An update on Twine, Oxfordshire Connects, and a workshop invitation
Hello everyone,
Welcome to your new year Digital Commons Cooperative newsletter! We’ve got three interesting pieces of news for you this time:
The end of the line for Twine
Firstly, we have made the sad decision to close down Twine, our visitor and volunteer management apps. We have struggled to find a workable model that would ensure Twine continues being a high quality product. You can read more about our decision, and what we’ve learned from the process of taking on and stewarding a product that we didn’t create here.
If you’re a Twine user, you should have had an email from us on 7th January explaining more about what to do and how to export your data. If you didn’t, or you have any questions, drop us an email on twine@digitalcommons.coop.
Making connections across Oxfordshire
We are publishing the report on our collaboration with Community Action Groups Oxford (CAG) on the community tech needs of Oxfordshire’s social action groups.
In 23/24 the Oxfordshire Connects project explored ways to develop and improve the community tech that is available to Oxfordshire’s social action organisations in order to help them achieve their missions.
The project came out of the Owned By Oxford project, which was co-founded by CAG and our founders Solidarity Economy Association (SEA). You can find the report here.
Online Workshop Invitation: Data for Community Assets
Shared Assets and Digital Commons are holding an online workshop to test new features of the Land Explorer tool. The new features gather ownership data about community assets to support community groups in their community ownership processes. We invite participants to share feedback on these new features, which were developed in response to needs raised in workshops in October.
Tuesday 18 February: 10am-12pm, Data for Community Assets Workshop
RSVP: email sofia@sharedassets.org.uk by 6 February. There is a small participation budget available - please enquire when you RSVP.
That’s all for now!
all the best
the Digital Commons team.