Wuppdays (#12) Witzenhausen

Welcome to the Wuppdays #12 in WItzenhausen. This time we're hosted by a Transition Town iniatives. So it's a great place to network, learn from eacht other and support where we can.
Thinking of comming? 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 you.

About the palce:

The Transition House is located in Witzenhausen. A little town pupular for having the first place in germany to only/fully study ecological agriculture. Which seems to make a great influence. Still while the city is small there are many iniatives doing social and commons work. Here just some of them:



It's a great oportiunity to explore and opening room for transparent communication incl. to encourage more people of beeing active. As the group of TT is looking for support in building a working team maintaining the house. This incl. practical work like repairing broken showers, but more even support in creating this team inlc. transparent and welcomming communication.
The place is looking for people taking commitment.

The Transition House

What is happening here?
It's like a plattform developing transition. Internal like external. There's a meeting room in the first place used as a open cafe,  jamsessions, meetings, workshops etc.
Also a great oportnunity finding out what you/we have to offer and hosting events.

rooms:

It has 4 floors hosting a diverse spectrum of groups. Encouraging with the different groups, and finding out how we can support each other is more then apprichiacated.

sleeping
There are 3 rooms which can are used as sleeping space. There are ca. 6 "normal" madresses in this moments, a couch to sleep on and camping madresses. Beside that there's in the so called hackingspace floor a living room incl. a sleeping couch to host 2-3 people.

food:

There are some supermarkets around with from time to time filled dumpsters. Cooperation are until now not existing. A market close by is also existing but we need to drive to get there. Can be bike or ca (which Hans-Christian Eick got offerd. If someone likes to work with iniative Solawi (community supported accriculture) that would be another possiblity to get some left overs.

social:

Everyone I met sofar is really open and friendly. The place was very welcomming to me. Communication between those who are already longer involved containes from time to time some unsolved conflicts. ...but just like very often if people work with different workingstyles/opinions etc. togehter. Nothing special. I just bring it up to invite you supporting in solving.

Why to have the wuppdays here?

It's directly where a couple of iniatives working with very simliar aims like yunity. Working for the commons. Every support we do here is supporting yunity even if it doesn't is directly supporting "our" group. It supports of streghing 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.

Paul_Free:

Are there madresses which can be used?

Sure, there are mattresses, although not 20-30. I would check in the next house meeting how we could think this. Would you all like to sleep directly in the house, very tight, or is it ok and desired to also look for places around (WGs, Yurt and caravans, etc.)?

Paul_Free:

Is there a foodsharing initative ( I think I remember the last time I've been there yes). How is the dumpster situation?

There is a Essensverschenkregal at the entrance of TT, but it's quite small and busy at all times (so not to expect a lot). There is a lot of people containering, which is why in Witzenhausen itself it is difficult to find good containers. Usually Bad Sooden (15 km from here) had quite good containers, but I heard last week they fenced it hard.

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.

Paul_Free:

are there fruit trees we can pick, or other food we can harvest.

There are many fruit trees around, but I guess by November most are out of season, apart maybe from some late apple trees. Transition Town Witzenhausen has active work on this (harvesting abandoned orchards, finding owners who are willing to share, etc.), so we could possibly use it. But, again, November will be limited in the amount supplied, and people here (remember, it's a faculty of ecological agriculture) are already very good in getting hold of available resources.

Furthermore, we can also ask the local CSA initiative to provide some vegetables and potatoes. In any case, there is twice a week some surplus left, which can be taken by anyone. We could ask if it would be ok to offer this to you directly. Again, it's November, so vegetable production will be very low in comparison to now.

Paul_Free:

I would like to have it in November for 2-4 weeks.

Please clarify the desired length with your group. Also, it would be important to understand how you want to contribute to the house, especially as you are probably not paying a contribution. This can be in the form of renovation of maintenance works, organisation of events generating income (e.g. cooking, cafés, etc.). The house is passing through a quite critical situation (although improving), both in terms of finances and collaborators, so it would be very important to see how your stay could contribute to improve the dynamics.

I would need to bring ideas to the Transition House assembly, ideally already for the one next week. Or I ask the people to express what they would like to have from you, and we initiate dialogue.

For the hackerspace (3rd floor of the house), which is directly rented by Ecobytes, we obviously provide you with the space unconditionally, so the request above is only for the usage of the remaining hous.

Looking forward for the yunity bunch to come 

https://discourse.transformap.co/t/wuppdays-in-witzenhausen/1185