Sunday hangout is today at 13:00 UTC. It is informal and everybody is welcome.

https://meet.jit.si/koto

Development team:

Our second sprint on a mobile game has finished. Two sprints to go for the first release.

Less tasks than planned was done, but progress was made.

Here are noscripts of the tasks we completed:
- More options to change the color
- Software architecture and patterns for minigames
- Minigame selecting view
- Calculating, viewing and storing of science, development and maintenance scores
- Learning Godot: animations
- Starting the first minigame

There three weren't finished:
- Character creation: option to use different body types
- Learning Godot: sounds

In the next development team meeting we will plan the next sprint and create more tasks to backlog if needed. Next sprint will start tomorrow and will end on Saturday 3.10 (a day before the next development team meeting)

Today is our monthly Tuesday hangout at 16:00 UTC. Everybody is welcome!

We usually go through what has been happening in teams and how people could help, and after that it is open floor for anything people want to discuss.

We use Jitsi for the meetings https://meet.jit.si/koto

Koto Coop Introduction video has been now published!

The idea of Koto Coop started a couple of years ago in Finland and is a grassroots initiative for a sustainable future where we share our resources, meaning both our materials and our time. With the goal of the well being of our human species being united and in cohabitation with our environment. Instead of the competitive, profit seeking incentive for infinite economic growth, to the detriment of both our individual and our collective health alike. With this in mind the purpose of Koto Coop is to develop and implement sustainable technologies and social structures that focus on making this vision a reality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_UBsWDjYaw

https://kotocoop.org

Please consider supporting our efforts:
https://kotocoop.org/support/
https://www.patreon.com/kotocoop
https://opencollective.com/kotocoop/contribute

Social media:
https://news.1rj.ru/str/kotocoop
https://twitter.com/kotocoop
https://facebook.com/kotocoop

Today at Zeitgeist-Day Main Event Clifford Frei from global TZM is going to give a presentation about Koto Co-op. The event starts soon at 12.00 (UTC) [14.00 Finland time] on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmbJIQwpVIX8K4FlzH9nn-Q Make sure to tune in!

Event can be found here https://www.facebook.com/events/569630620225604/ and

To find more information about Zeitgeist, on Zeitgeist's web page https://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/zdayglobal/ and on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9522z7G0lbU&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=TheZeitgeistMovement-Iceland

For broader topics than specific projects we welcome people to join "Creating hi-tech NL/RBE communities" group.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/joinchat/HJFMZks3_ieybnMEOctqdw

Koto co-op developers team update 6.12.2020:

We decided to put the game project on hold and for now focus on creating a website service for clients.

We wanted to update our own website so we used that as a test site for the platforms we plan to configure for clients to use. We managed to publish the website before z-day as planned. Check it out! https://kotocoop.org

We are using Hugo website generator to create websites and they are published on Gitlap pages. Next steps are to look into different editor options so clients (and our own editors) can make changes to content more easily and to make the process a service that clients can request.

In English below

Koto osuuskunnan onnistuminen on riippuvainen ihmisistä. Kaikki tapahtuu toimijoiden kautta. Tällä hetkellä meillä on kymmenkunta aktiivisesti mukana olevaa henkilöä, mutta mukaan tarvitaan paljon lisää. Siksi rohkaisemme juuri sinua liittymään mukaan Koto yhteisöön.
Helpoiten pääset mukaan kun menet osoitteeseen https://kotocoop.org/#contact ja täytät hakulomakkeen. Me olemme sinuun yhteydessä.
Koto osuuskunnan toiminta on tällä hetkellä jaettu tiimeihin. Näitä tiimejä ovat mm. ohjelmistotiimi, viestintätiimi, Youtube-tiimi, ja teknologiatiimi. Tiimejä tulee lisää sitä mukaa kun toiminta kasvaa ja saamme lisää toimijoita. Tavoitteenamme on saada ensimmäinen asumisyksikkö käyntiin keväällä ja myös sinne etsitään kiinnostuneita.
Koto yhteisössä toimiessa pääset luomaan uutta ja haastamaan itseäsi kestävää maailmaa kehittäessä. Pääset osaksi yhteisöä, jossa panostasi arvostetaan. Pääset työskentelemään sen eteen, että mahdollistat kestävän, yhteisöllisen ja rennomman elämäntavan itsellesi ja/tai muille. Ja ennen kaikkea pääset tekemään maailmasta paremman paikan.
Koto osuuskunnan yhteydessä toimiminen on vapaaehtoistyötä, joten mukaan voit tulla myös matalalla kynnyksellä tekemään juuri sen verran kun itse pystyt. Emme vaadi mitään erityisiä taitoja tai koulutusta vaan kaikille innokkaille löytyy varmasti paikkansa, kunhan on valmis oppimaan uutta. Ainoa vaatimuksemme on että toimit hyvässä yhteishengessä ja kunnioitat toisia Koto yhteisön ihmisiä.
Me tarvitsemme sinua ja arvostamme tukeasi.
Liity mukaan Koto osuuskuntaan!

The success of Koto Co-op depends on people. Noting will happen without the people. Right now we have around ten people actively involved. But we need much more. Therefore we invite you to join to Koto community.
Easiest way to get involved is by heading to https://kotocoop.org/#contact and filling up the application form. We will be in touch.
Right now operation of Koto Co-op is organized to teams. These teams include developer team, communication team, Youtube team, and technology team. More teams will emerge when our activities grow and we get more people involved. Also our goal is to start our first living unit next spring and we are looking for people to join there as well.
When working in Koto community you get to create something new and challenge yourself while developing a sustainable world. You will become a part of a community where your efforts are appreciated. You get to work for enabling sustainable, communal, and more relaxed lifestyle for you and/or someone else. And above all, you get to make the world a better place.
Working in Koto Co-op is voluntary work, so you can join with low-threshold to work just as much as you can. We do not require any particular skills or education. There is a place for everyone who is interested and is ready to learn new things. Our only requirement is that you act with good team spirit and will respect other people in Koto community.
We need you and appreciate your support.
Join to Koto Co-op!

In English below

Tällä hetkellä Koto osuuskunta etsii ihmisiä erityisesti seuraaviin rooleihin:
1. Asukkaita ensimmäiseen yksikköön:
Tavoitteenamme on perustaa ensimmäinen asumisyksikkö ensi keväänä. Etsimme ihmisiä jotka olisivat valmiina olemaan kestävän yhteiskunnan pioneerejä. Heiltä vaadittaisiin kykyä heittäytyä mukaan uuteen ja erilaiseen. Tässä vaiheessa mukaan tulevat pääsevät vaikuttamaan suuresti esimerkiksi siihen, miten yksikkö on organisoitu ja missä se sijaitsee maantieteellisesti.
2. Vastuuhenkilöä myynti ja tuotekehitys tiimin vetäjäksi:
Tämä rooli on tärkeä Koto osuuskunnan toiminnan kasvattamiseksi ja kehittämiseksi. Tarkoituksenamme on suurimmilta osin rahoittaa toimintamme tekemällä työtä osuuskunnan ulkopuolelle. Kyseisen toiminnan edistämiseksi, myymiseksi ja kehittämiseksi tarvimme tiimin. Ja tätä tiimiä vetämään tarvitsemme vastuuhenkilön, joka tulee myös osaksi Koto osuuskunnan hallinnointi tiimiä.
Roolin keskeisimpänä osana on koordinoida tiimin toimintaa, mutta siinä pääsee myös käyttämään omaa luovuuttaan uusien palveluiden kehittämiseksi sekä toimimaan yhdessä koko Koto yhteisön kanssa.
3. Henkilöitä myynti ja tuotekehitys tiimiin:
Etsimme myös henkiöitä, jotka eivät ole kiinnostuneita vastuusta mutta joita myynti, markkinointi ja tuotekehitys kiinnostavat.
4. Tekniikan osaajia:
Teknologiatiimi etsii tekniikan osaajia, ammattilaisia, opiskelijoita ja muita kiinnostuneita. Ensimmäiseen yksikköön liittyen kaipaamme LVIS-asentajia ja rakentajia. Teknologia tiimin kehitysprojektien aloittamista varten tarvitaan myös yleisesti tekniikasta kiinnostuneita.
Toimintaan mukaan tuleminen ei vaadi paljoa aikaa. Yleisesti toimijoilta odotamme vain n. kaksi tuntia viikosta panosta ja vastuuhenkilöiltä hieman enemmän.

Currently Koto Co-op is looking for people particularly to these roles:
1.Residents to the first living unit: (Note, basics of the Finnish language is appreciated)
Our goal is to start the first unit next spring. We are looking for people that would be ready to act as pioneers of sustainable living. Open mindedness towards new ways of living and working. People joining in right now would get to affect the organization and location of the first unit.
2. Responsible person for sales and product development team:
This role is important for the growth and development of Koto Co-op. Our goal is to fund our operation mostly by doing work to outside of the co-op. For developing, enabling, marketing and selling these kinds of activities we would need a team that needs a responsible person. This responsible person would also join to Koto Co-op administration team.
The main part of the role is to coordinate this sales and product development team, but you also get to use your creativity in developing new services and also work together with the whole Koto community.
3. People to this sales and marketing team:
We are also looking for people that are not ready to take responsibility but are interested in sales, marketing, and product development.
4. People with technical knowledge or interest:
Technology team is looking for people with technical knowledge or interest, professionals, students and others interested. Regarding the first living unit we would really appreciate electricians, plumbers, and builders. For starting technical development project we need people that are interested in technology in general.
Joining to Koto commonity does not require much time. In general we expect only around two hours per week involvement and little bit more for the responsible person of the teams.

Hi everyone!

Koto is having a winter holiday for a few weeks now. Despite the pandemic try to enjoy yourself and be safe.

It has been an eventful year for Koto. For an organization based on voluntary work we have expanded quite fast, especially given the current world affairs. We started the year with Juuso Vilmunen, Juuso Määttä, and Tuomas Ceder and new people have joined in throughout the year. In the summer and fall we have started to create a basis for our organization. This work of defining, creating and developing our structure will continue next year.

Huge thanks to our YouTube, communication, and developer team for the great job this fall. Also special thanks to everyone that have attended the coordination meetings that we started to held towards the end of the year. Our next coordination meeting will be on 14.1.

Next year will start with publishing of our recruitment video, which is ready and just waiting to be published. While we continue to expand our operation and establish new teams our main project next spring is the first living unit.

Next year will certainly be an exiting year for Koto Co-op.

Thank you for this year!
Kiitos tästä vuodesta!
❤

Koto Co-Op & The New Thing | Clifford Frei | Global Zeitgeist Day 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZotD4p_sN4

Clifford Frei is a global activist of human rights, environmental protection, Internet freedom and privacy, plus a co-founder of The Zeitgeist Movement in Germany. He has a background in computer science, graphic art and linguistics. In his presentation, he will showcase a new community/co-op project that is being developed by The Zeitgeist Movement in Finland. It is an alternative economic community project where Koto tries to sustain a post-scarcity economic model while still being able to sustain and also not isolate itself from other economies outside of it. Another distribution of Koto that is emerging from The Zeitgeist Movement in Iceland is called “The New Thing” and will follow a similar strategy from Koto but with some minor differences with more of a focus of being an open community center.

Koto Co-Op: https://kotocoop.org/

Kiinnostaako toimintamme? Haluaisitko liittyä mukaan Koton innostavaan tiimiin?

Oheisessa videossa kerromme mitä osaamistamme tarvitsemme tällä hetkellä eniten ja kuinka voit liittyä mukaan!

Käy kurkkaamassa Koton Youtube kanavan uusi video tästä!

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Are you interested in our activities? Would you like to join our team?

In the video attached to this post you can find what kind of specialty we need right now and how you can join in!

Check out the new video by Koto's Youtube team here!

https://youtu.be/U_8q48tddiY

We are happy to announce that we have established our first technology development team of Koto Co-op. This team of four engineering students is focused on electrical engineering and developing different devices and systems that are needed in production and distribution of electricity. The first project
of the team is development of open-source inverter, which are needed for example when producing electricity from solar panels. We hope to be able to soon start more technical development teams focusing on other areas. Let the open sourcing of the means of production begin.

We are looking for people who are interested in joining a unit in Koto. Everybody interested should fill this questionnaire: https://kotocoop.org/joining_a_unit

Currently we are mostly working in Europe, but if you are interested and living elsewhere, we would like to hear about you too.

The first unit will be likely be a small place in the Finnish countryside with accommodation, a workshop and land to test out different agricultural methods. The details largely depend on what people joining are interested in and want to make out of it, so it is important that we get answers even if people are unsure of what kind of a unit they would like to join.

https://kotocoop.org/blog/2021-02-22-join-a-koto-unit/

Our next hangout session is next Sunday 14.3. at 14 UTC (16 Suomen aikaa) in https://meet.jit.si/koto. Last time was really fun and I hope that many of you are able to join this time as well. This hangout session is especially meant for new people to come and meet us. See you on Sunday everyone❤

Check out Koto Co-op's YouTube team's new video about Structures of Koto Co-op!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suhYb73UUX4

This weeks Sunday is once again our hangout session. Especially all the newcomers are very welcome. This time it will be held on separate hangout jitsi room. We start at 13 UTC (klo 16 Suomen aikaa) but you can join in at any time. We hope that you join in with us to have a good time. https://meet.jit.si/kotocoop_sunday_hangouts

Because of Mother's day we have re-scheduled our hangout session from tomorrow to next week's Sunday. So we will meet on 16.5. at 13 UTC (klo 16 Suomen aikaa) in https://meet.jit.si/kotocoop_sunday_hangouts

Next hangout session will be this Sunday. We are looking forward to seeing all of you there. Once again it will be on at 13 UTC (klo 16 Suomen aikaa) in jitsi. https://meet.jit.si/kotocoop_sunday_hangouts

Koto hangout is once again coming this Sunday. We hope thay you will be able to join. You can find us at 13 UTC (klo 16 Suomen aikaa) in jitsi. See you then!🌞 https://meet.jit.si/kotocoop_sunday_hangouts