About

Loomio was a project born out of the Occupy Wallstreet movement meeting Enspiral. It’s a open source tool which supports decision making - specifically timely, iterative, consensus/consent building process, with a focus on clearly stated (and archival) records of results.

Read about all the places this tool has been used on the blog

Relationship

I was a member-owner of the cooperative that formed around building this, a programmer, a coordinator of translation, a scrum-master.

This was my first major FOSS (Open Source) project, my first cooperative experience. I was transformed forever by the commitment to values aligned technology, investment, ownership, group processes.

This project brought me into contact with collectives in New Zealand, and around the world. I also worked with activists who volunteered translating Loomio into their native languages – people working to grow collective power, support better discourse, bolster democracy.

Tech I worked with: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, NodeJS, i18n, and Amazon S3.