11 Feb
2025
11 Feb
'25
6:44 p.m.
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
10:57 a.m.
Nice to meet you! Maybe see you in London for CoTech meet in March? If not,
then I look forward to meeting you online at a one of these tech partners
meets. The co-op I belong to will be joining CoTech as soon as our
paperwork is in order & I already work with Creative Coop who are active
members - so we are bound to cross paths soon.
As you know from Discord, I am also on the fringes of Tech for Good South
West - but not enamoured with them.
Karrot looks awesome. Amazing that you have managed to keep it online 9
years and going.
*Katja Mordaunt* (she/her)
Technical Project Lead
Geeks For Social Change
https://gfsc.studio
I work part time for GFSC and may not always be able to respond immediately
to your message. Likewise, please don’t ever feel the need to apologise for
responding to my emails at your own pace.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM Nick Sellen via CTP Tech Partners
<tech-partners(a)lists.gfsc.studio> wrote:
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
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7:03 p.m.
Hi Katja! Yes, I'll be at the cotech thing in March, actually I have a session there
on Community Tech - a show and tell. I'll do one slot of Karrot, but thinking 2 more
slots - Natasha (outlandish) is organising the whole thing and suggested keeping the show
& tell thing to co-tech people, given you are cotech connected, maybe you'd be up
to do a show & tell on something? (idea is for matt to introduce community tech
network work via video call, and then 3 in-person show & tells of about 10 minutes
each, then a discussion).
the whole event agenda is
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D2O6qCxcl0GMN0-gPIUZHhxwLFCzqkCpWdR…
I did try and find some tech for good south west things to go to, but could never find any
thing to plug into... I have met Annie a couple of times, and have a nice chat, but yeah,
different world I think.
- Karrot looks awesome. Amazing that you have managed to keep it online 9 years and
going.
thanks :) I'm amazed it's 9 years really... it had a much grander start in life in
an Italian mansion back in 2015 --> https://yunity.org/en/heartbeat/wuppdays-begins
(2/5 of our team were at that original event).
(and hi to Oliver too! 👋🤗)
On Wednesday, 12 February 2025 at 10:57, Katja Mordaunt <katja(a)gfsc.studio> wrote:
Nice to meet you! Maybe see you in London for CoTech
meet in March? If not, then I look forward to meeting you online at a one of these tech
partners meets. The co-op I belong to will be joining CoTech as soon as our paperwork is
in order & I already work with Creative Coop who are active members - so we are bound
to cross paths soon.
As you know from Discord, I am also on the fringes of Tech for Good South West - but not
enamoured with them.
Karrot looks awesome. Amazing that you have managed to keep it online 9 years and going.
Katja Mordaunt (she/her)
Technical Project Lead
Geeks For Social Change
https://gfsc.studio
I work part time for GFSC and may not always be able to respond immediately to your
message. Likewise, please don’t ever feel the need to apologise for responding to my
emails at your own pace.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM Nick Sellen via CTP Tech Partners
<tech-partners(a)lists.gfsc.studio> wrote:
> 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
>
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