Introduce yourself to the Loomio Community

Welcome new community members!

@arasbm

Hi, I live in British Columbia, Canada. I am interested in designing interfaces that can help communities make decision, and this seems to be the main mission of Loomio. So I like to try it out and see if I can participate.

@ethanwinn

Hi, I’m a member of the CoLab tech coop, and we’ve been using Loomio for board discussions and talking about our own projects to support decentralized, democratic teams working for change. As I understand te impact Loomio can have…for progressive group organizing, for politics, for open source software development…I’m excited and would like to be more involved.

Welcome @elaineclermont, great to have you hear and thank you for your brilliant exciting introduction!

“Who I am and why I want to join the group.”

I don’t know who I am with respect to you, to me, I’m a mom of a 14 year old, an activist since the moment she was born, a thinker since birth, an optimist to put nearly any pessimist to rest comfortably in a bed they can understand, an artist, a poet, a writer, learned how to play on the internet in the 70s, a convicted felon - they didn’t like my idea, said it was a crime, who knew?! …. so, yeah, just your typical #SuburbanSoccerMom (except she’s a swimmer now) gone rogue just trying to breathe on planet earth.

why, because … one, “loomio” makes me think of “loom” which makes me think of weaving, which makes me think of fabric, as in the “fabric of our society.” two, because Sea loves it so much and I like talking to Sea here. three, because I believe in the energy Loomio is presenting here for people to make decisions. It is very neutral to allow things to be just seen as it is, and I don’t mind beta testing if it helps progress good ideas. whether I spend my time here or on myspace or on some other random group, this one seems to be the most interesting one I’ve experienced in a long time. thank you for creating it and being brilliant. =)

@elaineclermont lovely.

Yes, loomio has that 'feel' about it. Well done loomio people.

Please welcome out newest community members! Great to have you here!

@kyleeastrobox

Local Wellingtonian who is very interested in open source and transparent technology. I’ve been using Loomio in beta mode for a couple of years for Kiwiburn, and as such I’m quite invested in the direction Loomio takes :)

@patricia23, would you be interested in telling us a little about yourself?

Welcome to the Loomio community @jansavinc - great to have you here! Please let us know if we can clarify anything :)

Hi, I’m a member of the Edinburgh Student Housing Co-operative and we are using Loomio to coordinate decision-making. There are some features that are unclear to me, and I would like to get involved; perhaps at a later date, I could help with development as well

Thank you @hannahsalmon !
I'll get back with some questions in the following days.

In the meantime - this is a great platform, good work everyone! It's made our organising much easier, and we're excited to see what direction it takes.

Hello community, please welcome our new members!

@balasankarchelamat

I am a regular user of Loomio and would like to join the discussions

@boazchen

shared the panel with Ben at PDF
http://personaldemocracy.com/boaz-chen

Welcome to the Loomio community @daniellemacaulay! Great to have you here! Thanks for telling us a little bit about why you were interested in joining this community:

Product Manager hoping to use Loomio to make better decisions as a team.

Please let us know if you have any questions :)

So many wonderful new community members! Welcome! Welcome!

Welcome Jacob Bloom!

I just graduated college in May, and in my free time am a Student Union and Green Party organizer. I am currently attempting to start my own marketing, sales and consulting firm, and just got hired to set up a sales department at a local marketing firm. I want to teach businesses and leaders how to be successful by doing good.
At school I majored in Communication and double minored in Political Science and Religious Studies. I specialize in brand development, brand integrity, strategy, organizational theory, campaign management, field coordination, political psychology, grassroots organizing, lobbying, canvassing, public relations, sales, rhetoric and argument, public speaking, and setting up sales departments.
I found out about loomio and cobudget at the Participatory Budgeting conference in Oakland this weekend, where I saw a presentation and met Alanna Krause. Loomio looks amazing. A fellow collaborator just requested to start an account for our efforts and I am eager to get using it. Also I would love to see if I can help spread the word about loomio and so was directed to get active with this group.

Welcome Scott Ludvigson!

Hi, I’m Scott, I’m studying electronic and computer systems at Victoria University, and I want to join the Loomio community because I’m interested in the potential it has for changing the way we, as members of various communities, voice our opinions and make decisions. I would be happy to contribute to this community if i can.

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

Welcome @chipdeubner!

I’ve been following and using the project for a while now, and pushed to implement the software at my workplace. Would love to take a bigger role in Loomio’s future.

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

Welcome to our newest community members!

@jessicaducey

I’m an Enspiral contributor based in Wellington, NZ. I’m keen to learn more about how Loomio operates and eventually participate in a broader way.

@sarkadinagymarton

would like to explore

@carmegarcia, care to tell us a little about yourself and why you were interested in joining the Loomio community?

Hola buenos dias, ne llamo carmen garcia tengi 49 años y empiezo a utilizar loomio porque es una herramienta muy util para nuestro proyecto de organizacion politica PODEMOS, con esta herramienta podemos hacer participe a toda la cuidadania de cualquier decision que se tome .
Gracias por aceptarme, un saludo

Welcome @lagoleon! Would you be interested in providing us with a little information about yourself? :)

Welcome @madsringblom! Thank you very much for providing us with an introduction:

Member of Board at danish political party ‘The Alternative’.

Responsible for our Political Labs and working together with swedish ‘Samutveckling’ on adapting Loomio as digital platform allowing us to involve people in the ongoing development of our political program.

Great to have your voice in here :)

Welcome @mikeshaw! Care to introduce yourself - we would love to hear it!

Hello! I'm Mike, I'm a co-operative activist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. I was active in setting up the Edinburgh Student Housing Co-operative and Students for Cooperation. I like graphic design.

Thanks @hannahsalmon :)

As additional background info I can tell that I work as a UX-/UserResearch consultant and have spend a lot of time on digital design in the public sector.

I'm very excited to see how initiatives, trying to use digital solution to unleash group creativity or knowledge, are popping up all over the world. (A big thumbs up to Loomio for beeing one of the most exciting :)

I'm also very interested in getting in touch with other people from (or living in) Denmark who are interested in Loomio or the area of digital democracy or community.

Welcome to the Loomio Community @joshua1! Care to provide us with a little introduction? :)

Welcome @matt11! Care to tell us a little about yourself?

Hello @waelalsaad! Welcome the Loomio Community, and thank you so much for providing us with such an amazing introduction!

Hi loomios
actually I was deep depressed the last days and finding loomio today gave meenergy to stand up and look forward.
Yes, my name is Arab; am Palestinian lived in Germany 17 years and returned home 2009. Since then I work within our family business now managing the wooden furniture factory.

To know abit who I am any my relation to Loomio; 2004 I’ve started advocating for global Palestine beyond borders ending my self putting up a vision for Global Brain Application.
I wish to follow my inner-callings and follow my dream is to build open source ecovillages for appropriate economy around the world which will connect the healing power of humanity and nature. What holds me back to do start working on my dreams is bit complicated ..

I am here to support loomio design and share some ideas I gained along the visions I have, like implementing open translation tools in the process to design a tool for global governance bond to patterlanguage and geographical layering of common decision topics.
I would be happy to join the translation group (?) to help setting up the Arabic version of loomio to build afterwords local loomio community in Palestine which will help spreading it ..

In Spirit and Love
Wael

I think it's quite likely that you will find people who share your vision in this group :)

I've just invited you into the translation group. We would love to support you to build a Loomio community in Palestine. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if we can do anything to help!

Hi y'all,

My name is Joshua, and I'm a sixth year undergraduate, professional non-profit digital marketer, and radical rabble rouser. I've worked in print and radio journalism, and love talking to people.

I'm a trained Authentic Relating Games facilitator, and I'm a deeply playful and lighthearted person. I also used to live in a student housing cooperative in Austin, Texas, which provided me with lots of opportunities to participate in meetings: some very well run, and others not so much.

I love traveling and meeting new people. My last trip took me across the southwest United States, and I would like to travel more internationally. Accordingly, I'm interested in using loomio as a tool to work with teammates while being a digital nomad.

I look forward to contributing to this project and watching it grow across the world!

Welcome to the community @jessicalee! Thanks so much for your kind words of support :)

I love Loomio! I’m an undocumented immigrant activist in the US.

Hey community! Please welcome our new members! Wow!

@luzmariacabralesll

Hola:

Soy coordinadora de un grupo de creación colectiva.

He creado un sub-grupo y deseo saber cómo se puede ver los propósitos de forma gráfica y el tiempo que lleva la discusión.

Un saludo,

LUZ

@tyler1

Consensus fan

@markwhite

We’re also a tech start-up coop.

@janrivers

Hi I’m Jan a Wellington Librarian. I’m really excited about the possibilities of Loomio in collaborative decision making and recently helped organise the Wgton conference Democracy, ethics and the public good.http://www.publicgood.org.nz/2014/08/07/is-the-quality-of-our-democracy-an-election-issue/.

Welcome! Welcome!

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.