[ctp-tech] intro

Hey 👋 I've been chatting with Kim about community tech topics recently, and seems we're on a similar pathway, and so got invited here, thanks for having me! Not sure who is quite on this list, or what kind of things get discussed. I'm sure I know some of you already, e.g. autonomic, common knowledge, other cotech people.. In any case, here's a little intro with my best attempt at including some relevant info... My community tech energy primarily goes into https://karrot.world / https://codeberg.org/karrot/ - which is becoming a kind of all in one tool for community organising (which can mean multiple things...) of a self-organised flavour, commons-y, sociocracy kind of idea. It's based on independent groups you have to apply to join, has threaded messaging, activity co-ordination, polls, trust-based permissions, video calls, collaborative pads, plugin system, etcetc. Roles, and sanctions coming soon. Built with django + vue + postgres + redis, kind of "boring" stack. Self-hostable via co-op cloud / etc. And strongly open source. It's mostly used by groups across Europe that save food from waste, but can be used for other community organising use cases too. I'm keen to find scenarios to collaborate, use it as a base to build other things (maybe can avoid building more similar things from scratch?), share learnings, or just hang out and talk about these kind of things! Especially in the UK (where I am from and based, but our team is distributed around Europe). We have had two rounds of funding from nlnet, around 45kEUR in total, and have been online about 9 years (!), and the food saving groups use it to co-ordinate distribution of around 4000kg of food per day. I also sometimes do bits of more freelance-y type work, as Karrot doesn't cover our costs of living, probably need to do some of that this year, so also looking to collaborate on that kind of thing too. Not tech related stuff: I live on a canal boat around in/around the Bath area, and very much into nature, healing, therapy-type topics (IFS lately), low cost living, amateur music jamming/singing, bike touring, wild camping. Happy to discuss more on or off list about any of these kind of things! Cheers, Nick