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The challenges of diversity
How to not get into a situation where you are surprised to be in a flat of paleo-nudists who asks you to be nude and only eat meat
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Decolonising Into Circles
You might be wondering why Trustroots is changing the name of Tribes. In this collaborative article we will try to explain what’s behind the change and why this matters. It has mainly been written by Mariyano, a Brazilian backpacker currently under lockdown in Buenos Aires due to the pandemic, and Martin A. who spent a…
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Journeys Through the Night
Community Stories, Vol. II Welcome to the second part of our community letter to ourselves! In case you missed the first one with Covid-19 lockdown experiences, you can find it here. This time around we are travelling through the night – sleeping at police stations in Pristina, trainhopping to escape from where nobody stops for…
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How is Trustroots different from Couchsurfing?
The elephant in the room Couchsurfing, the largest hospitality exchange network has announced on the 14th of May, that they will be requiring many of their users to pay a monthly subscription. Since Trustroots is also enabling hospitality exchange, this is very relevant to us. While Couchsurfing hasn’t claimed to be a charity or a…
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Covered in covids
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…
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Spring Hackweek
With a pandemic rolling over Europe and borders being closed, it might not be the time for traveling right now. But we think it’s a good time for working on a traveler’s network and pushing it to the next level. So, we didn’t cancel our hackweek that we were looking forward to. Instead, we’re doing…
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Trustroots in 2020
We are starting the new year with a lot of ideas and full of motivation to better the service that we can provide to you.We are a few volunteers that work on Trustroots and we are working hard. Trustroots User Survey Registration for Hackweek April 2020 We are not and will never ask you for…
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Barcelona Hacking Collective
This winter we are organizing a meetup in Barcelona for hackers and volunteers to boost the development of Trustroots and work on new ideas. Everybody is welcome!
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Meta Wiki Developers
mrkvon and banan arrived here a while ago and have been excellent at getting me deeper into the code base. This led to some cosmetic changes on the site, including edit buttons on some static pages such as the guide. Related to that, we now have a wiki: wiki.trustroots.org – it’s actually not new, we…
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What’s brewing at the Collective?
Hey folks! Near one of the longest virgin beaches of Spain, the mixture of work, sun and sea brought this great energy into the community of Trustroots: lots of new people ready to team up and work online! Growing the roots! Tech boost Online activity on Slack and GitHub has increased massively. A large part…
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Iberian Collective
tl;dr We’re organizing a Trustroots Collective this Autumn somewhere in the South of Portugal or in Andalusia. What A Collective is a time and space bound group of people choosing to work non profit on the same cause they believe in, like hospitality (exchange) or contributing in helping for any other reason. In short, we…
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