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Fellmer, Wintrich and their friend Martin Schott discussed the possibilities and practicalities of spreading foodsharing globally, then extending the scope of the project beyond just food. It turned out that they weren't the only ones to think that was a good idea and when the call was sent out to start this new project - yunity - over 200 people applied for the first meeting (WuppDays) in Malo.
WuppDays #8 Heichelheim, Germany, June & July 2016
/wiki/spaces/YUN/pages/16842759, joined with the preparation of the undjetzt!? conference. Important decisions took place during that time, e.g. the focus on the Foodsaving Tool and the idea to restart development on foodsharing.de.
August 2016 - WuppDays #9, Foodsharing Festival and other events
The WuppDays #9 in Kirchheim unter Teck began with the announcement of Raphael Fellmer and Martin Schott to start their own organization, sharecy. yuniteers were also present at the foodsharing festival, the climate camp, the degrowth conference and the new healing festival.
WuppBreak Neuried (#10), Germany, September 2016
Following an invitation from Tilmann to enjoy saved food and drinks from a commercial music festival, the WuppBreak September 2016 gathered around 30 yuniteers and interested people for over 3 weeks. Dreaming and planning meetings about the yunity Tours took place, a mud oven was designed and built by Joachim Thome and generally the event helped to bound and grow the yunity family.
October 2016
An intense weekend at the Hackathon Berlin kickstarted the development on foodsharing.de. A self-organized free market in Berlin spread the idea of unconditional sharing to a broader public.
WuppDays #12 Witzenhausen, first half of November 2016
This time we have been hosted by a Transition Town (TT) initiative. Witzenhausen is little town popular for being the first place in Germany to only/fully study ecological agriculture, which seems to have a great influence. Although the city is small there are many initiatives doing social and commons work. It was a great opportunity to explore and open rooms for transparent communication and to encourage more people to get active. The group of TT is looking for support to build a working team to maintain the house. This includes practical work like repairing broken showers, but also creating a team that is transparent and welcoming in its communication. The place is looking for people willing to contribute.
First WuppHaus
While at Witzenhausen, we got the offer to take over the old trainstation in Bad Dürrenberg as the very first WuppHaus. People got excited and immediately went there to find out how we could make use of this generous offer of Bernd Rühl. For some months the building was populated with yuniteers and also some locals ready to do some work to fix the house and create a free and open space for people to experience the beauty of unconditional sharing: We had a time so great and productive over Christmas and NYE that we called it WuppDays in retrospect, we held a free market and had workshops and seminars at the cold and roofless house.
Sadly, winter was cold and energy got drained after a while. Fixing a roof, that is completely missing without using money is a pretty difficult task and opinions concerning the scope and sense behind the moneyfree approach differed more and more clearly over time.
WuppDays #14 Barcelona
While some of us tried to make Bad Dürrenberg work according to their strict morals, others went South to escape winter and experience different perspectives. Read the heartbeat of February 5th to get an overview of the topics of that time.
Wh-y-unity meetings Harzgerode
In March 2017 a group of us gathered in Harzgerode to tackle the deep questions. Read the detailed minutes from this week of philosophical value to understand what we went through to get to this conclusion:
- yunity is a network and not a project
- yunity consists of individuals and subprojects
- yunity has values but no rules