Introduce yourself to the Loomio Community

@ronanmchugh do you know @nicolaswormser ? he's also in Copenhagen! @sophiejerram and @noelia from our team will be visiting there very soon too.

Hi all, I'm Malcolm. I live in Wellington in a large community house. I spend quite a bit of my week working as a Business Analyst at a rather large financial institution (I know, not exactly Loomioish!). I tend to work on things like project management, process improvement, systems development etc. Things that might be handy for Loomio as it gets bigger...
As you can see between paid work and home, I have my feet in two very different camps! Anyway, I'm hoping I can lend some of my skills to the cause.

Hi i am Chris, I am from Greece. i live in mt. Pelion. I hope i can help as much as i can on Loomio because i think it is a great project and with future especially for groups and organizations which want to make collective-decisions.

Hey @ronanmchugh, we need to catch up one of these days for sure. I'm looking for connections here, and I'd be more than happy to introduce you to the project. Are you keen to meet up next week? @sophiejerram is going to be around from wednesday and @noelia from Sunday, so that sounds like a perfect timing. Let me know ([email protected] or here).

Hey @nicolaswormser & @alannakrause, thanks for the heads up. Nicholas, yeah I'd be up for meeting. When are you planning to meet with the Kiwis? I'm time poor at the moment due to work and baby, but I'd like to be able to contribute a little bit now and then.

yes lets catch up! it would be really cool! @nicolaswormser @ronanmchugh :)

Hi all! My name's Tom, as you can see :-)

I come from a background of less-heirarchical-activism, and I work with Aptivate - http://aptivate.org - a non-profit tech organisation working in international development, that runs by consensus, based in the UK.

As it happens, we've been making our own online consensus decision making & tracking tool called Econsensus - http://econsensus.org - which is somewhere behind Loomio in terms of its development stage - and so we're excited to hear both about this project and Loomio as an organisation! I had the great pleasure of speaking to Ben and Vivien last week, and I'm looking forward to continuing to work out how we can collaborate and what we have to share with one-another, both in terms of online collaboration tools and as software coop organisations (coop-ish in our case). We seem to share a lot of practices, ideas and ideals.

I'm also involved with an activist-tech network in the UK and I've been making people in the UK aware of both projects, and there's definitely interest.

At Aptivate we're already learning a lot from seeing what you've accomplished with Loomio, and we think we have some suggestions from our own experience, and I hope we have a lot of discussions in the future about all this good stuff. Maybe someone can suggest an appropriate way for us to start asking questions and suggesting things without drowning people in rambling :-)

I look forward to collaborating with you all!

cheers,
Tom.

Hi all,

It has been great reading through all the introductions.

I echoe the statement by @benjaminknightloom "When the Occupy movement rolled around in 2011 I got deeply caught up in it, and had a first taste of collective decision-making on a scale I'd never even thought possible."

After the wave of Occupy receded I went searching for wisdom from the last rising of the social movement in the 60's and 70's. That search has led me to living/working/playing at Commonground Co-operative. A Co-operative Social Enterprise that was set up in 1984 in Australia. I am learning lots from the collaborative process they have built up over the years here and am looking forward to amplifying them in the near future.

http://www.groupwork.com.au/commonground

We offer Collaborative management and facilitation training through the Groupwork Institute.

http://www.groupwork.com.au

We run the Commonground Social Change Festival.

http://www.commongroundfestival.org.au/

We also have a conference centre we rent out at subsidised rates for social change organisations and a nice big market garden.

I am also Co-founder of Real Democracy Australia.

http://realdemocracyaustralia.org/

And part of the Stand In My Shoes empathy movement. http://standinmyshoes.com/

We live in exciting times and I am so happy that things like Loomio now exist!

Please connect with me on Twitter and Facebook.
https://twitter.com/carlscrase
https://www.facebook.com/carl.scrase

Hi folks, my name's Rich, I'm one of the Loomio Co-op members. My work here sits across design, code development, customer support, and communications.

I am passionate about the potential for disruptive positive social change that results when open source communication technology is deployed on a massive scale. In addition to this software project, I pursue this interest through DIY hardware (e.g.), community organising and activism around digital rights.

Hi my name is Raphaël, president of the association OpenMandriva.
Loomio is a great tool that help us taking decision, as we never can meet together (people from all over the World, from Brazil to New Zealand :)