dwagenk @dwagenk@fosstodon.org

The concept is called #mietshäusersyndikat ( https://syndikat.org ) and there's a mechanism in place that we can't just decide to sell the house again and take out our personal profit. Instead the house will be managed by the inhabitants basically forever, even if the current inhabitants decide to move on.

Huge portion of the money needed for building the house came in as loans from our own savings, friends, family and supporters. There's also a bank loan involved, so if things get even worse in the coming months we might have to start striking on paying that one back.

Family and I will not be striking though. We just moved to a house we collectively built and now live in, own and manage with a group of ~40 people. Technically we're still paying rent but we as a group are also our own landladies*lords (is there a better english term for that?). We have a everybody-pays-what-she*-can-afford rent policy where everybody sets their portion of the rent themselves and we do rounds of raising our "bids" until the needed sum for the whole house is reached.

I'm very much in favor of all the calls for #rentstrike

Organize and do it together! House owners will fight back, so be prepared!

Regarding the setup-procedure: something that has a sane-defaults #docker(-compose) or #nixOS installation method available would be great.

We have a (segmented) LAN setup in the house sharing one VDSL connection to the outer world, so connection speeds shouldn't be a problem if it's a #peer2peer solution or hosted locally.

I still have an old laptop (2core, ~2,5GHz, 4GB RAM) I could set up as a local server.

We have a #nextcloud instance with #talk, #collabora office and the "new" editor, that allows collaborative editing of markdown documents available.

Talk has been unreliable even in small meetings. Collabora works OK, but lags a little too much even in those mini meetings. I haven't really tested the editor yet, but had some issues with it locking up after a few minutes of single-user usage (reload page fixed it).

Guess it would not work well for such a large meeting...

We have a meeting with up to 20 people coming up tomorrow. We collectivly own and manage the building we live in and need to coordinate some things. The meeting will be remote of course, with everyone sitting in their own apartments.

I'm looking for suggestions which free software solutions to use.

We don't really need #videochat, voice + #screensharing or a #pad with basic formating support (bold, italic, lists, maybe tables) would be enough.

#fossmendations #remote