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Valentin Thurn wrote and directed the 2010 docu-film 'Taste the Wast= e' which demonstrates the incredible scale of food waste. In the Winter= of 2012, Thurn founded 'foodsharing.de', a web-app to help people share th= eir surplus food.
Raphael Fellmer initiated the foodsaving movement 'Lebensmittel= retten' in Berlin in 2012 which organized the distribution of food that wou= ld have been thrown away by businesses, to individuals. This was arranged t= hrough a combination of online maps and spreadsheets which worked, but requ= ired a lot of maintenance and had its limits. Fellmer met Raphael Wintrich = and both dreamt of a world where everyone could share their skills uncondit= ionally and without money. Wintrich became actively involved, creating a '<= em>quick-and-dirty' web-app for sharing and saving= food, originally just for his home town of K=C3=B6ln. This grew into a lab= our of love with over 2000 hours of full-stack, solo-development until wint= er of 2012. (Raphael Wintrich, Raphael Fellmer and Martin = Schott left to right).
Fellmer realizing that the foodsaving movement was g= rowing ever larger convinced the board of the Foodsharing association (oper= ator of foodsharing.de) of the benefits in collaborating with lebensmittelr= etten.de. In the winter of 2014 both platforms merged under the name of 'fo= odsharing.de', using Wintrichs web-app. The movement sp= read across the German speaking countries (Germany, Switzerland and Austria= ) with over 100,000 registered users of the web-app and over 3,000,000 kilo= grams of food saved (as of 2015-01-09). Further information about the curre= nt foodsharing.de can be found on Wikipedia.
Fellmer, Wintrich and their friend Martin Schott discussed the p= ossibilities and practicalities of spreading foodsharing globally, then ext= ending the scope of the project beyond just food. It turned out that they w= eren't the only ones to think that was a good idea and when the call was se= nt out to start this new project - yunity - over 200 people applied f= or the first meeting (WuppDays) in Malo.
The first WuppDays were held in Malo, Italy kindly hosted by Isabella D.= B. in her family home. Over 30 attendees met together to set the foundation= s for the project. The vision and mission of the project were defined and i= t was decided to recode over refactoring the foodsharing.de code. Read = more about it in this blog post.
The second WuppDays were held in Mainz, Germany kindly hosted by the res= idents of Liebemenschhaus. Over 20 attendees - mostly those from the first = WuppDays - attended to continue the work. A super basic demonstration of so= me webapp features was made and clarification of feature terms was achieved= . Read more about it in this blog post.=
The third WuppDays were held in Chemnitz, Germany kindly hosted by the r= esidents of HB6. About 10 people attended, mostly active contributors and s= ome people active in foodsharing. A greater understanding of how foodshar= ing.de and yunity.org relate to each other was achieved and the whole w= ebsite was revised and translated into Deutsch. Read more about it in this blog post.
The fourth WuppDays were held again in Chemnitz, Germany but this time h= osted by the residents of the Kompott. Over thirty people attended includin= g many people new to the project. The first OpenWuppDay was held over the s= econd weekend where many interested people came to get a flavor of the proj= ect and meet the team members. A lot of work was done in transferring infor= mation onto the wiki and it was the initiation of the Translation Team.&nbs= p;Read more about it in this&nb= sp;blog post.
The fifth WuppDays were held in N=C3=BCrnberg thanks to Manuele Carlini, Kirstin S= iu, Laura and Pranav Salunke. Over twent= y attended, over the course of the two weeks. A lot of work was done with r= egards to the specification: assessing the current situation, considering w= here we want to be, etc. A process for online sys= temic consensus was launched and used to validate the logo. Wordpress w= as investigated as an alternative to October CMS and incorporation of new c= ontributors was discussed.
Thanks to the hospitality of the Meesteren Foundation and the Pootgebouw housing project, yunity finally manages to leave = Germany for the Netherlands. Working alongside United Earth an= d = Noomap was encouraging, inspiring and a lot of fun. The designers and d= evelopers began trying yunity Scrum to coordinate the wo= rk efforts on the application, the Sharavan side-project was initiated, T-s= hirts were up-cycled into yuni-T shirts, advances were made into securing p= ermanent WuppSpaces and much, much more.
We were kindly hosted by Seminarhaus am Michaelshof. We have = now started the =E2=80=98Scrum of Scrums= =E2=80=99; a sort of technical blog on our wiki which hopes to provide a wi= ndow into the current, technical state of the project. Furthermore we creat= ed the base for our very first conceptual video, which is already online. Lastly, the video shoot for our yunity-song = was performed by the Swing Boh=C3=A8me Orchestra, the lyrics were written b= y the multitalented Daniel Hughes.
/wiki/spaces/YUN/pages/16842759, joined = with the preparation of the undjetzt!? conference.= Important decisions took place during that time, e.g. the focus on the Karrot and the idea to restart development = on foodsharing.de.
The W= uppDays #9 in Kirchheim unter Teck began with the announcement of Raphael Fellmer and Martin Schott to start their own organization, sharecy. yuniteers were also present = at the foodsharing festival, the= climate camp, the degrowth conference and the new healing festival.
Following an invitation from Tilmann to enjoy saved food and drinks from a commerc=
ial music festival, the WuppBreak September 2016=
gathered around 30 yuniteers and interested people for over 3 weeks. D=
reaming and planning meetings about the yunity Tours took place, a mud oven was designed and built by Joachim Thome and generally the event helped to=
bound and grow the yunity family.
An intense weekend at the=
Hackathon Berlin kickstarted the development on foo=
dsharing.de. A self-organized free market in Berlin spread the=
idea of unconditional sharing to a broader public. Read more about this in=
the relevant heartbeat.
This time we have been hosted by a = ;Transition Town (TT) initiat= ive. Witzenhausen is little town pop= ular for being the first place in Germany to only/fully study ecological ag= riculture, which seems to have a great influence. Although the city is smal= l there are many initiatives doing social and commons work. It was a great opportunity to explore and open room= s for transparent communication and to encourage more people to get active.= The group of TT is looking for support to build a working team to maintain= the house. This includes practical work like repairing broken showers, but= also creating a team that is transparent and welcoming in its communicatio= n. The place is looking for people willing to contribute.
While at Witzenhausen, we got the offe= r to take over the old trainstation in Bad D=C3=BCrrenberg as the very firs= t WuppHaus. People got excited and immediately went there to find out how w= e could make use of this generous offer of Bernd= R=C3=BChl. For some months the building was populated with yuniteers a= nd also some locals ready to do some work to fix the house and create a fre= e and open space for people to experience the beauty of unconditional shari= ng: We had a time so great and productive over Christmas and NYE that we ca= lled it WuppDays in retrospect, we held a free market and had worksho= ps and seminars at the cold and roofless house.
Sadly, winter was cold and energy got = drained after a while. Fixing a roof, that is completely missing without us= ing money is a pretty difficult task and opinions concerning the scope and = sense behind the moneyfree approach differed more and more clearly over tim= e.
While some of us tried to make Bad D= =C3=BCrrenberg work according to their strict morals, others went South to = escape winter and experience different perspectives. Read the heartbeat of February 5th to get an overview of the topics of t= hat time.
In March 2017 a group of us gathered i= n Harzgerode to tackle the deep questions. Read the detailed m= inutes from this week of philosophical value to understand what we went= through to get to this conclusion:
The wh-y-unity meetings concluded with the participants agreeing, that y= unity is a network of subprojects and stopped being one project at= least half a year ago, when we decided to not further develop the yuni= ty platform (a big multisharing platform, that was the initial idea fo= r yunity) and instead focus our development resources on the foodsaving too= l and foodsharing.de.
This realization led to a severe clean-up of the yunity.org website to = make it not much more than a collection of links to the subprojects. The id= ea of general WuppDays is not really relevant anymore in this concept and w= as replaced by specialized meet-ups of the subprojects. All the issues we h= ad (use of money, use of proprietary software, personal involvement, radica= lity of approaches) were made issues of the subprojects and not of the comp= lete network: Not everybody has to agree to the solutions of one group. The= common denominator for the whole network still is the concept of unconditional sharing, but to which degree it is appli= ed and how strict people want to stick to it is up to the people working to= gether on a specific project.
With this new identity nothing stopped the people anymore, who were inte= rested in buying houses in Wurzen to make them into a WuppHouse. (Due to th= e controversy in the beginning, they later decided on a different name thou= gh.). The process of actually getting started still took quite som= e time, so that six months passed from the first tour of the houses in Janu= ary to the actual moving in in July. Homepage coming soon, for now check out th= e wikispace. Regular updates are also included in the heartb= eats, starting from the controversy in January to the actual house-rela= ted news in July to what people are up to inside the houses.
Another hackathon was held by the people involved in foodsavi= ng tool and foodsharing.de programming. For a more productive atmo= sphere and possible synergies the team of trustroots.org joined in a= s well. Read the invitation here and the co= rresponding retrospective heartbeat here.