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Trustroots community is now 5000 members strong
Thank you! Thanks for the photo goes to Wesley Stanford. Check his photos, they’re great!
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung article (in German)
A couple of weeks ago Mikael, Callum and I were interviewed by Marlene Göring. She was writing an article about hospitality exchange for a renowned German newspaper. Here’s the article, it’s in German: Sofa So Good – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (posted here by author’s request). And a big chunk of it is about Trustroots! It mostly looks pretty…
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We’re now testing with Browserstack
Test driven development is great. Before you create new features or fix a bug you first write a test case that covers the specific issue. In the long run this means that you’re avoiding unforeseen side effects and that the entire code base is a lot more stable. Selenium testing is great in that you’re…
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Announcing the Trustroots Foundation
Exciting times! It’s time to give a little update about our legal status. From a legal point of view Trustroots has been a hobby project so far, but we obviously need a non-profit legal base for our project. We now have the Trustroots Foundation. We just set up a Limited by Guarantee (LBG) in the United Kingdom under…
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It’s not Trustroutes
This is a tiny post to help people who are trying to find us under other words. It’s not Trustroutes. But if you’re googling this name we want you to find us nevertheless. Same for trust routes, trustroute and trust route. It’s quite a nice name as well, especially when it comes to hitchhiking. But…
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How we “use” Facebook
It seems there is a misunderstanding about how we’re using Facebook. I’m getting some signals that some people don’t want to sign up “because of Facebook”. Let me clarify three things about what we do with Facebook. There is no and there never will be any obligation to have a Facebook account to use Trustroots.…
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Life outside the Big Blue Box
It’s not that everyone needs to stop using Facebook but those who actually communicate with friends, participate in communities and organise real life meetings really should start using something else as well. The rest could spend less time looking at stream of pictures and random blurbs, but for that Facebook is really ideal. Just like…
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Taking roots
I’m writing down my own opinions, ideas and experiences, these are not necessarily shared by other team members. The roots of this website have been growing for a long time. Back in 2005 I wrote an article about how hospitality exchange websites should be based on free software and free from censorship. In August 2006…
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Introducing Trustroots
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…
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It’s genuinely nice to be nice
Way back when, in the dim and distant past, when smartphones were still only a dream… CouchSurfing crashed, Casey wrote the famous “so long folks” letter. The community rose up and said we want this to continue. We value our gift economy, we want to keep this journey going. It started in Montreal, then continued…
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