yunity

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Why yunity?

• Selfishness
• Overconsumption
• Alienation
• Hunger
• Poverty
• Anonymity
• Throwaway society
• Waste
• Pollution
• ...

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But!

• Humans are social beings
• People long for community
• People like helping each other
• Everyone has time, skills and resources

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What is yunity?

yunity is a project that is developing a platform for sharing everything

yunity is the platform that is being developed

yunity is the community of people making it happen

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Vision, mission and primary objective

Our vision - the world we wish to see.�A society based on self-determination, trust and cooperation which allows people to live to their full potential and to preserve ecosystems for all living beings.

Our mission - the path to our vision.�We encourage relationships where people can share their time, skills and resources, unconditionally. Through these connections and communities we prevent waste and raise awareness for a sustainable way of living.

Our primary objective - the first step on our path.�To create then launch the yunity platform which will first bring the foodsharing movement world-wide.

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Backstory to the future

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One third of all food is wasted

Backstory to the future

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Foodsharing.de v0.1

Lebensmittelretten.de

Foodsharing.de v1.0

Foodsharing.de v1.0

Users share food via foodbaskets. If users choose to complete quiz and training they become foodsavers, cooperating with businesses. Regional ambassadors and central Orgateam provide structure.

• ~3 years
• ~100,00 users in DE, A & CH
• ~4 million Kg food saved
• Go foodsharing, go!

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Foodsharing.de v1.0

• Built in a way difficult to maintain or adapt.
• Raphi (Wintrich) exhausted by heroic full-stack, solo development.
• Bugs and lacking features restrict usability.
• Vulnerabilities prevent open-sourcing.
• Only available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
• Go yunity, go!

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What will the yunity platform be?

• Free. No sign-up cost, no in-app costs, no freemium - no cost to user.
• Ad-free. Not even one.
• Open-source. Licensed under AGPL2.0.
• Global. Available all over the world.
• Multilingual. Usable by everyone, everywhere.
• Extensible. Starting with food, extending to everything.
• Social. Offline and online.
• Awesome. Certified awesome.

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Teams

Teams arise when recurring themes bring the same people together. A more detailed summary with team member pictures on the wiki, a shorter one here;

• Product Team - Takes the dream and cuts it into pieces.
• Design Team - Makes everything look great.
• Development Team - 110011111001100011111.
• IT-Service Team - Has the passwords, puts routers everywhere.
• Legal Team - Covers for our illegal side-projects.
• PR Team - Makes everyone who can’t attend WuppDays jealous.
• Structure Team - Decides about decisions, recursively.
• Translation Team - Takes compassion on monolinguals.
• Research Team - Uses Facebook 20% more than other teams.
• FSINT Team - Actually saves and shares food.

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What we do now

https://project.yunity.org/#projects

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FSINT Tour

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Lean foodsaving tool

• A minimal software to manage store pick-ups
• Ready for testing - mvp-design.yunity.org

Media Kit

• A collection of useful files and information about different aspects of foodshaving, made by either us or other initiatives
• Ready to use and to translate in the specific target languages

Guidelines

• A subpage on yunity.org that contains short guides on how to start a foodsaving initiative and/or a sharing community

What are WuppDays?

• Contraction of wuppen, ‘organically manage, rocking’ (German) and days
• A time for contributors to work wupp, play and live together as a community.
• Cleaning and general tasks are shared as a team.
• Typically 2+ weeks in a borrowed venue with rescued food (i.e. always free)
• There is always vegan food, non-vegan food should be indicated.
• A little chaotic, surprisingly productive a whole lot of fun

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WuppDays so far and still to come

1. Malo (Sept/Oct 2015)
2. Mainz (Nov 2015)
3. Chemnitz (Dec 2015)
4. Chemnitz (Jan 2016)
5. Nürnberg (Feb 2016)
6. Rotterdam (Mar/Apr 2016)
7. Kirchheim (May 2016)
8. Weimar (Jun/Jul 2016)
9. Kirchheim (Aug 2016)
10. Neuried (Aug/Sep 2016)
11. Berlin (Oct 2016)
12. Witzenhausen (Nov 2016)

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What’s happening right now?

• Improve foodsharing.de
• Improve foodsharing.de app
• Develop foodsaving international tool

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Buddy up!

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Less experienced contributor

More experienced contributor

Shared work interests

Contributor checklist

• Identify your buddy.
• Sign up to the wiki. All working information found there.
• Open the wiki calendar to make sure you can see events.
• Sign up to Trello. Where tasks are found and recorded.
• Sign up to Slack. Where yunity chats (NB: things get lost, check wiki & Trello)
• Use the rota to work as a team (sign-up)
• Have a look at the description of the teams.
• Identify one thing can do that makes you happy and serves the project.
• Get enough rest and don’t burn out.

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