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Travellers' community for sharing, hosting and getting people together.

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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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    guaka

    December 27, 2014
    Trustroots, Volunteering
  • Introducing Trustroots

    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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    Mikael

    December 23, 2014
    Newsletter, Trustroots
  • 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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    Callum Macdonald

    October 3, 2014
    Trustroots
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Owned and operated by Trustroots Foundation, a non-profit registered in the United Kingdom since March 2015.

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Trustroots is being built by a small team of activists who felt that the world of sharing is being taken over by corporations trying to monetize people’s willingness to help each other. Same team brought you also Hitchwiki, Trashwiki and Nomadwiki.

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We think it’s a shame that former non-profits have been sold to venture capital. We’ve been running other notable free and open projects for a decade now, and we hope our deeds so far speak for us.

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