Welcome to the Wuppdays #12 in Witzenhausen. This time we're hosted by a Transition Town(TT) initiative. So it's a great place to network, learn from each other and support where we can.
Thinking of comingDo you want to join? We would like to have you here! But have a look into the following description to find out if these wuppdays and circumstances are of interest for interesting to you.
About the place:
The Transition House is located in Witzenhausen. A little town popular for having the first place in Germany to only/fully study ecological agriculture. Which seems to make have a great influence. Still while Although the city is small there are many initiatives doing social and commons work.
It's a great opportunity to explore and open rooms for transparent communication incl. and to encourage more people of to being active. The group of TT is looking for support in building to build a working team maintaining to maintain the house his incl. This includes practical work like repairing broken showers, but more even support in creating this team incl. also creating a team that is transparent and welcoming in its communication.
The place is looking for people taking commitmentwilling to contribute.
The Transition House
What is happening here?
It's like a platform developing transition. Internal like external. There's a meeting room in the first place primarily used as a open cafe, jamsessionscafé or for jam sessions, meetings, workshops etc.
Also It is also a great opportunity finding to find out what you/we have to offer and while hosting these events. There's a recurring repair cafe café in the hackingspacehacking space. A cooking team brings regular people together and provides food on a donation basis together.
There's a coworking co-working space, mainly used by ecobytes and transformap , an or a gallery for painting...etc.
rooms:
It has 4 four floors hosting a diverse spectrum of groups. Encouraging Engaging with the different groups, and finding out how we can support each other is more then appropriated.
sleeping
There are 3 three rooms which are used as sleeping spaces. There are ca. around 6 "normal" mattresses in at this moment, a couch to sleep on and some camping mattressmattresses. Beside that there's in the so called hackingspace floor a living room incl. with a sleeping couch to host 2-3 people in the so called hacking space floor. All in all it fits around ca. 15 unless we stack.
food:
There are some supermarkets around, with the dumpsters are filled from time to time filled dumpsters. Cooperation are . There is no existing cooperation up until now not existing. A There is a farmers market close by is also existing nearby, but we need to drive to get there. Can be by bike or car (which Hans-Christian Eick got offered). If someone likes to work with the initiative Solawi (community supported agriculture - CSA) that would be another possibility to get some left overs (everything biological.)
social:
Everyone I met sofar so far is really open and friendly. The place was very welcoming to me. Communication between those who are already longer involved contains from time to time some unsolved conflicts. ...but just like very often if nothing special, as people work with different workingstylesworking styles/opinions etc. longer together. Nothing special, but So there are some unfulfilled needs. I just bring it up to invite you supporting in solvingin case you are interested in contributing to the solving process.
Why to have the wuppdays here?
It's directly where There are a couple of initiatives working with here that have very similar aims like yunitygoals. Working for the commons. Every support we do here is supporting yunity even if it isn't directly supporting "our" group. It supports strengthening the network around common commons economy and local initiatives.
Also are here ecobytes Ecobytes and transformap are also located here. Both fitting very well into the intention connected to the idea of creating a multisharing multi-sharing online plattformplatform. Maxim from inventaire (book sharing), very enthusiastic about open data will be also be here as well.
What to do while the wuppdays?
Well it's wuppdays, so everyone should feel encouraged to do what you feel to dolike doing. When it's about housework we're in this moment creating a kanban, where we list the outstanding tasks nicely.
Already active projects/ideas part of yunity are:
- glocall yunity (discussing about concept and buidling webpagebuilding web page)
- foodsaving tool (continue to work on the foodsaving tool mainly by Tilmann)
- hosting events (ak asyl, küfa, yunity, freemarket, living and action spaces, desicion decision finding...etc. )
- communication within yunity (internal and external....incl. informationflowinformation flow, exclusion/inclusion, online tools...etc.)
- mapping
- wupphouse meetings
- dumpter diving
- cooking
- facilitation
- documantationdocumentation
- building a house team
- setting up foodsharing
- wildfood wild food picking
- ....and much more, if we do so
Frameworks
As an addition to this, two frameworks which came out of the meeting from 03.11.2016 with folks from TT. Normal people pay. With yunity it's different.
"Volunteering as donation"
"If you like to use money, donation is appreciated"
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This time the wuppdays contain 2 different timeframestime frames:
The first one is fixed and:
When: now until 15.11.2016
After this there will be additional wuppdays. If Whether they will happen will be decided around the 10.11.2016 depending on how well the different needs are getting served.
Timeframe Time frame for this would be at least 2 more weeks.
What you could bring with you:
- motivation
- openness
- sleeping bag (there are some blankets but not enough for all. If you don't have a sleeping back bag it's fine)
- camping mattress (if you have one, bring it. If not also fine.)
- food (if you could manage to collect some food on you your way here, that would be great. In this moment we're missing potatoes, bread, pasta, lenses lentils etc. update about this in the witzenhausen Witzenhausen channel)
So you're still reading? Seems like you 're interested coming byare really considering to come?
If you wanna come, please fill out this poll showing when you'd like to come and a pad describing a bit your interest.
Poll: https://poll.disroot.org/2CClNZUU8MdreNYU (official invitation is from now until 15.11.2016)
Pad: https://pad.disroot.org/p/witzenhausen
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