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After the above-mentioned two were starting a crowd-funding campaign for a multi-sharing tool, they met Alexander Piutti, who convinced them to leave the community building aspect behind and only concentrate on the core-element of their business: saving food on a bigger scale, which is including B2B-services: They are planning a proof of concept in Berlin, where they pick up food from farmer's and wholesale markets with trucks, bring it to a huge storage room and then deliver it to restaurants and supermarkets. Sharecy wants to use funds from crowdfunding campaigns, government grants and donations, to finance up the process of getting started. Currently it is in the state of getting the approval for a Non-Profit-Organization. In June Raphael explained how he saw the need for a diversified approach, that consists of a 'yunity movement' seperate from a professional 'yunity organization' in a long post.
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A lot of yuniteers are part of the foodsharing.de community themselves and all share the same motivation to combat food waste and waste in general. foodsharing.de is the origin of the yunity project and a great thing to build on: In Summer 2015 Raphael Fellmer made a video with a call for action to make foodsharing international and open source. Around 30 people followed the invitation and gathered in Italy at the WuppDays #1 to built a new foodsharing website that allows to extent the scope of sharing towards whatever people love to share in their lives - books, items, resources, skills...
Especially the some developers in yunity have a big affiliation to foodsharing, since they are also the ones taking care of the foodsharing.de code. Due to realizing that the envisioned yunity platform will probably not be able to fully replace foodsharing.de anytime soon, the these developers decided to dive into the code of the old software once again and document it on the foodsharing dev blog.
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