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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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Meeting people now on Trustroots
You can now meet people on Trustroots even if you don’t need hosting or cannot host. This is probably the biggest change in Trustroots since our launch two years ago! As our community is already 27,000 members strong, we wanted to make Trustroots useful not only for those who can host or who are travelling. Our mission…
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Introducing the Trustroots shop
We have just launched a shop for Trustroots t-shirts and apparel — something our members have been asking for a while now. We want a world that encourages trust, adventure and intercultural connections. This is another way to show you are part of Trustroots family and promote that the willingness to help each other is universal,…
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Trustroots goes invitation only
From today, new members can only join Trustroots by invitation. Why? Trustroots is growing, we’ve just passed 25’000 members. We recently issued our first member ban. Until now Trustroots has been focused around the hitchhiking community. As we grow, we want to manage the transition to a wider audience carefully. Right now we simply don’t have the features to…
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Applying Trustroots values
This is the Trustroots vision statement: “A world that encourages trust and adventure.” These are a couple of the rules on trustroots.org Be friendly and know when to stop messaging someone. Be yourself, helpful, kind, responsible and respectful of others. Behaviour that is not respectful, is rude, aggressive, or discriminatory, does not belong on Trustroots.…
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Hitchwiki + Trustroots Install Party
Geeks! We’re in Berlin hacking on both Hitchwiki.org and Trustroots.org codebases. If you’d like to see how to get these projects running locally on your computer and volunteer working on them, come over and we’ll show you exactly how! Useful knowledge for Hitchwiki: PHP Javascript MediaWiki Useful knowledge for Trustroots: Javascript NodeJS AngularJS MongoDB ExpressJS…
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Introducing Trustroots Tribes*
Today we’re introducing Trustroots Tribes*. A Tribe* is a group of people on Trustroots with similar interests. How do you build a trust network that can scale up when it grows bigger? This question has occupied our minds for a long time. This started long before we actually founded Trustroots, when working on and using similar networks.…
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Message thread feedback
New feature! You can now give private feedback about messages you receive. We’re going towards “references type” features this spring. We will be collecting the data, do testing and figure out how to guide people towards better messages and full profiles. Things are likely to change along the way while we figure this out as…
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Trustroots is now 10 000 members strong!
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…
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Trustroots Picnic Berlin
As we wrote before, we’re all team here in Berlin now working on Trustroots. Let’s have a cozy day together with the community at the lake this Tuesday (11.8.2015)! Picnic around north-eastern end of Krumme Lanke (map). Time: ~3pm onwards. If you’re interested in volunteering; coding, translations, support etc we can have sessions about it…
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First Trustroots collective: Berlin 2015
From the 7th of August and onwards the Trustroots team is gathering in Berlin for the first Trustroots collective. We launched the website last December and we are very happy with the current situation. We now have an official non profit Trustroots Foundation registered in the UK. Almost 9000 members strong, with a lot of…
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