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

We have purchased a place for our first unit! The building was formerly a school and it is located in Rääkkylä, Eastern Finland. Check out new blog post regarding the unit building and tenant application!

https://kotocoop.org/blog/2021-07-16-a-place-for-our-first-unit/

We have added a code of conduct for the Koto Co-op organization. It applies in internal and external Koto Co-op activities such as internal messaging, activities and other Co-op related operations. As the community around Koto Co-op is growing all the time, it was mandatory to create one to ensure equal treatment for everybody working and participating in our activities. 

Code of conduct consists of different guidelines on how to be respectful and humane toward others. We wish that everyone participating in Koto activities would take a little time of their lives and read through the code of conduct. If you have any questions regarding the code of conduct, feel free to contact us and ask more questions. Thank you for your time!

https://kotocoop.org/articles/code_of_conduct/

A vegan lifestyle is more ecological and also ethical toward other beings: it's all about reducing unnecessary suffering. Koto community will strive to spread information and live by example, both in terms of veganism and other societal and technical aspects.

Read the full article on our website: https://kotocoop.org/articles/veganism/

Koto Co-op Auroora unit has now its own section on our website. There is some photos and more will come. We'll probably post more Auroora specific updates there too. Unit rules are still work in progress and will be published when they are ready.
https://kotocoop.org/units/auroora/

If you are interested in living there, please fill this questionnaire https://kotocoop.org/joining_a_unit and we'll get in contact with you.

Why Koto?

Here are some reasons why Koto is a good choice for an organization to join, if you want to work to make post-scarcity world a possibility.

https://odysee.com/@kotocoop:3/why_koto:1

For people interested in Finnish content we created a new video with a bit different style https://www.instagram.com/p/CXo6dZcNp6M/
Short videos like these will be posted more often than full videos on other platforms.