Introduce yourself to the Loomio Community

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 😃

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 😃

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

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 😃

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. 😃

@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! 😃
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. :-)

👏

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? 😃

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 😃

"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? ⭐

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. 😃

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.