The yunity heartbeat - what has each team done, what are they doing and what do they need help with.
WuppHouse BaDue.
As we already told you in the last heartbeat, we found a house!
The old train station in Bad Dürrenberg is now inhabited by yunity folk since almost three weeks. The mood goes up and down and people come and go, but there is progress after all:
- We have running water and flushable toilets
- We have DSL and a landline telephone connection
- We have two heatable rooms
- We already got rid of a lot of rubble
- We already talked to lots of people and found many who want to support us
- We have more tools, than fit into our cabinet (even though some are still missing)
- We have a post box
- We have started to set up wupphaus.yunity.org to have a specifically dedicated website
On top of that we had a talk with the mayor, who seems supportive, some other local politicians, entrepreneurs and press people and we even got featured in the local newspaper, with a big picture and all! 
Also, we are planning an event and a survey to include the local community of Bad Dürrenberg even more into what we are doing. We want to create something beneficial to everyone living there after all, and we don't want to be isolated in our building but truly be part of the city!
Still, there is a lot of love and work needed to make this dream come true and help is needed on every front! So if you'd like to lend a hand please do so, and rather sooner than later... 
In the meantime enjoy some impressions from the site and you'll see that we really need you! ^^
Foodsharing/-saving Worldwide.
Done
- Haifa, Ankara and Barcelona were added to our detailed collection of existing initatives
- More information on foodsharing in Russia was added there, too.
In Progress
- Tilmann just reached Lyon and is already networking with locals.
- Online research has provided us with info on existing initiatives in Lyon like Anciela, Zéro Déchets, Colibris and others.
- There is an event about creating a society without waste on December 1st and a meet-up of Disco Soupe activists on December 6th. We'll probably attend!
Challenges/help needed
- Aaaaalways looking for more info on existing initiatives, platforms and enthusiastic individuals! Don't be shy, approach us if you know something!
Foodsaving Tool.
Done
- Full translation support, now all pages can be translated (e.g. via Transifex)
- Restructure code components to represent the dependency tree more clearly
- Much more needed features: create a group, join a group, create a store and a basic user page
- Decision for now to just have a name field, not first & last name
In Progress
- Geographic map for stores and groups
- Edit text for stores and groups
- Chat support
- Small changes to the backend
Challenges/help needed
- General first user feedback is missing
- Feature planning for bigger changes that also involve backend coding
Translation.
Done
- Updated the translations of the sub projects on yunity.org
- German translation of the project identity article, which is now a blog post
- Transcription of Raphael's TEDx Talk has finally been reviewed and approved in Amara, thanks to Sara Brunacci.
In Progress
- Translation of Raphael's TEDx Talk in various languages (Italian by Sara Brunacci)
Challenges/help needed
- If anybody is looking for a English to German or - even better - French translation task: The guidelines subpage, would be nice to have not only in English...
Research.
In Progress
- Creating a survey to monitor the needs of the local people of Bad Dürrenberg, as well as their take on sharing.
Public Relations.
Done
- More updates via facebook, thanks to new admins taking action. A lot of positive feedback, mostly due to WuppHouse progress.
- Rundfunk Meissner radio interview about yunity with Philip Engelbutzeder. You can listen to it! (12 mins, German).
In Progress
- Still looking to implement alternative social media to not mainly use facebook. Currently looking more into wechange.de.
Challenges/help needed
- Reactivation of the reddit channel - please post relevant yunity content there so the crowd can push things up or down!
- People taking care of alternative social media channels like GNUsocial, wechange.de,...
- Enhancing the Facebook posting guidelines
About the heartbeat.
The heartbeat is a biweekly summary of what happens in yunity. It is meant to give an overview over our currents actions and topics.
When and how does it happen?
Every other weekend we collect information on a wiki page and publish it the following Monday as a wiki blog article.
Afterwards we add a nice abstract and share it on facebook.
Past heartbeats:
Blog Posts
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The heartbeat has moved to yunity.org
created by
May 17, 2017
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yunity heartbeat 2017-04-30
created by
May 02, 2017
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yunity heartbeat 2017-04-16
created by
Apr 16, 2017
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yunity heartbeat 2017-04-02
created by
Apr 03, 2017
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yunity heartbeat 2017-03-19
created by
Mar 20, 2017
How to contribute?
- You need to have a wiki account and editor rights. Ask us in #confluence on Slack if you need help with that.
- You find the template for the next heartbeat /wiki/spaces/ARCHIVE/pages/77299920.
- Edit it as you see fit and add everything you did, that you see relevant to yunity!
- Talk to us in #heartbeat on Slack about the content, the layout or any other heartbeat related issues and ideas!
The yunity heartbeat - what has each team done, what are they doing and what do they need help with.
WuppDays #12 Witzenhausen.
From around the 1st to the 15th of November we have been hosted by the lovely people of Transition Town Witzenhausen, who shared their beautiful Transition House in the heart of the city with us. Since these days are only almost over, some of us are still there and the retrospective just came into the process of being written, more details will follow in the next heartbeat! For those who cannot wait, there also is the blog post, that was already written, when the WuppDays #12 were still going on.
Just so much for now: We had an amazing time with old and new contributors, wupping happily and working in all the different fields that make up the diverse yunity project. One of the focus areas this time was finding and setting up a WuppHouse, and real success has been reached! Read more about our new permanent WuppSpace in the next chapter.
Apart from holding meetings about the WuppHouse, listening to scientific insights on the syscon paradox, writing and designing new promotion material (like a brochure about yunity - stay tuned!) and planning and carrying out rearrangements in the house, there - of course - was a lot of food saving, cooking, cuddling and general bonding going on. yunity already became a family months ago and it's amazing to still see it growing bigger and closer at the same time!
WuppHouse.
As you may know, we have been looking for a permanent WuppSpace more or less intensely for over half a year now. There have been multiple promising opportunities but so far nothing concrete came out of it. Well, that is until now... because now for the first time we have got a key in our hands! 
The abandoned train station in Bad Dürrenberg will become our first WuppHouse! A lot of work still needs to be done, but we are thrilled to get it started and a bunch of us are already on site and working on setting up the basics. For more info on this amazing new development visit the specifically created new wikispace covering everything Bad Dürrenberg-related: BADUE
There you can find e.g. immediate needs, worries and plannings and what kind of materials are mostly lacking at the moment.
We want to thank Bernd of the Gemeinschaftsstifter project for making this possible and promise to make the best use possible of this amazing gift!
Are you as excited about this opportunity as we are? Do you want to come by and help us? Construction skills would be amazing but every helping hand is welcome! Don't hesitate to contact us and stop by to see this dream come true and take part in realizing it! Most of the communication is happening in the dedicated Slack channel #wupphouse, but you can also reach us via email or by filling out the join the team form, which leads you to our discourse forum.
Apart from directly dirtying your hands you can also spread the word and maybe distribute our German brochure to people who are willing and able to help:
(Just click on it to get it in full size!)
So much for the highlights this time, read below what happened with regards to the other teams and topics:
Foodsaving Tool.
Challenges/help needed
- Translation support got slowed down due to imperfect tools to automatically extract text.
- Limited time/availability of all contributors
Foodsaving worldwide.
Done
The Slack channel is as lively as ever and a lot of important info is shared!
In Progress
The facebook group is steadily growing.
Challenges/help needed
To keep up the growth on facebook we need people to participate in publishing content there, too!
IT-Service.
Done
Research about open source groupware and wiki.
http://wikisuite.org/Software
First setup of the yunity contributors map: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/yunity-contributors-map_108382#4/55.45/10.37 (some people started sharing they current/future locations and their travel plans)
Challenges/help needed
- someone who likes to install wikisuite for testing purpose
- spreading the word about the contributors map in order to create a tool that is useful and helpful for a lot of people.
Community Relations.
Done
- sharing and reflecting circle about the working party in Witzenhausen, where we took a day to directly give something back to the people hosting us. (sry no meeting minutes so far)
- yunity workshop at the Utopikon Conference
In Progress
- yunity presentation in the Transition Town Haus Witzenhausen (17.11.2016, 20:00)
- collecting and sorting of photos, articles, essays, stories, pictures, etc. for a yunity-book/brochure
Challenges/help needed
please send anything that you have created for yunity and that you think suitable for a nice book/brochure to Philip Engelbutzeder