome @amelialoye!

I care about community, sustainability and representative government. I believe if we work together we can do great things. I’m a social scientist engaging community and stakeholders for Government. I also help Open and prepare Government to listen. I’ve also created a small business called engage2 so I can work with like minded people whose skills compliment mine so I can do what I do better.

Thank you both for providing us with an introduction!

Welcome to the Loomio Community @olivermintersolvol! Thank you for your introduction:

I already use Loomio for our our political party “Online Direct Democracy” (formally Senator Online) in Australia. We have just been given the go ahead from the AEC to contest the 2016 Australian Federal Election, whilst “The Australian Democrats” have been de-registered by the AEC (Australian Electoral Commission). I wish to ask someone in a loomio forum about how to use Video Conferencing Software for large groups of people. We need to find a sofware system that automatically queues people up so that EVERYONE can have a chance to talk, in a civilized & efficient manner.

This sounds like it could be a good thing to explore in the Group Coordinators Loomio group - a Loomio Community subgroup dedicated to the sharing of facilitation tips and tricks, and collaborative problem solving.

Hi Oliver - Maestro Conferencing are keen on getting involved in open gov and digital democracy. I spoke to Brian, one of the founders, about this last year. I suspect he'll be pretty open to an pro-bono or low cost trial run. Amelia

Please welcome our newest Loomio Community members!

Welcome @carlosrodriguez2! Thank you for providing us with an introduction!

I am member of an small asociation (80 members) of amateur astronomers in Spain.
We are testing Loomio for use by the group.

Welcome @damonmeledones! Would you like to tell us a little about yourself?

Hello, all! Part of a small group of people (80 members) trying to get an organization off the ground. We're geographically diverse and looking for a platform to build consensus and make decisions with. So far so good!

hi everyone - thankyou so much for your incredibly speedy replies and offers of support. i have written a reminder on my "to do list" to come back and talk with you about the issue i raised - however right now im swamped with work for the Online Direct Democracy party! we are very short staffed at the moment - but as each day goes by we are getting more organised... Thanks again for your replies - i promise i will be in touch over the next 14 days. Regards Oliver Minter.

OK my original question that I wanted to ask the Loomio Software Development team - was this:

There currently seems to be NO video conferencing software in the whole world that can queue people up automatically in a realtime democratic way to speak for large groups of people. Our Australian political Party - "Online Direct Democracy" formally "Senator Online" - currently uses the Google Hangout Software for Video Conferencing for our own Internal Party decision making - with groups of up to 11 people. We also (of course) use Loomio itself to make decisions. Loomio is far far easier to make decisions than Video conferencing - but occasionally we need to gather everyone in the same cyberspace at the same time to collectively solve a problem. (And it feels nice - to actually "see" and "hear" people - it fosters a sense of trust - and you can more easily understand people's personalities)

So I am wondering whether LOOMIO could create a PAID PREMIUM SERVICE for its clients that would include Video Conferencing for large groups of people. Some of the things that we as a party require this future software to do is to automatically queue people up for speaking. By this I mean for example "Anne" is currently talking and has been talking for about 3mins... Towards the end of her speech she suddenly inspires 4 others to reply to her or to raise a similar topic/idea. Currently as Google Hangout works - ALL 4 start trying to talk after Anne has finished. This leads to some microphones being muted - and general confusion - and a lot of - "oh sorry you go" etc etc... Could there be a solution to this? Could the solution be that as Anne was talking that Tom, Peter, Paul & Mary press a green button called NEXT as soon as they have an idea and want to talk? If Mary pressed the button 2 seconds before Tom - then Mary would automatically be queued up to speak next, followed by Tom etc etc. Everyone would see on the screen who is queued up next.... You could even have a time limit warning on each speaker - a clock countdown or polite reminder that you maybe "hogging" the meeting.

It would also be good if you could have a “like” button or a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" button - to use WHILST people are speaking….which would give realtime feedback to the speaker without 15 people trying to all say at once “yes - i agree with you”...

So does anyone think this could be possible?

Kind regards,
Oliver Minter
Online Direct Democracy Party (Australia)
https://www.facebook.com/oddemocracy

Welcome to the Loomio Community @nisjorgensen1! Thank you for introducing yourself:

I am interested in using Loomio for decision making processes for many organisations which I am a member of.

I would like to test out hosting Loomio myself …

Our installation documentation is viewable here, and we recommend joining our Installing Loomio subgroup, as you can post any installation questions you might have in there. And please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have further questions :)

@OliverMinter This thread is a great place to see new people. I would suggest your idea about video conferencing might better suit people in the Feature Ideas subgroup. You could join the group, start a new conversation about your idea, and post the link back here.

Thanks @lbjoum - i have now done that....

https://www.loomio.org/d/dicutTFf/video-conferencing-software-by-loomio

Welcome to the Loomio Community @joanma!

Would you care to tell us a little about yourself and why you were interested in joining this group?

Hi Loomio Community! Please welcome our newest community members!

Welcome @lou2!

HI. I can help the project interface.

Welcome @christianstorstein!

I am the digital engagement manager for the Scottish government and I am interested in using Loomio as a tool for engagement with citizens.

Thank you both for providing us with an introduction. Please make yourselves at home.

Welcome to the Loomio Community group @barnabyflynn! Thank you so much for providing such a detailed introduction:

Hello

I am investigating ways we can find our common humanity in the face of global threats. And I am a total nature nut.

I have a few questions regarding Loomio to see if it will be the best tool to use for our Global People Power project and to explore potential collaboration between us.

Global People Power is still in development and yet to be officially launched but the concept has recently become live. It is a globally participative democratic process focussing on creating just fifteen global policies to solve humanities’ most urgent global problems; problems such as climate change, war, inequality and the power that multi-national corporations wield over national governments. In order to avoid a first mover competitive disadvantage, the “Big 15” will be implemented by nations around the world in a synchronised and cooperative way. Global People Power is also a campaign and voting strategy to drive governments to cooperate.

Included in the democratic processes will be thinking tools in the form of emoticons to facilitate collaborative debate, systemic thinking and value awareness and honouring.

I have been attending Occupy and Occupy Democracy as I believe that the online process must be complimented by regular monthly, globally networked street demonstrations of our evolving democracy.

Can you please advise me? What I am looking for is a process that integrates Liquid Democracy and an intelligent participatory process like your own which we can use to create the Big 15? It will need to be open source so that it can be adapted to integrate the thinking tool icons within debate text, limit the number of proposals people can make (if necessary) and amend the timings of proposal-to-debate-to-voting of policy. Does the operating system you are building support these demands? How can we mutually support each other’s campaigns?

A big warm welcome to @christinatyson14! Thank you for providing us with an introduction:

Interested in knowing more about Loomio and how others are using it to help discussion and decision making.

In terms of finding out more about how others are using Loomio, you might also be interested in taking a look at this Loomio Community subgroup for group coordinators: https://www.loomio.org/g/7jWVDr04/loomio-community-group-coordinators. It is a public group for group coordinators (but accessible to anyone) to share information about how they're using Loomio and what's working, assist one another and collaborate.

Welcome to the Loomio community @stevehardt! Thank you for introducing yourself:

I'm a software engineer interested in decision-making tools and furthering the growth of e-democracy worldwide. Eager to see how Loomio is used.

Please make yourself at home. You might also be interested in taking a look at our Loomio Community subgroup for group coordinators: https://www.loomio.org/g/7jWVDr04/loomio-community-group-coordinators. It is described in the previous introduction.

Hello @stevehardt

As you are interested in decision-making tools and furthering the growth of e-democracy worldwide you might be interested in the Global DD group here on loomio. I am from an Australian registered political party called Online Direct Democracy and we are preparing for an Australian election within a year. My thoughts regarding Actuated e-democracy are developing and soon I will be keen to share them with people as a test of their ability to work.

So love if you would join us. It is an open group.

Bonjour, je m'appelle Bernard et je vis dans le sud de la France. Je milite dans les réseaux des communs et Pair à Pair, de l'économie collaborative et de la transition écologique.
Beaucoup de discussions m'intéressent sur Loomio mais j'aimerais plus de discussions en français.
Je pense en tous cas que Loomio est un outil fantastique pour construire collectivement des solutions durables pour le monde de demain.

Hello, my name is Bernard and I live in the south of France. I am active in the commons networks and P2P, sharing economy and ecological transition.
Many discussions on loomio interest me but I would like more discussions in French.
I think in any case that loomio is a fantastic tool to collectively build sustainable solutions for tomorrow's world.

Welcome back @cndiv!

Hello Loomio team!

I've actually been a part of this team before, and miss it.

Would you care to tell us all a little more about yourself Chip?

Great to see you again Chip! We missed you too :)
@cndiv

@benjaminknight! So good to hear from you as well!

Here's a quick introduction. I love this project and all Enspiral is up to. I think, completely honestly, that Loomio is have one of the world's most important free software projects. Plus, I'm beyond excited about the future of Cobudget. Both are so needed in so many ways.

To the point where I'm actually investing as much time in my life as possible at learning Ruby. I'm sick of not being able to contribute whole-heartedly to projects, and I'm going to learn so I can. (Any advice on that, reach out, @cndiv on Twitter.)

A little about me. I'm from the USA, I'm from St. Louis, Missouri, and I currently live in Oakland and work in San Francisco. I worked for the Wikimedia Foundation for 4.5 years, where I met @alanna and @benjaminknight as I argued for, and we started using Loomio internally.

I'm going to dig down and find out how Loomio is organized, but if it's acceptable for me to be around (silently, as I can't help yet) on how the project moves forward, I'd love to just listen and watch a team in action.

Thanks all!

@cndiv Chip that is seriously so humbling to hear, given that you've spent the last 4.5 years working on one of the most impressive and important achievements of human collaboration OF ALL TIME :)

Really really stoked that you're keen to get involved! Please lurk as much as you like, and let's have another chat some time soon

Welcome @hamishlow! Fantastic to have your voice in here, Hamish! Would you care to tell the community a little about what you're about? I reckon they would be stoked to hear it!

¡Kia ora tatou, hola de tod@s!

I'm Hamish, currently in Colombia and soon to start work with an amazing organisation Peace Brigades International (PBI) as a Field Volunteer for the next 18 months. I've been enamoured of this organisation for some time - PBI uses consensus in every level of decisionmaking (and has done so for 31 years, here lies the parallel with Loomio) - though as I haven't started yet it's important to mention that I'm not here in any official organisational capacity, I'm not certain how involved in these discussions I'll be able to be once I start due to the intensity of the work but hopefully I might be able to contribute in a useful capacity, but also I hope to promote the use of Loomio within PBI. It's a perfect match and could be really useful for the organisation.

This recent documentary is a great introduction to the work of PBI in Latin America... http://pbicolombia.org/2015/07/27/land-of-corn/

PBI also currently has projects in Kenya, Nepal and Indonesia...you might especially be interested in the Nepal project which following the resolution of the conflict in Nepal has focused on capacity-building for local NGOs which has involved the development of an online tool Nepal Monitor: https://www.nepalmonitor.org/

As for myself, I've recently left London where I've been working with the homelessness charity St Mungo's Broadway http://www.mungosbroadway.org.uk/ for the last 5 years. My academic background is in Peace and Conflict Studies, Fine Arts, Humanities... I've also been a volunteer mediator and restorative justice practicioner with Lambeth Mediation Service http://lambethmediation.org.uk/ the last few years, and I'm really interested in how Loomio can be
used as a tool to help individuals, groups and organisations develop improved understanding of conflict and to propagate these skills.

If there were no more work to do around conflict, human rights or social justice I would want to spend my time on purely creative projects of no discernable use to anyone. Art is about finding what we can share and a modest record of my journey so far is online here - http://hamishlow.net ... (in English and in Spanish....)

arohanui,

Hamish

@cndiv great to read your introduction. Thank you! Have you seen the latest work on the Loomio UI? visit https://www.loomio.org/angular to give it a go. With the release of this work our codebase becomes 50/50 Ruby and Coffeescript (which is super similar to javascript)

I'd love to talk further about product/development plans if you'd like.

Welcome @simon51! Thanks very much for providing us with an introduction:

Hi, I'm a french web developer (not ruby..! python and javascript ;) currently in Wellington interested in everything that empowers the community!

I haven't a lot of time to dedicate to project right now but if you need some javascript or some french translation, I will try to do my small part! :)

Cheers!

Please make yourself at home! You might also be interested in joining our Loomio Community translation subgroup, and here is the guide to getting involved with the Loomio translation process (in case you decide that's something you'd like to get into): https://github.com/loomio/loomio/wiki/Translation :)

Welcome to the Loomio Community @brtknr!

I am a coordinator in one of the groups.

Care to tell us a little more about yourself and your group?

Welcome @mat2!

Hi I would like to find out more about Loomio

Care to tell us a bit about yourself?

Hi @hannahsalmon, I am a coordinator in a local Green Party loomio group as we are experimenting with online democracy! So far, all in all a success story! Great what you guys have developed!

Welcome @pabloabelenda!

I am a sysadmin looking for poll software alternatives...

Care to tell us a little more about yourself?

I am from Galicia and I am looking for some software to support decision making processes on my company. Loomio seems to fit, but I want to be sure.

BR.

Let us know if there's any way we can help you be sure, Pablo :)

Welcome to the Loomio community @lukehilarityflegg! Care to provide us with an brief introduction?

Hi, I'm Alex - A software engineer of sorts.
Currently working on http://meshdemocracy.org - a trial of Liquid Democracy, though, tempted to drop it and see if I can get the best features into Loomio (or Represent.cc or vocaleyes)

Amongst other orgs, I work with @lukehilarityflegg on ChangeTheFuture

Kia ora @alexpb and welcome to the Loomio Community. It's a bit off-topic here, but I'd be curious to know what motivated you to create your own Liquid Democracy software instead of joining the LiquidFeedback team. Feel free to drop into the Aotearoa General Assembly or the NZ Pirates groups to talk more about the pros and cons of the different platforms.

Welcome @benhsieh!

I'd like to contribute to open source.

Thank you - we would love that! @jameskiesel is our open-source coordinator. It sounds like it would be good for you two to have a chat :)

Welcome @julia57!

I'm learning Rails at Dev Bootcamp, and for our final project, my team decided to learn about and try to make a contribution to Loomio.

We're really excited to hear that! I believe you're already in touch with James. Please make yourself at home here :)

Welcome @gustavovalerin! Care to tell us a little about yourself?

Welcome to @genevieveparkes! Genevieve is a member of the wonderful Enspiral community - care to tell us a little more about yourself Genevieve?

Welcome @sergiominni! Thank you for providing us with an introduction:

I am working as translator, I would like to deepen my involvement as a social worker and informal researcher about politics and online democracy

A big welcome to our newest community members!

Welcome @nolandarilek!

I'm a developer who has been peripherally aware of Loomio for a while but am now wanting to help out and contribute.

@jameskiesel is our open source coordinator - perhaps you two should have a chat :)

Welcome @fabioballi!

a free mind using loomio with critical but constructive eyes

Please make yourselves at home!

Hey @nolandarilek , feel free to reach out to me at james at loomio dot org if you're interested in making a contribution :)

A big warm welcome to a new community member! Welcome @marcbraun!

I just started a new project and think Loomio is a great tool

Care to tell us a little about yourself?

Welcome @stevebosserman!

I have met several members in other Loomio groups and enjoy the topics they explore and their conversations about them. Perhaps I can contribute to the exchanges...

We would love to have your contributions here! Please make yourself at home.

Welcome new community members!

Welcome @mihaibucur!

Hi, I m an open engagement fan from Romania, trying to better understand the platform.

Welcome @hangya!

Member of the Hungarian Scout Association

Welcome @wikihouseharry! Thanks so much for providing us with such an awesome introduction!

Hey Loomio community, I am from New Zealand where I lived in Christchurch for all my life. I studied JAAAZZZZZZ. I then lived through the earthquakes and started playing less jazz and instead contributing on fun projects like FESTA (Festival of Transitional Architecture), Gap Filler stuff (who didn't i guess!?), Exchange Christchurch (event and rentable maker/workspace), Neat Places (new post quake businesses or old ones reopening). I also started some of my own projects usually in the event space. I'm passionate believer in creativity and collaboration (yes those two buzz words the mean something different to everyone), im also passionate about good mental and emotional health which I think is HUGELY vital in community and work involving collaboration or just other people. Recently I moved to London where I landed at WikiHouse Foundation as their community host/guy/moderator/whatever you like. Since then everything I have done has been thrown into thinking around larger scale social movements and human behaviour, big fan of engagement (at one point I thought I was going to be a social media marketer HA), also big fan of openness and for anyone to have the ability to work with everyone on anything. I am currently introducing WikiHouse to Loomio with the hope that it may be the perfect tool for our growing community of members and 'chapters'. I also hope we can be a part of the Loomio community throughout this process as we all learn and share how to do things... well... better!

Thanks @hannahsalmon look forward to being part of it and also introducing my team to it!

Welcome @whit537! Thanks for providing us with an introduction!

Greetings! I represent a payments company called Gratipay, and to be honest, I think Enspiral/Loomio and Gratipay should be friends and partners. Over at Gratipay we're starting to think more seriously about our formal governance. Loomio is a tool we're considering adopting (https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/420) and Enspiral is an example we're considering following (https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/72#issuecomment-159727340). My immediate purpose for asking to join this group is to lurk and observe Loomio in action. May I? :-)

Please make yourself at home :)

Thanks @hannahsalmon! :-)

Thanks for sharing those github links @whit537. I'm working with WikiHouse Foundation and we're very much in a similar position, looking at structure and governance as the project grows.

A big warm welcome our newest community members!

Welcome @1807! Would you care to tell us a little about yourself?

Welcome @renato! Thanks for providing us with an introduction :)

Hi there! This is @Renato. I'm a Portuguese-BR translator with Loomio and probably will lurk much more before 'talk'.

(Asking to join the Community only in order to interact when 'needed').

Welcome fellow Enspiralite @ahdinosaur! Would you be interested in introducing yourself to the community?

meow. :cat2:

Lol

Welcome @jeromelaval! Thanks for providing us with an introduction!

I'm Jerome, from Montpellier, France. I'm here to check how Loomio can help my organisation, Autour.com.

Please make yourself at home :)

Welcome @rest! Would you care to tell us a little about yourself?

Thanks for welcome @hannahsalmon.

I'm web & backend developer and product manager in Korea. Currently operates two organizations such as UFOfactory and parti.xyz. UFOfactory ( http://ufofactory.org ) is a tech agency for social sectors (NPO, Social Enterprises) in Korea and parti.xyz ( http://parti.xyz ) is company developing better democracy platform. I'm very excited to meet all of you who has been worked for better democracy. :)

Thank you @rest! @richarddbartlett, @benjaminknight and I were lucky enough to meet

Ohyeon at Camp By The Crowd on Jeju Island. Please make yourself at home Ohyeon. Happy to answer any questions you may have. Looking forward to collaborating in future :)

Thanks, Harry. Are your internal discussions somewhere public? I'd be interested to compare notes. :-)

Not really. This is very much our problem. We have a 'google forum' (dare i say it) but have full intention to move into a much better space using platforms like Loomio etc.

Hi folks, I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Python/Django developer and one of the Loomio admins of Brazilian Citizenhood Movement Raiz www.raiz.org.br

I am here to share thougths and suggest API to integrate Loomio to our site. As I don't know Ruby/Rails, my contribution will be restricted to improve portuguese docs.

Health and freedom to you all!

Hi Josir! It's a neighbor from Rio (Copacabana) here! Maybe we know each other if you participated some day in OcupaRio, OcupaCâmara and/or numerous popular assemblies and rallies around our city since 2011. Anyway, if you're interested in direct democracy we, at least, have friends in common. Glad to see one more carioca in Loomio (our people must learn how to use this amazing tool instead of keep trying organize protests and decide important issues via facebook). Looking forward to properly dig into your website as soon as possible (as an independent activist the making of a political party in Brazil doesn't seems to be a good idea, even with all your good projects; but as a carioca its understandable to see people who wants to participate in politics avoiding so many anachronistic parties; anyway congrats for the initiative). If you want you can also see my portfolio as an author at arenato.com. See you!

Hi Renato. I know your work! Your ebook is on my "virtual desk" to be read :)

Probably we've already met on those rallies and had shared the same gas bombs smoke :))

We are half movement/half political party and we want to aggregate those who don't want/believe on politic parties but has common beliefs mainly on the ecological and direct democracy matters. People can participate and vote and don't need to be "filiated".

We are great experiment on Direct Democracy. All our decision-making are made on Loomio!

This thursday we will meet on the Journalists Syndicate here in Rio. Be welcome to meet us and know our project.

Health and freedom!

Nice to know it all, Josir! Still reading the texts on Raiz and so far it's very interesting! Take a look at the system which some independent activists and others were/are trying to make in Rio's streets and plazas: AutoGov and some of its resources at OpenSource. Believe it or not, all what you'll see, including the spreadsheets and the legal procedures as OSCIP (the web portal isn't ready to be launched yet), still doesn't make much sense while it's only me working on it (our fellow Cariocas appears to be lost when we talk about online popular organization outside facebook -- can't wait for it to be changed). So, feel free to do what you want with the material (your party must jump on it; some already are).

Even though the tear gas in Rio are now mostly expired :P after 5 years it was time to come back home :) in order to keep independence from the politicians trying to surround me (and our people stop to centralize around/ be independent from me).

Anyway, as it's an area specific for introductions, please take note of my e-mail address: info@arenato.com

Also please tell me (via e-mail) the time of your meeting next Thursday; maybe will be there to personally know its members and certainly wait for nice conversations, specially about the 'progressive consensus as it is (very well) described in the 7 pages 'guide'; affiliate never -- it's Brazil, bro, and my focus is on a city (any city) level connected to the world.

And as you expressed interest, you'll receive an invitation to collaborate in the ongoing process of Loomios' translation to Portuguese-BR (you have to get a free account in Transifex; and you can already join the Loomio Translation Community); improvements are very welcome.

Hugs!

A big warm welcome to our newest community members!

Welcome @toupeira!

I'm a software developer interested in collaborative decision-making software like Loomio and DemocracyOS

Welcome @jordankamin!

Hi! I'm Jordan and I'm a teacher and rails developer. I've been teaching at Dev Bootcamp San Francisco for the last year or so. I heard about Loomio from a group of students who contributed to Loomio as their final project, which was really cool! I'd love to contribute some features and work with the community to help improve loomio.

@jameskiesel, maybe you and Jordan should have a chat sometime soon (if you haven't already).

Thank you both for providing us with introductions! Please make yourselves at home :smiley:

Hey @jordankamin, more than happy to have a chat about how best to contribute! Feel free to reach out to me at james@loomio.org

Thanks @hannahsalmon, I'd like to expand a bit on my terse introduction which I didn't realize was going to be posted here :grin:

I hail from Switzerland and make my living as a software developer and sysadmin, but I've also long had an interest in collaborative decision-making, fueled initially by youthful daydreams about anarchism, then by my experiences working at a Swiss open participation startup, and lately more by things like Agile project management and forms of peer governance. My current job is with a developer agency and we've been trying out Agile methods for doing collaborative company development (similar in concept as Loomio's Away Days), which got me back to kicking around an old idea I've had for something very much like Loomio. After some research I quickly discovered this active community, and now I'm glad I can just contribute here instead of starting my own project that won't go anywhere :sweat_smile:

Something else I was wondering, our company recently joined forces with Impact Hub and we founded a new co-working space in Zurich together, and they seem to have very similar goals as the Enspiral Network (spreading collaboration and social entrepreneurship). I'm sure you're aware of their spaces, but have you ever talked with them about working together more closely on other projects? If you're interested I'd be glad to ask around for a good contact person.

Haha it almost sounds like you are a Swiss version of me!! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Let me know if you'd like to get on a call sometime: rich@loomio.org

lol Swiss is now officially Ⓐ part of my personal anarcho-map : ) welcome, bros.

@renato actually I recently learned that after the First International in Paris, the anarchist groups met up in a small Swiss village for the First Anarchist International ;-)

A Swiss friend searched for two weeks and didn’t find a documentary on the First International Anarchist : ( Then she was invited to this conversation, but she said that has nothing to collaborate and her family business is already consensual : D So, my explanation is that the reason why her country is already under Direct Democracy is because its people live freedom in the present rather than talk about its pass. Too simplistic explanation, but her country mixed economy (participatory and with strong governmental regulations) is so far advanced in comparison with the rest of the world that it’s hard to accept that other countries can’t do the same. Instead, there is a widespread misconception that Swiss is some sort of free market economic capitalist paradise lol for those who don’t read even a WikiPedia page.

@renato there's also this widespread misconception (especially among the Swiss themselves) that Switzerland has "achieved" direct democracy, but our system is still very much a representative one at its core ;-)

You’re right! According to WikiPedia itself, the Swiss confederation is a semi-direct democracy (representative democracy with strong instruments of direct democracy). Not there yet ; )

@toupeira I am a Loomio team member based in the US (Providence, RI) and I will be in Zurich briefly next week on Monday 15 March. Are you around for coffee? Cheers, MJ

@mjkaplan very cool, we can meetup in the early evening at Impact Hub Colab if you like! Is that Monday 14 March or Tuesday 15 March? ;-) You can reach me at mak@panter.ch

@toupeira Hi Markus. I'm only in Zurich briefly tomorrow (Monday) and could meet in the morning or lunch but then will be heading out. It'd be great to meet if you're free.

Welcome to the Loomio community group @scott21!

Care to provide us with an introduction?

A big warm welcome to our newest community member @simonmisanthrope!

Hi I'm with a London citizens' platform called Take Back the City. I'm pushing for us to start using Loomio to organise better, so now I'm here myself trying to get to grips with it.

Sorry about the delay, Simon! Thanks very much for providing us with an introduction. Please make yourself at home and let us know if we can answer any questions :smiley:

Thanks @hannahsalmon! At first i was looking for more details on the price plans, but i was told on Twitter that a new Price Plan page is coming.

Now I'm trying to work out how i can make my subgroups open to all members (but only members), and threads private. It seems like i can only have private threads in subgroups members must request to join, or public threads in open subgroups. What am i missing? :)

Thanks for the warm welcome, really looking forward to learning more!

Hi Simon. Unfortunately you can't make a subgroup immediately accessible to parent group members (i.e. open to join). However, you can share the subgroup's shareable invitation link (accessible from the Invite People form) in the parent group and encourage people to use it. Clicking the link will give them immediate access to the subgroup.

Thanks, I'll give that a try!

Welcome to the Loomio community group @lisasmith!

I am a community engagement coordinator, in Pocatello Idaho, who is using Loomio to facilitate collective action without the need for constant face-to-face meetings with multiple volunteer groups.

Thank you for providing us with an introduction! Great to have you here :smiley:

Welcome @daniellewis! Thanks very much for providing us with an introduction:

I like to buy broken things, fix them and give them away. Understanding how things tick is my best.

Great to have you here! Please make yourself at home :smiley:

Cheers @hannahsalmon :) Great to be here. Its like landing at a new knowledge treasure island. so many threads to dig into :books: :sweat_smile:

A big warm welcome to our newest community member, @apolinario!

Would you care to provide us with a brief introduction? We'd love to hear what brought you to the Loomio Community group!

Hello everyone!
It takes ages to scroll down here. Sorting comments new to old would be nice, along with a commenting field not affected by zillions of comments :)

As for the introduction... I've joined the Loomio community to see how it's working.
I am writing my Master thesis and want to design a web tool that can help collaborative standard development. Loomio features overlap to a large degree (proposals, voting) so it seems a really good place to start :)

A big warm welcome to our newest community member, @ignaciomq!

Would you care to introduce yourself to the group?

Hi All,

Thanks for that warm welcome. I only recently started using Loomio and I only have but positive feelings. I wish there was also an Android app but that's been explained already. I have read though that Chrome has enabled push notifications in the browser while running in the background on your phone. Would that something you will consider? :) Thanks a lot.

Regarding push notifications, here's a relevant comment by Loomio developer James Kiesel in another thread about four months ago. If you have time to check out that (rather complex) discussion, please feel free to follow up there! :)

Hi @danh1 welcome to the Loomio Community! Would you like to introduce yourself to the group?

Also, welcome @camfindlay1 ! want to tell us a little bit about yourself?

Hi there, and thanks @natilombardo

I'm the Developer Advocate and Community Manager at SilverStripe. I'm interested in communities as stores of tacit knowledge and informal community relationships with other organisations (be them commercial or public sector) and how the interaction at the boundaries of those spaces play out practically. I'm also a big Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) geek and spoke on the Open Government panel last year at the Open Source Open Society conference.

I started playing with Loomio a long time ago when it was an internal beta at Ensprial and have followed it's progress ever since.

We used Loomio to decide if we might adopt Loomio with the SilverStripe community about 18 months ago. We didn't adopt due to a few features we needed, however seems these have now been added. I may well revisit this.

I'm also currently on 3 months secondment to the New Zealand Open Data Programme, and presently using Loomio to run a participative public consultation on what will be the first public policy on FOSS licensing and release. You can check this out at https://www.loomio.org/g/NohQxyr9/nzgoal-software-extension-discussion-of-draft

Thanks for the kind welcome :smiley:

Greeting @natilombardo and community!

Regardless of the size and scope of an entity, discussions and decisions are an integral party of any organization. I represent a non-profit seeking to minimize face-to-face meetings and have stumbled upon Loomio while in search of an online, easy to use tool focused on group-based decision making. Cheers to all those involved in creating just such a tool!

Hi @bzzrd Welcome to the group! Would you care to introduce yourself to the team?

Hi @natilombardo, thanks for the welcome,

I'm a participant from the french movement Nuit Debout in Lyon.
We are interested in finding new ways of empowering the people for politic decisions.
Loomio seems great for such tasks (at least for small groups), and is currently deployed on one of our server for testing.

Cheers

Welcome @paulfree ! Would you like to introduce yourself to the rest of the group?

Hi @paulfree, would you mind if we closed your proposal and moved it to it's own thread? This thread is specifically set up so that people can introduce themselves and get to know the community.

ups, I've tryed to introduce myself but somehow just made a poposal. Luckily loomio was storing it so I just need to press the publish button instead of rewriting.

Hello @natilombardo (we've met during the d-cent)
happy to be on board and thy for welcoming! :-)

I'm Paul and working at the moment on several projects, all connected to the idea of gifteconomy and collaboration.
My main focus at this very moment is on yunity.org
Yunity for the first release will be an opensorce online plattform all mainly all about uncodicional sharing. Beside the online work yunity is aswell an offline comunity which cames out of the movement of foodsharing, which has sofar 100.000 members.
With yunity we want to provide out network foodsharing with a new plattform to turn this movment international.

I'm highly interested in creating social architecture which creates a culture to allow effectively colaboration in agile selforganized networks. To open up the silos a lot of organisation are caged with the intetion of lifting each others ideas. In here I'm interested in online same as offline networks.
One of my intention is to connect with all the different projects working on same ideas. One outcome of my dream would be an opensource tool which provides agile network with any kind of tool is needed/helpfull to manage projects without the need of fixed structure but selforganized.
And in loomio I see as one of those groups working on tools helping people beeing selforganized. I would love to connect more to you guys and may aswell give you an inside about an desicion making system we're using.
It's called systemic consensus which when it comes to the voting process about giving feedback about the resistance.

I'm interested in developing decicion making process giving feedback about the main intention of a group, but still not overrunning single opinions/people.
If you have any papers about desicion making and the philosophy and so on that would be great fo me to read.

Aswell I would be interested in to meet you in person. I'm fulltime volunteer jumping around in eruope and living since 2014 free of money. If there's any interest in why and how I'm glad to chat.

Yeah I guess that's for the first enough textwall. Thx for reading until the end ^. Looking forward to get more in conntact with the loomio community.

lg Paul

My name is Lucas Tauil de Freitas, I’m a Brazilian living in Titirangi, westy Auckland, New Zealand.

A relationship builder and community weaver, I am truly interested in people and their stories.

By honoring people’s narratives and offering reciprocity, exposing my views and intentions, I‘ve learned that trust is the foundation of relationships and organizations.

This led me to gather a group of people I admire and trust on a collective we named Guilda. Spread around five continents, we are working on a circle of trust relationship visualization model with curation tools.

The prototype was named Entrust.
The purpose is to reduce the noise on communications within circles of trust. AS a first move we intend to help members of a community to reduce the amount of comms they get.

The idea is give people tools to sort their inflow of knowledge and content by choosing curators and topics they are interested in.

We want to allow people to manage what they watch and match it to their time availability.

We see this as a useful tool within a community and also for connecting likeminded communities.

Fifteen years ago overwhelmed by a wrong cancer diagnosis I left the newsrooms where I worked as a reporter and columnist to chase my dreams of being close to my family and sailing. This is how we got to New Zealand.

All this time exposed to nature and its season’s gave me intimacy to the elements, which became good insights on how the elements are strong metaphors for people’s temperaments.

I am also interested in how traditional communities’ dynamics and governance models can help healing our social fabric.

Please welcome our newest community group members!

@ronald1:

I am Nyombi Ronald, am 22 yrs, I work at killadesigns as a Javascript Full Stack Developer

@brianburt1:

we're big fans of modern thinking about decision making!

@stevenwatson:

Loomio newb, educationist. Wanting to experiment with Loomio in schools. Currently experimenting with Loomio in political group, campaign group and movement building. Interested in use of Loomio research.

Please make yourselves at home :)

Welcome @ambadyanands!

My full name is Ambady Anand S and I'm an active user of Loomio. The main purpose of joining this community is to provide my suggestions and feedback on Loomio. :)

I see you've started a discussion about features in the Product Development group! Thanks very much for your feedback - always appreciated :)

Please welcome the newest member of our community @danielbingham

HI! I'm a software engineer and cooperative activist based in Bloomington, IN. I'm on the board of a low income housing cooperative (Bloomington Cooperative Living) that is considering using Loomio to aid in decision making. I'm also involved in the local grocery cooperative (Bloomingfoods), a municipal level task force on innovating around civic engagement (I'm a co-chair), and several food and sustainability based non-profit organizations. I'm interested in the potential Loomio has as an organizing tool that can help all of these organizations. I'm a language agnostic developer with over 6 years of experience in the industry -- my last position was as a senior developer at Ceros, writing front end javascript for a browser based design studio. I'm potentially interested in contributing to Loomio's development and helping to design some features I'd like to see in Loomio that I think would greatly expand its usefulness as a development tool!

Always happy to welcome a fellow dev to the community. :smiley:

@danielbingham Welcome! My nam is MJ Kaplan and I'm a Loomio members based in Providence, RI and working with a bunch of coops using Loomio. I'd be happy to connect by phone, Skype etc. to answer any questions you have about Loomio and support you in any way. Just reach out if/when you'd like. mj@Loomio.org

@flaviatavares Welcome! Do you care to introduce yourself to the group?

Hello!
I'm brazilian, but living in France since 2002. Sorry about my poor English, I hope it's understandable.
In France, I direct a little documentary film festival (www.fide.lesimpatientes.org) with a volunteer staff. I'm the "geeker" of the group, always finding new tools to communicate and work together (like Asana.com) and scaring the others! :smiley:
I think Loomio will be one of my favourite tools soon!

But I came here because, with a group of brazilian women, we are creating a project about woman presence in media. In only one day we were 104 in many parts of the world so we really needed to find a tool to communicate and don't loose information.

I also organize free courses to explain to volunteers how to use some tools to collaborate and Loomio will certainly be in the next ones.

If I can help with anything to help to develop or spread, just let me know. :-)

:clap:

also brasileiro here!

@georgimavrov Welcome! Want to introduce yourself to the team?

@jamesmukoma @michaelowenliston @maximecerutti Welcome to the Loomio Community! Does any of you want to introduce yourself?

@victorvorski @rudolfo Welcome to this group! care to introduce yourself to the community?

Hey, I found out about Loomio through an Occupy/M15 related blog post and through the p2p foundation's blog and wiki.

I've been a software developer for a while and have always been interested in free/open source, I've blogged about programming and open source for a long time as well (sourcecontribute.com and neverfriday.com) and am very interested in promoting Loomio and other p2p tools to organizations, nonprofits and charities in Canada.

Welcome @karlleonard and thanks for your help! you can introduce yourself to the community here and I'll also like to invite you to our Translation subgroup (to get there just click on the link)

Welcome @jesusramirez1 Would you like to introduce yourself to this community? Also, I would like to invite you to join our Comunidad en Español group. :)

Hello, I seek comrades who have experience with Loomio for deliberating conversations, from open discussions to taking action, within an growing interest area known as "Open Government". Let me know.
Best, Vic Desotelle
OpenGovRadio.com

@camfindlay1 ^{^} may interest :)

@opengovradio hi... what are you proposing here? :smiley:

Open Government is a movement that is becoming a small industry. It is made up of folks who are working to move the decision making system from command and control (which is what our so called democratic system abides by) to shared dialogue and collaborative design .. There are many nuances to this; truly and emerging skill and art form to bring people together beyond 3 minute presentations in front of a local city council, all of whom have mostly decided their position on a topic and can't wait just to get through the (so called) whining and bitching of citizens coming to the podium to speak. The method we default to continues to shock me, and yet most have no idea there is another better way; one that is more inherent to our human(e)ness. Have I started to answer your question? VicDesotelle@gmail.com VicDesotelle.com

@opengovradio preaching to the converted here :smiley:

"I seek comrades who have experience with Loomio for deliberating conversations"

What are you seeking them for? Are you looking for help on a project or initiative making use of this tool? Need examples of Loomio being used for putting into practice the principles of Open Government?

What is your quest? :star:

this is a forced conversation
i will look elsewhere
vic

Welcome to the Loomio group @midiberry @heathersutton @sreeharsha @marcelokurashima @brentdixon ! Want to introduce yourself to the community here?

Thanks for the warm welcome. I'll write a short introduction later this week. :smiley:

I'm Brazilian, 33 years old, married to Juliana and my life story is a little exotic. When I turned 18, instead of going to college, I decided to live in a Buddhist temple (chagdud.org). Where I was able to learn meditation and traditional Tibetan painting and sculpture. After 4 wonderful years living there, I felt like it was time to go back to school. In 2014, i graduated in architecture and urbanism at USP, Brazil's most prestigious University. Shortly after graduating, I left my job and went in a 6 months meditation retreat, after that I was unable to relate to the architect work and to the profit driven economical model that we live. After a lot of studying and research, I was luck enough to read about en.spiral and many other people who are really "turning work into a offering" towards a better future. Last week, I read about the Edmund Hillary Fellowship, do you guys recommend the program?

Nice to have you here, Marcelo. I don't know anything about the Edmund Hilary Fellowship; if you like I could ask around about it. Are you thinking of applying?

Yes, I'm thinking about it. It seems like a good opportunity. I came to live close to my parents for the last year, because both of them were diagnosed with cancer. Now that they are healed and back to their routines, I'm looking for a good project to engage.

Thanks, Nati. I'm Welsh in origin, brought up in England, Corsican by adoption and currently live in Southern California. I've worn many hats, among which community youth work, international development, organizational transformation, planetary grid work and writing historical fiction have all helped illuminate a nomadic path of heart. I'm currently helping set up The Gene Keys Society, based on Richard Rudd's beautiful Gene Keys teachings, which blend ancient esoteric wisdom with modern scientific discoveries. (genekeys.com). We/re experimenting with using Loomio as a group decision making tool, to help involve members around the world in co-creating our Society website. And, based on our experience, we may adopt it as part of our core governance mechanisms when we open the Society for membership late this year.

Welcome @ritapatriziacaltav @sarajoehnk @johnrhoads to our Community group! Do you want to introduce yourselves to the group here?

I am John Rhoads, a musician, egalitarian and structuralist from a Peter Joseph perspective. I also am a member of the Democracy at Work organization which is now using Loomio and a big fan of Richard Wolff. In fact, it was d@w that led me to Loomio and must say this is a perfect fit to my ideas about "direct democracy". I am new to the Loomio environment and look forward to knowing it better and making good use of it.

Welcome @johnrhoads. I'm with the Loomio team in Providence, RI - feel free tor each out anytime. Cheers, MJ

Welcome to the Loomio community @lloyddavis @samyohannes @romain48 @melissathai @michaelnall ! Want to give a brief intro about yourself to the group?

Hello people of Loomio,
my name is Samuele Bozzoni from Pavia (Italy) I studied Economics / Labour relations in my master degree and now I m trying to get a second one in Society and local development!
I work in Milano at the regional office of the main cooperative union in Italy (Confcooperative)... I really changed a lot of job in past years in different kind of companies also with one year of community service at the local Caritas in my homecity.
In any case the past is not so important for me: I want to do more and better helping people and communities to improve quality of their lifes :smiley:
I m interested in partecipatoy democracy design, internet ownership and (offcourse) plattform cooperativism and every form of collective entrepreneurship :heart:
I feel me so happy to have the opportunity to discover Loomio and people with I can share some good purpose and plan about future!

Samuele
@samuelebozzoni

Co-coiner of the word "panarchy." Futurist on politics, economics, complex systems, networks, cooperation, & commons. Father, husband, speaker, writer, lego community leader, drummer, musician, programmer, and science fiction & fantasy fan. Online writings are at https://medium.com/@paulbhartzog.

Welcome @xavierboto @victorpereira @robvandenbrand @jeremyboom @peter0317 @chenhui to our Loomio community group! Want to introduce yourself to the community?

Hi
Here is korea, south
Currently Presidential Crisis..

Dear people of Loomio,

I am happy to be here!

I have come across Loomio through Enspiral and took part in the Open Enspiral workshop in Amsterdam in October ’16.

I currently live in the Netherlands where I give trainings in lean office concepts, meaning how to be personally and collectively productive with the least amount of waste and the maximum value for customers. Example: I teach teams how to setup and use Inbox Zero in their email.

I am also part of Structure & Process, an organisational development company. Our core activities are consulting on Holacracy and Teal and organising gatherings for our expanding, mostly Central European, community of colleagues/clients.

Hi, nice to me her you everyone.
Really excited to watch around in here.

Hi Loomio! It's a privilege to be a part of this community. I'm grateful to Enspiral and Loomio for being so incredibly open. My name is Jeremy and I'm working on a social impact organization called weAdventure.org. Our mission is to make adventure tourism more ethical. We believe everyone should get a fair salary, but unfortunately in the tourism industry this is often not happening. We are building an adventure marketplace to democratize the adventure travel market and lower the barriers to entry. You can read more about us here: weAdventure.org/impact.

Welcome @icma @danieltgardonyi and @jens! Lovely to have you with us. Feel free to introduce yourselves in this thread…

@numericris Welcome! care to introduce yourself to this group? and I'll invite you to our translation community.

Hello there,
I am @aixaardin from Puerto Rico. Just starting with Loomio w/ a small grassroots commitee working with human rights. Glad to be here.

Hello everybody, Karim from Tunisia working in Digital marketing and social media, I'm conduct5ing a non-conference in Tunisia called BIL aimed to improve skills among young people.

Hey there folks.. I'm Daniel, a hungarian campaigner based in London, working towards a sustainable, livable world for all on planet Earth.. #Sustainability #NaturalSecurity #EnergyDemocracy #FoodSecurity #WaterSecurity #DirectDemocracy #Solidarity

와우! 이 커뮤니티에 함께 할 수 있게 되서 기뻐요~ 모두에게 감사합니다 :) 저는 영어를 잘하지 못하지만, 지금 처럼 번역기능에 기대어 꾸준히 함께 하겠어요~!! 앞으로가 기대됩니당 :):)

hello, loomio! I am hyunyoung from Busan, south korea. i met rose lu, Richard Dennis Bartlett and songyi lee may 21 at Bsalon. i want to know more this commnity loomio.
we talk about the living problem.....and i talk about feminisum....and technology.....

Hey everyone,

I’m very excited to be apart of this amazing group. I’m from Belize. Have any of you guys heard of it? I’m looking to implement this in my country as a political tool for change. The corruption is too high and the people don’t have a say in the decision making in the country. Right now I am testing the software as vigorously as possible and I have to see where changes can be made before going life. I am 24 years old, aspiring user experience engineer, and in love with open source and linux.

@edmundciego Hi. I've been to Belize! What a gorgeous country. I've just been chatting with a colleague in Quito who is also struggling with opportunities to use Loomio as tool for change.

Let me know if I can offer any support. I'm one of Loomio's team members based in the U.S.

Cheers,
MJ

Hello everyone, Magdalena here in Northern California 2+ hrs NNE of San Francisco. I bring a history that includes training in corporate culture change, consensus-building and strategic meeting facilitation. I live in one of many neighborhoods struggling to rebuild after the 2015 Valley Fire that has been acknowledged as the State's third most damaging wildfire in history.

Twenty of us (and we're working on bringing in another 20) have decided to rebuild as a village. With the help of the Sustainable Economies Law Center in Oakland we found lawyers and accountants who specialize in cooperative ventures. We've organized enough to be able to file our Limited Liability Company papers so that we can receive and disburse.funds to pay for the development process, and we have been working with one of the best land tenure consultants in the Bay Area to help us figure out how to keep the land permanently out of the speculative market. We're going through the process of establishing our core values. The whole process has been moving along as a constant juggle between the chicken and the egg ("which comes first?").

We know this neighborhood can't recover well without the rest of the area as well. I worked with fellow activists to establish a municipal advisory council last year so we could have a voice in how the county is working with the recovery process where we are, at the epicenter of the area affected by the wildfire. There's a long row ahead to hoe, but we figure now's the opportunity to create a fire-safe, water-wise, aging-in-place community infrastructure in collaborative relationship with our neighbors and our county.

As for myself, back to a more personal note, my parents were both diplomats, and I like to think I absorbed a lot of how inclusive they were of all the people we.met. Ive been a student of the World Friend, Adi Da Samraj, author of "'Not-Two' IS Peace" , published by the Dawn Horse Press, for a few decades. I have used Sococo,Trello and Open Space Technology with Google Sheets (to create a real-time agenda board) to plan, organize and implement a live conference for 13 people coming in from 3 different countries and 6 states in the USA.

I just met Nati and Richard, and I'm excited about meeting you all and learning about the new possibilities with Loomio.

Hi,
This is Eliot - just joined Loomio to help with two projects: Development of a new cooperative community, called Bright Village (bright-village.org), from the ashes of catastrophic wildfires here in Northern California last year. We hope to build homes for 40 people on 6 acres and are following a collaborative development process similar to the process used in Cohousing projects. Most of the members of the Bright Village are also active participants in the spiritual culture established by Adi Da Samraj (www.adidam.org) and provide support to the Mountain Of Attention meditation and retreat sanctuary across the road from the Village site. Our committment to using a collaborative development process is challenged by having members in diferent time zones, by needing to clearly codify core spiritual values in a usable way and by the complexity of the development process altogether.

The second project is related, but involves the broader community affected by the 2015 fire. As part of the overall recovery process we have established a new "Cobb Area Council" (cobbareacouncil.org) to bring together the very diverse neighbors affected by the fire. We have been advised that the damage to our community is comparable to that sustained by New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and that it will take many years for the new reality of our area to stabilize and its character become clear. The Cobb Area Council is a key community forum whereby this transformation will occur and we hope that using Loomio will help us engage the broadest range of community members in the redevelopment process.

My personal background is 10 years in Washington DC with the US govt (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration) doing sustainable development policy during the Clinton/Gore years, 3 years work on sustainable development strategies for the San Francisco Bay area and 10 years working on strategic planning at the County level in N. California. And 35 years as an active member of the Adidam spiritual community focusing on incarnating our sacred cooperative culture. Degree in anthropology from Harvard, interested in the core dynamics of collaboration, especially the spiritual implications and roots of our deep presumptions of being separate individuals at all!

Hi! Welcome to the Loomio Community. Sounds like you have really important work, thanks for sharing. I'd love to find out how Loomio works out for you when you've had some experience using it. Thanks again.

Hi this is Midi speaking as start-up Steward of the Gene Keys Society

http://society.genekeys.com.

The Gene Keys is a body of wisdom born in the third millennium that integrates ancient spiritual teachings with the new science of quantum physics, molecular biology and genetics - think I Ching meets DNA! - It provides people with a contemplative path to self illumination, community creation and philanthropic service.

We've been using Loomio for some time, first to provide a forum for the design and development of our website, which launched in mid-March. Then also (once the Society was legally registered) to be the place where our globally-based teams can meet and communicate and make decisions online.
Some of our more extraverted members struggle with Loomio. Writing in English which is our lingua franca is also a challenge for some English as second language members. Most love it and teams are becoming ever more comfortable in its use. We combine online dialogue and decisions with zoom online meetings.
We are excited by the introduction of the new decision making tools. We are just beginning to use them and thank Loomio hugely for them!
love to all :heart:

Oh wonderful that you appreciate the new tools. How do you find the new threaded comment feature (now it's working correctly)? Thanks for your patience with the introduction and bug squashing.

We're also considering a feature which would allow people to record a voice or video message, would that help your extraverted members?

Not keen still on threaded comment feature personally, but it is working better - thanks! Yes video could be much appreciated, Robert. I'll check with the group.

Hi. I am one organizer of the Network for a New Culture and hoping that my group will make use of Loomio. So far I like what I see and the added features such as the polling. I am only been using Loomio a few months and I am enjoying learning what it has to offer..

Hi,

I've been looking for a good open-source project to volunteer some code to. I don't know much about ruby, but Loomio seems like the best collaborative governance software out there.

I'd like to see a project like this utilizing a blockchain (ethereum?). It only makes sense that collaborative decisions don't get stored on a centralized server.

That's about all; see you on GitHub!

-Keith

Hi! I'm keen to see how I can help out with Loomio. A group I'm working with are planning on using it for decision making and I'm keen to see how I can possibly help improve the platform (for everyone and for them!). Are there some 'simple tasks' that are sitting around to get familiar with the code base, or any outstanding tasks at all that I could try to tackle to get a lay of the land?

Hi Ben, nice to have you in here. We develop the codebase on Github and that's where we keep track of issues and tasks. Have a look through there and see if there is anything that fits your skillset.

Do you speak a language other than Engish? We're always looking for translation support. Also we're keen to find people who want to work on the help documents, if you like explaining technology and function in a friendly but concise manner.

Hi, My name is Fabrice. I live in south-est of france and I animate a mountain bike association(ascvtt). We decided to move this year to Loomio to replace our mailing-list. Why? Because integrated collaboration tools are great, as well as mail notification and answering system. I'll be glad to contribute to enhance the tools by our feedback, and why not code contribution.

Hey, I'm Hugi. I've recently set up a custom Loomio install for our participatory event (and regional Nordic burn) The Borderland which we call Borderland Talk. I've been really impressed with how the Loomio team has answered issues on GitHub and have had fixes ready in a matter of days. Big up!

We're actually running our own branch of Loomio, and our own Loomio-deploy docker image, since we are planning to adapt some of the vocabulary and the proposal mechanisms to our circumstances. But it won't diverge too far, and most changes will be cosmetic, so I'll keep updating my merging new versions of the stable branch.

Hi I'm Caron @pcmcreative most places online :)

I'm EquityUK's Online Branch community moderator and committee chair.

All our democratic decisions are collectively made online. Our current digital home's coding is not compatible with the organisation new website so I am exploring the wilds of cyberspace in search of suitable solutions which engage members while conforming to the Rules and Standing Orders we are bound by. Loomio looks like a good decision making solution as a stand in for our Debating Chamber.

Hello waves

Hello Loomio

Among other things, I am currently the lead developer of Andor's Trail, a free software RPG for Android.
The game is developed by a small international team of volunteers doing this on our spare time, with no money involved (no donations or patreon), only love and passion.

We have a public forum, and used a private part of it & email for our team's communications. This quickly proved insufficient (have you tried walking a beginner through git by email when he doesn't even use the same OS as you?) , and after oh so many tests, we started using Slack. It was a revolution for us, and collaboration improved greatly.

Now, what slack lacks IMHO is a way to gather and organize opinions to make decisions. We are only a handful of people, yet it can be hard to reach a consensus. We're scattered around the globe, with busy lifes, so voice or video meetings aren't a viable option.

Enters loomio! I stumbled upon this by chance (reading the Wikipedia page about diaspora* IIRC), and found the open-source open-democracy philosophy really matched our own.
So we've been testing Loomio for about a week now, and one of the opened decisions to make is "Should we use loomio or stick to Slack?". Looking good so far and the Slack integration is a big plus for us.

I'll give more detailed feedback and ideas in a more suitable thread though.

Thank you for Loomio and for reading this!

Hi, I am Pierre-Marie from Paris, France.
I am recently involved with Extinction Rebellion (XR) and some other organisations.
Work with and as a community to change the world is quite a challenge. :laughing:
I just discovered Loomio. I am delighted and it looks like "The tool" to work on projects with groups and communities to discuss, decide, take actions and move on. Great !

Hi Pierre-Marie, Welcome to Loomio. We're glad you found us and excited for the important work you are doing with XR :-)