Introduce yourself to the Loomio Community

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 😃
I m interested in partecipatoy democracy design, internet ownership and (offcourse) plattform cooperativism and every form of collective entrepreneurship ❤️
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 ❤️

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. 😆
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 :-)