The yunity heartbeat - what has each team done, what are they doing and what do they need help with.
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Wurzen Planning.
After the wh-y-unity meetings took place from March 12 to 19, it was finally time for the Wurzen plannings to start! The people mainly involved in this initial phase of concrete planning are Matthias Larisch, Bodhi Neiser, Douglas Webb and fr4nk 0nf1r3. Those are also the ones, who will be moving in first.
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More detailed minutes from the meetings, which commenced on March 21st can be found here.
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Freemarkets in Badue and Berlin.
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Visit our tool on foodsaving.world
In Progress
- Joachim Thome and Janina Abels arrived in Bilbao and started working on kickstarting foodsharing there together with Unai Gaztelu. Updates are reported daily on the wiki page linked, so stay tuned!
- Nick Sellen is carrying the torch for the foodsaving tool team, while Tilmann is absent. He recently created an issue to discuss possible rebranding of the software, so that existing groups don't feel as if they joined another organization, when starting to use it on foodsaving.world. Any input on this is welcome!
- Nick Sellen also came up with the idea to have a blog, that collects any relevant info from the world of foodsaving - be it more or less commercial - to create a resource for interested people. This blog just started, but we hope to fill it with valuable information soon!
- Isabella from Malo recently contacted us with some questions on how to use the foodsaving tool. We had no idea that the cooperations built for the very first WuppDays in October 2016 were still working! And now she's even using our software, isn't that a great development?
- Another update reached our ears from Stefan Simon, who was the driving force behind foodsharing Taiwan: Even though he is back in Europe for now, the Taiwanese initiative goes on and he even gives interviews via Skype to curious journalists! He plans on going back in summer, and then the project will probably expand again.
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- There now is a specific space on the wiki for everything related to foodsharing.de development.
- Two online meetings have already been held, one on 2017-03-11 and one on 2017-03-23.
In Progress
- Dominik came up with the idea to create a template for local groups to use, when wanting to create an individual homepage. This would allow for more individuality - also doing more justice to the new association structure in foodsharing.de, which basically makes every local community their own association, be it registered or not - while at the same time maintaining a somewhat common look and identity.
- There also is the idea to create a better mobile app, that would facilitate contacting specific individuals using push notifications. If this would be a native app or a mobile-friendly web app is still discussed.
- Lorenz Sieben expressed interest to implement Doctrine ORM for the backend. He would like to investigate the codebase a bit more first, then discuss proposals to integrate an ORM. Lorenz is a little unsure of his time commitment though
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- Makka Cosa wrote a nice song called 'Sharing Kultur', that is inspired by yunity and foodsharing. He recorded it for us and it is now accessible on the wiki.
In Progress
- Bruno from Gothenburg told us, that he recently presented the idea of saving and sharing resources to more people in his city, who all were excited about it. Apart from an already active foodsaving community, there is a project called bicycle kitchen, that saves and repairs bikes from the streets, and according to Bruno they'd also need a sharing software at some point, since the interest in the topic is huge. They even have support of the city officials, and as it seems Gothenburg is fighting waste very actively!
To keep interested people from the wider community updated Bruno suggested to create #gothenburg on Slack, where he will share the news from now on. - Janina Abels wants to write pages on more parts of yunity culture, like hitchhiking, dumpster diving, functional living, plate licking and hygiene bottles. At some point she'll hopefully get to it...
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