Category: Trustroots
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nostroots: first apk and progress report
We set up a Nostroots home page, with the most important information for normal users. For devs there’s https://github.com/trustroots/nostroots And here’s (most of) the progress report that we wrote for November 2024 till April 2025. Project updates At November’s hackathon week we decided to go for expo.dev with react native. This has worked out well…
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Nostr updates
We recently held a weekend hackathon to make notes.trustroots.org even better! A lot of our work focused on making sure that the notes we display on our map are trustworthy. We want to avoid showing any spam or invalid content, so we’ve set up a system to verify that notes come from real Trustroots users.…
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Moving Trustroots onto nostr
tl;dr we want to make sure that Trustroots exists two decades from now and unlock sharing beyond hospitality: rides, bicycles, meals, parties, etc. Trustroots has already had a brush with death. The project lead stepped away without a word. Only one other person had access to most of the servers. We’ve seen similar issues with…
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Restored from backup
We lost access to the latest version of this blog. I restored from the most recent backup that I had. Some posts have been lost. It’s not clear if we will be able to restore them. Some parts of the blog might not work properly. Hopefully in time these will be fixed.
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Trustroots Summer Newsletter
Contents 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…
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Trustroots Hackathon This Weekend!
This coming weekend there is another Hackathon happening! For three days and nights our team will be devoting as much time as possible working on projects like our react migration, iOS application and i18N translations. We’re are also looking for additional volunteers who would like to support with our communications and social media presence. Besides…
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Trustroots Stories and News End of 2021 Edition
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,…
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Trustroots Travel Stories and News September Edition
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…
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Trustroots Stories and News July Edition
Contents: Meet the Member: Steph Ryan You can never save enough carrots by Tanja Caron Glimpses of Prague Food Makes Me Happy My Trustroots ExperienceHospEx Recordings AvailableOpen Hospitality Network Created Trustroots volunteer opportunitiesShare your momentsRelevant Links Greetings Trustroots Members and Newsletter Subscribers from Around the World! Travel is beginning again in many parts of the world,…
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You Can Now Share Your Experiences With Members
From today on, you can share and write about your experiences with other Trustroots members! Trustroots has been growing at a steady pace since 2014, and Trustroots members can tend to share a common mindset. A vast majority of the community are helpful, kind, responsible and respectful to others and when there are disputes, our…
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Trustroots Stories and News April Edition
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…
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Trustroots Can Now Be Translated
Hallo, Hola, Hello, Salut, Ciao, There’s a lot going on behind the screens, and we have volunteers working on different fields to improve our platform. One of those fields is translating Trustroots to multiple languages, and we’re happy to say we’re releasing translated Trustroots in five of those languages! From this day forward, you can…