Welcome to the Wuppdays #12 in WItzenhausenWitzenhausen. This time we're hosted by a Transition Town iniatives(TT) initiative. So it's a great place to network, learn from eacht each other and support where we can.
Thinking of commingDo 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
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place:
The Transition House is located in Witzenhausen. A little town pupular popular for having the first place in germany 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 iniatives initiatives doing social and commons work. Here just some of them:
It's a great oportiunity opportunity to explore and opening room open rooms for transparent communication incl. and to encourage more people of beeing to being active. As the The group of TT is looking for support in building to build a working team maintaining to maintain the house. This incl. includes practical work like repairing broken showers, but more even support in creating this team inlc. transparent and welcomming 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 plattform platform developing transition. Internal like external. There's a meeting room in the first place primarily used as a open cafe, jamsessions, café or for jam sessions, meetings, workshops etc.
Also It is also a great oportnunity finding opportunity to find out what you/we have to offer and while hosting these events. There's a recurring repair café in the hacking space. A cooking team brings people together and provides food on donation basis.
There's a co-working space, mainly used by ecobytes and transformap 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 apprichiacatedappropriated.
sleeping
There are 3 three rooms which can are used as sleeping spacespaces. There are ca. around 6 "normal" madresses in mattresses at this momentsmoment, a couch to sleep on and some camping madressesmattresses. 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 15.
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 market close by is also existing . There is a farmers market nearby, but we need to drive to get there. Can be by bike or ca car (which Hans-Christian Eick got offerdoffered). If someone likes to work with iniative the initiative Solawi (community supported accricultureagriculture - CSA) that would be another possiblity possibility to get some left overs (everything biological.)
social:
Everyone I met sofar so far is really open and friendly. The place was very welcomming welcoming to me. Communication between those who are already longer involved containes 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. togehter. Nothing speciallonger together. 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 iniatives working with very simliar aims like yunityinitiatives here that have very similar goals. Working for the commons. Every support we do here is supporting yunity even if it doesnisn't is directly supporting "our" group. It supports of streghing supports strengthening the network aroun common economy etc. With having ecobytes, transition town, transformap and inventaire during this time in Witzenhausen the Wuppdays suits very good to strengthen, also through finding out how each of the projects can be supported.
There is a little pad existing. Please fill it out. 
https://pad.disroot.org/p/witzenhausen
and this one to see when you have time to attend
https://poll.disroot.org/2CClNZUU8MdreNYU
Question answer between me and Gualtar from transformap and ecobytes.
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One of my focuses during the wuppdays will lie rethinking the way we organize, writing (hopefuly with Doug some manuals), shifting from propertery software to libre, focusing and cristalizing collaboration possibilities and see how we can activate yunity contributers.
As that is one of the main areas of work of Ecobytes, providing free/libre tools and related workflows to (disperse) teams and networks, it would definitely be an interesting focus, also for us.
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However, there is a good scene for this (see e.g. http://containerprozesswiz.blogsport.de/1), and I think we could use your event to mobilize/create a momentum with the community.
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are there fruit trees we can pick, or other food we can harvest.
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Looking forward for the yunity bunch to come 
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around commons economy and local initiatives.
Ecobytes and transformap are also located here. Both connected to the idea of creating a multi-sharing online platform. Maxim from inventaire (book sharing), very enthusiastic about open data will be here as well.
What to do while the wuppdays?
Well it's wuppdays, so everyone should feel encouraged to do what you feel like 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 building 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, decision finding...etc. )
- communication within yunity (internal and external....incl. information flow, exclusion/inclusion, online tools...etc.)
- mapping
- wupphouse meetings
- dumpter diving
- cooking
- facilitation
- documentation
- building a house team
- setting up foodsharing
- 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"
Timeframe:
This time the wuppdays contain 2 different time frames:
The first one is fixed and:
When: now until 15.11.2016
After this there will be additional wuppdays. Whether they will happen will be decided around the 10.11.2016 depending on how well the different needs are getting served.
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 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 your way here, that would be great. In this moment we're missing potatoes, bread, pasta, lentils etc. update about this in the Witzenhausen channel)
So you're still reading? Seems like you are 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
Where:
Brückenstraße 20
37213 Witzenhausen
You can hitchhike easily. Train also works. There's a stop directly in Witzenhausen.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/771241#map=15/51.3937/9.7738&layers=N
Beside the TT House Jon from ecobytes and transformap offered us his flat from the 7-15.11, so we have extra sleeping space. (3-4 people)
Hope to see you soon! 