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How to help struggling open source projects?
A story on how to help struggling open source projects by example and inspiration.
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What’s with unauthorised CouchSurfing verification payments?
CouchSurfing is really making an effort hiding away all the mentions about verification not being free and people are angry.
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What do we not know, and where can we make progress?
Physicist David Kaplan gives an excellent speech about why we shouldn’t always be measuring the economic gain. A documentary “Particle Fever” about the Large Hadron Collider — the largest and most complex machine ever built — is a very thoughtful and entertaining film. This was my favorite bit from it (or check it from the video): The question…
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How does Trustroots compare?
Why should I join you guys and what’s the difference? We hear this question sometimes and it often includes phrases like “—why don’t you help BeWelcome instead?” or “—what’s wrong with Couchsurfing?”. Complete reply would be lengthy and complicated, but I’ll give you some food for thought. About Couchsurfing many have written much better than I could and…
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Free-economy Quotes of the month
I’ve recently stumbled upon some pretty smart articles about traveling, free-economics and share-economics. Here are some bits I enjoyed the most. From The Hobos of Instagram at Vice: “I grew up with the internet, and sharing has always been a part of my life because of the age that I am,” she said. “It’s the age that…