Introduce yourself to the Loomio Community

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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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!

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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?