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 coming? 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 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 a great influence. Still while 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. to encourage more people of being active. The group of TT is looking for support in building a working team maintaining the house his incl. practical work like repairing broken showers, but more even support in creating this team incl. transparent and welcoming communication.
The place is looking for people taking commitment.
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 used as a open cafe, jamsessions, meetings, workshops etc.
Also a great opportunity finding out what you/we have to offer and hosting events. There's a recurring repair cafe in the hackingspace. A cooking team brings regular people on a donation basis together.
There's a coworking space, mainly used by ecobytes and transformap, an gallery for painting...etc.
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 appropriated.
sleeping
There are 3 rooms which are used as sleeping spaces. There are ca. 6 "normal" mattresses in this moment, a couch to sleep on and some camping mattress. Beside that there's in the so called hackingspace floor a living room incl. a sleeping couch to host 2-3 people. All in all it fits around ca. 15 unless we stack.
food:
There are some supermarkets around, with from time to time filled dumpsters. Cooperation are until now not existing. A farmers market close by is also existing but we need to drive to get there. Can be bike or car (which Hans-Christian Eick got offered. If someone likes to work with initiative Solawi (community supported agriculture) that would be another possibility to get some left overs (everything biological.)
social:
Everyone I met sofar 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 people work with different workingstyles/opinions etc. longer together. Nothing special, but some unfulfilled needs. I just bring it up to invite you supporting in solving.
Why to have the wuppdays here?
It's directly where a couple of initiatives working with very similar aims like yunity. 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 economy and local initiatives.
Also are here ecobytes and transformap located. Both fitting very well into the intention of creating a multisharing online plattform. Maxim from inventaire (book sharing), very enthusiastic about open data will be also here.
What to do while the wuppdays?
Well it's wuppdays, so everyone should feel encouraged to do what you feel to do. 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 webpage)
- foodsaving tool (continue to work on the foodsaving tool mainly by Tilmann)
- hosting events (ak asyl, küfa, yunity, freemarket, living and action spaces, desicion finding...etc. )
- communication within yunity (internal and external....incl. informationflow, exclusion/inclusion, online tools...etc.)
- mapping
- wupphouse meetings
- dumpter diving
- cooking
- facilitation
- documantation
- building a house team
- setting up foodsharing
- wildfood 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 timeframes:
The first one is fixed and:
When: now until 15.11.2016
After this there will be additional wuppdays. If they will happen will be decided around the 10.11.2016 depending on how well the different needs are getting served.
Timeframe 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 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 way here, that would be great. In this moment we're missing potatoes, bread, pasta, lenses etc. update about this in the witzenhausen channel
So you're still reading? Seems like you're interested coming by?
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.
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! 
