Newsletter on Trustroots Ideas

Save the Date: Trustroots Picnic in Berlin – August 2nd, 2026

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:41:34 +0200

We are writing this at the end of our 12th Hackathon in Portugal with the Trustroots team, with an invite to a summery potluck picnic in Berlin for the Trustroots community! Let’s hang out, connect over some shared food, BBQ, hear about ideas people are working on, amongst like minded people. We are also very excited to finally celebrate the next step of our community together: the launch of our new Nostroots app.

How we keep Trustroots free forever and ever and ever

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 13:10:55 +0100

As we announced last year, we’re evolving Trustroots into a new version of itself — one that’s more open, resilient, and user-empowered. This will be enabled by leveraging “nostr”, a decentralized network technology. For now, we call this version of Trustroots, “Nostroots”.

Wait… what? What’s all this talk about decentralized networks 🤔? I just want to keep meeting awesome people through Trustroots! Is that really necessary?

We get it. Many in our community are wondering what this means and why it matters. So let’s put the tech aside for a moment and focus on what’s truly important for our community.

Trustroots Summer Newsletter

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 17:04:32 +0200

Contents

Greetings
How to Reach out and Root
Hitchhiking During The Pandemic: A Field Report
How to Reach Out and Root
Want to Join the Trustroots Team?
Share your moments
Relevant links

Greetings Rooters! Happy Summer!

We are all slowly, carefully opening our hearts to travel and making connections as the globe tentatively wakes up after the pandemic. In times like these, it is more and more important for us all to put down roots as we reach across the world and build relationships. There is still so much conflict and uncertainty in the world, but with Trustroots, we can open our hearts and homes and minds to making friendships and living life fully. We have now grown to over 80,000 Trustroots members- your personal network of global friends is growing. Come meet everyone.

Trustroots Stories and News End of 2021 Edition

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:09:21 +0100

Table of Contents:

~ New Circles ~ Lets Meet in the Middle ~ The Traveling Psychology Advisor on Tour ~ #Trustroots Photos Around the World ~ Want to Join the Trustroots Team? ~ Relevant Links

Places are open, places are closed, again, Winter is here, Summer is here, migrations are happening all over, new love is blossoming, old patterns and lifestyles shifting and recalibrating.

Travel is happening, yet on a minimal level not seen in years or even decades. Some things are slowing down and going back to how it may have been. Maybe that’s a good thing. Travelers are looking for hosts in countries that are currently open, some borders have opened slowly, some have not, and some are looking for a warm place to land their feet in the Winter. And as some move around to other spots, there are hosts and homes to stay at, local dishes to taste, social gatherings to connect to and share whatever it is all of us are going through at this very moment.

Trustroots Travel Stories and News September Edition

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:58:50 +0200

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere has come to a close with the seasons changing and the leaves beginning to Fall. There has been traveling and hosting happening and in this edition of this Newsletter we highlight some of those hosting experiences. We also share some stories of hitchhiking, building off-grid, how to host a meetup on Trustroots, and crazy villa parties that come as a result of being hosted.

Trustroots Stories and News July Edition

Sun, 18 Jul 2021 22:43:50 +0200

Contents: Meet the Member: Steph Ryan You can never save enough carrots *byTa*nja Caron Glimpses of Prague Food Makes Me Happy My Trustroots Experience HospEx Recordings Available Open Hospitality Network Created Trustroots volunteer opportunities Share your moments Relevant Links

Greetings Trustroots Members and Newsletter Subscribers from Around the World!

Travel is beginning again in many parts of the world, yet some parts remain closed off and working to recover. We hope you are well wherever you are and that if you are traveling again, share with us some of your stories and feelings. Write to us at Share@trustroots.org and we can highlight your stories here on our Newsletter or social.

Trustroots Stories and News April Edition

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:55:11 +0200

Photo © Paul Grillet

Contents: *Experiences is Launched! *HospEx Summit May 8th *Meet the Member *Say Hello to Warmshowers Refugees *On the Road as a Hobo for 14 Years *Bea’s Journey into the Multiverse *A Photo Says More Than A Thousand Words *How to Write a Hosting Request! *Relevant Links

Now you can Share an Experience about anyone on Trustroots

Experiences is launched! What is experiences? It is basically a way to leave references for those you interact with on Trustroots. We call it experiences though, because we want to encourage everyone to share their personal experience, rather than share a judgement of the persons character, which can be hard to determine in a short amount of time.

Trustroots Travel Stories and News February 2021

Fri, 26 Feb 2021 08:32:05 +0100

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Greetings Trustrooters and readers!

Hoping you and anyone you are with are well in this unique time in human history. As the pandemic continues to encourage governments to close borders, impose lockdowns, curfews, and other restrictions, it is good to remember that it will be over soon enough. Vaccines will be more readily available, borders will open, travel will happen more freely, and doors will be open for those to stay over and share life together.

Trustroots Changelog — December/January

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 16:43:24 +0100

Let’s see if this becomes a habit, but the idea is to highlight all the small improvements and continuous efforts that go on Trustroots, thanks to all our volunteers! 👏

The search got a bigger upgrade under the hood — it’s now smoother and faster, especially on mobile. Visuals got refreshed a bit, but primarily this change will also unlock any future improvements to Search. Stay tuned!

Already visited dots are now a bit transparent, and currently selected offer is black.

Trustroots Travel Stories and Latest News

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:45:49 +0100

Greetings Trustrooters! Happy Winter if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere or Summer if you’re in the Southern.

The world continues to change and shift everyday, and we sincerely wish you are doing well in the midst of everything, and that you are able to experience some joy and love in the midst of it all.

Some have been able to travel again and are using Trustroots to facilitate safe hosting. Travel itself probably won’t come back the way it was until the middle of next year it seems..

Covered in covids

Sun, 17 May 2020 15:51:46 +0200

Dear friend,

you are looking at the first letter from the Trustroots community to itself. I hope it finds you in good health during this time of plague and forced sedentariness.

This letter, and the ones that will hopefully follow every two or three months, is about stories. I want to tell you of some pretty incredible adventures that some of us in the family have gone through, and you know we’re an adventurous bunch. Hey, maybe your story needs to be told too. And it will if you allow it.

Trustroots is now 10 000 members strong!

Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:47:23 +0200

Dear Worldwide Trustroots Community,

We made it to

10.000

members in eight months! Congratulations to all of you wonderful people!

Trustroots is an open, transparent, friendly and international Community. In this short time TR has welcomed members from many walks of life. Some were already users of hospitality networks, while others are completely new to this world.

Without your hospitality, your travels, your feedback, your patience with limited features and your willingness to help one another and spread

Introducing Trustroots

Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:39:02 +0100

Yay! Trustroots.org is now out of the first testing/bugfixing round. It’s time to join us and spread the word!

This post was originally published at Mikael’s blog.

Me and other hospex activists are creating a new volunteer based gift/free-economy project. While hosting will be at the core of

Trustroots

, it’s not limited to it.

Hitchwiki Hosts

This project started from an idea to create “Hitchwiki Hosts”. We were frustrated with CouchSurfing and later with BeWelcome not really moving forward, and thus we decided to act.