Digital Justice SocietyApr 27

We're supporting @sage_southaus to do undertake a particiaptory micro-grant funding round for local grassroots groups and initiatives that can offer projects to help address systemic and long term issues around wellbeing in our activist (and related) communities.

We're preparing to use an incredible open source tool called CoBudget but as we look over the code we can see that since COVID the project could do with a little love.

Are you or do you know any devs who could look over the project code and pass on their thoughts for improving the developer experience on the project.

The project needs to attract some new devs and we've often found making it easier to get involved and contribute can help attract new dev contributors.

https://github.com/cobudget/cobudget/

Tech Stack:

#NextJs #Typescript #Urql #CoBudget #ApolloGraphQl #Prisma #PostgreSQL

#dev #OpenSource #Enspiral #CoBudget

GitHub - cobudget/cobudget: Participatory budgeting

Participatory budgeting. Contribute to cobudget/cobudget development by creating an account on GitHub.

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It's RichieOct 8, 2025

#CoLiving

Co-living is about living well with housemates, intergenerational homes and in intentional communities like eco-villages. Basically anything beyond the modernist nuclear family setup.

Does anyone have any resources around co-living from getting started zines to resources on setting up good housemates decision making practices.

Increasingly folks around me are exploring different configurations for living together and it raises questions around how to do this well.

Keen for resources!!!

cc: @teq @jadehopepunk @goblin @ryan @maddy

#CoLiving #IntentionalCommunities #EcoVillages #ShareHouse #LivingTogether #Housemates #Chores
#SpokesCouncil #Enspiral

StrypeyNov 27, 2022

I just realized there's no article on Enspiral on Wikipedia!?! Going to fix that right now...

http://www.reactiongifs.com/aggression/

#Enspiral #Wikipedia

This Aggression - Reaction GIFs

aggression, aggro, defensive, Jeff Bridges, stand, The Big Lebowski, upset

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ckohtalaApr 20, 2019
Francesca Pick from #OuiShareFest on participatory governance and self management tools
#Enspiral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwBMuqZEIoM&feature=youtu.be
Better Work Together - Francesca Pick at New Frontiers March 2019

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ckohtalaMar 21, 2019
yay! #Enspiral #decentralized #commons #community #activism
Don SmithMar 5, 2019
On a recommendation from @utzer, this is a #newhere post with some hashtags of things I care about: #dev #linux #decentralization #yoga #meditation #cycling #running #education #nz #microsolidarity and #enspiral That's a pretty good start 😉
Show threadStrypeyJan 19, 2019
@clacke There's a reason #PeterThiel bought land in NZ - you don't even need to be a resident - and every other rich f%^$r who wants a bolthole if the revolution comes is doing it too. We are #Sealand! It's even in the name! If you read up about property prices in the bigger cities in NZ (where most of the kiwi #Enspiral folks are), they are some of highest in the world relative to incomes. Besides only some of the #Enspiral folks live there these days, it's a multinational cooperation.
@lain
Show threadStrypeyJan 18, 2019

@clacke
> I think your hourly rate estimate is pretty low.

You've never been to Aotearoa have you ;) From what I've heard talking to folks at #Enspiral, $40 an hour would be a generous rate for social enterprise work. Happy to be corrected on this. @lightweight ? But yes, as you say, since most of what they propose to "build" already exists in multiple free code CMS, I'm picking most of that money just gets pocketed by the boss.

StrypeyNov 29, 2018

The is a great piece by Rich Bartlett of #Enspiral, #Loomio, and #TheHub, talking about the advantages of federations of small groups, over networks of loosely connected individuals:
http://organizationunbound.org/expressive-change/build-a-network-of-small-groups-not-a-mass-movement-of-individuals/

It's reasons like these I encourage community-hosting more than self-hosting. Note: I'm not against self-hosting, for those who have the skills and motivation to set up and maintain it, it's just not my ideal that everyone self-hosts.

5 reasons to build a network of small groups, rather than a mass movement of individuals

Organization Unbound is an attempt to re-imagine the way we think about and engage in social change.

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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Nov 18, 2018
@paws @GuerillaOntologist Ok, I see. There's different levels of tightness of coordination in such groups. There are some worker co-op web dev shops I know of, but for simething a bit looser, perhaps the #Enspiral model fits what you're thinking of?