June 25, 2023 Solstice Solidarity Summit hosted by Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks. Theme: Spreading Like Wildflowers II. Focus on trans-local work and how the HUMANs network can support it.
September 16 and 17, 1-3pm CDT each day, on zoom and anywhere any local group wants to gather (we’ll be at the Social Justice Center in Madison WI). Theme is Clusterflocks. Goal is clustering our flocks in ways that can build the potential of each...
September 16 and 17, 1-3pm CDT each day, on zoom and anywhere any local group wants to gather (we’ll be at the Social Justice Center in Madison WI). Theme is Clusterflocks. Goal is clustering our flocks in ways that can build the potential of each...
[Here's the link](https://vlaamsvredesinstituut.eu/en/reimaginingpeace2023-academi-heddwch-cymru-an-alternative-report/) to the post LOL. In case they ever change it, follow the below link for the archive: https://web.archive.org/web/202305171423...
Clip from HUMANs crowdfunding movie - "what would it look like if everyone were doing the work they loved, what they felt called to do? What if everyone had the opportunity to build their skills to their maximum capabilities, then apply them to ma...
We hosted an action-oriented workshop on building a health and wellness network, including care teams capable of meeting more comprehensive needs, plus cooperative models for relieving health care expenses. We gathered in person and connected a...
Solidarity Action Map Part III - building with newcomers - we'll present what's happening for newcomers to see, and invite them to add themselves into the mix. https://padlet.com/steph280/solidarity-summit-action-map-12-17-22-the-human-family-i0f3...
Saturday March 18, 10am-12 CDT/UTC-5: Solidarity Summit Action Map Part II. Build on the Action Map (https://padlet.com/steph280/solidarity-summit-action-map-12-17-22-the-human-family-i0f3qaq50vzmkl0w) we started at our previous solidarity summit,...
Saturday March 18, 8-10am CDT/UTC-5: Neighborocracy learning session. Learn from Joseph Rathinam how Neighborocracy has been a tool to organize enormous numbers of neighborhoods in India to solve difficult problems and build beautiful solutions, b...
Checking in about our journey toward connecting different pieces of open source tech, with Communecter, Community Forge, HOME - odoo, nextcloud, drupal, murmurations, Common Good, and more
This is a little video we made for a 2015ish crowdfunding campaign, and I still think it represents our ideas well. The terms are old (we're the HUMANs now, no longer the Main MAN; robust budgeting is posh-terity budgeting; we've started calling c...
The HOME Economics session one day prior to HUMANs' 12.17.22 Solidarity Summit, showing how the action mapping can connect with the HOME marketplace and other collaboration tools to 'hire' each other to build the solidarity economy.
Theme: The HUMAN Family On zoom, Saturday December 17 at 2-4pmCST we hosted our quarterly Solidarity Summit and annual general member meeting. Overview and action-mapping session, and a 15-minute Board election. What’s action mapping? We’re ...
Matthew Slater gives and admin-oriented overview of the Community Forge hamlets instance - marketplace software - to Gorazd and Stephanie of HUMANs (mutualaidnetwork.org)
This is a raw zoom video of a workshop using the Posh-terity budgeting spreadsheet to see how we can start to shift into more of the work we want, less of the work we don't. Making a do-it-ourselves Lively Humanhood
This is a good overview of the basics of our version of Mutual Aid Networks - The New The MAN! Some of the terms have changed (we're now the HUMANs instead of the Main MAN, for example. Robust budgeting is now Posh-terity budgeting. that's about a...
This is the first time offering an overview of Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks' cooperative economic tools and practices, in the context of the HOME open source software project. Under an hour overview of each piece, how they fit together, ...
Stephanie Rearick gives Matthew Slater an overview of the HOmeostatic Mutual Exchange open source software ecosystem.
Learn about our HOME open source software ecosystem, how it can benefit you and your work; hear about different projects from around the world; see how you can be involved including connecting via your own offers and needs. September Solidarity...
What highly unusual licenses should the Open Source Initiative consider next? Where’s the fine line between maintainer success and maintainer burnout? Should we alias git reset --hard to git regret --hard? I’ve been in free and open source soft...
Overview of the HOmeostatic Mutual Exchange open source tech ecosystem being assembled and built on by Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks, Humanum, Valeureux, and more partners. This was geared toward people with some tech experience or tools th...
What is Free Culture? This is a little video I made mostly for more editing practice, but also to answer the question "What is Free Culture?" and to give a little bit of the context, reasons, and practical economic side of the idea. A lot of pe...
I liked Jonathan Mann's performance of "Copying Isn't Theft", but it was not an exact match to Nina Paley's animation. Here I've simply tweaked the video using Kino to match up the lipsync to Mann's singing. This is maybe my 2nd or 3rd Kino edit, ...
The 3rd session showing the new and being-improved HOME - HOmeostatic Mutual Exchange system - for our mutual aid work. This is a set of open source tech tools which will help us create a neighborly global economy.