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Imagine!
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a world of community driven groups that
enables you to share your skills, your time or even your belongings. It fosters
connections between real people who want to share their resources. As
technology makes the world smaller, Roamalot brings people all across the globe
together, allowing members to roam freely between and within local communities,
sharing information and building relationships across the world and within
their community.
What is
Roamalot?
Roamalot is a website that enables you to share your skills, your
time or your belongings. It connects you with local people in their communities
to share these resources. The global networks allow you to roam freely between
these local communities, without losing your profile information and ratings.
What are you
funding here?
The
Roamalot team has been working on the website since March 2013. We have through
time identified two items that require funding beyond our own means and that’s
why we need your help.
Funding is
required for:
- The
core features of the sharing component for the website (sharing engine) require
development outside our set of skills. We need to hire a developer or company to
do this for us.
- We want to offer a secure and high performing
website. This requires a managed operation of web servers. We need to fund the
first year of operation based on the estimated future income of the platform.
Your
support goes directly towards those two items. We cannot do it alone, so we’re
asking you to give us a hand by donating to this project.
How can I
use Roamalot?
I can
participate in a local sharing community or start a new one. I share things,
time or skills with those around me. I can invite people to my home using the
global hospitality community. My visitors tell me their stories, we talk about culture,
cook together and I can show them my world.
I visit
other places and join in with the local communities during my stay. There is no
need for me to create a new profile and or start from scratch again. The global
network between the local communities allows me to roam freely, keeping my
profile and growing my reputation using the circles of trust I built in my
previous communities.
Sharing with
complete strangers? Are you insane?
The main currency in a sharing community is trust. Without trust,
nothing is going to work. Of course you’re not just going to give your beloved
tools to a complete stranger. They might break them or even worse run off with
them. This is an absolutely understandable point of view. That is why one of
Roamalot’s main functions is to allow you to build a web of trust by getting
rated and receiving references from people you have interacted with. This web
of trust is built inside the community and when you change to a different
community you take it along and don’t have to start from scratch, like you do
every time you join a new website.
Here some example of what Roamalot has to offer:
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Experience sharing
is a great example for a local community that you could build or participate
in. Help others in your community by coaching them with your experience and
guidance where they maybe otherwise cannot get any advice. Or spend some time
with a local of your community and listen to his or her experience and history.
There is so much potential lost by not interacting with the society around you
that by building a local experience community and inviting especially the
elderly to join in (they maybe just don’t know how to) we can again learn from
our elders and actively help our youngsters.
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Hospitality
sharing is a good example for a global community, because it involves more than
a single place. Travelers from all over the world roam about the planet,
discovering new worlds, sharing their experience with locals, meeting people
and spending time together. Once the roamers part way, there is a mechanism in
place that allows each participant to rate their experience. This allows for
the web of trust to become more solid.
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Kitchen sharing
is something we envision especially in the bigger cities with larger expat
communities. It’s a local sharing community with a global touch to it. Some
of us find ourselves living alone, and cooking for ourselves is just not as
fun as with others or for someone. So in the community someone states he or
she is making pasta tonight and has room for 3 more people. They share the
cost of the groceries or agree to each bring part of the dish like a good old
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Want to know more?
Want to know how this works for you? Send us a mail to support@romalot.com and describe your situation. We can then give you an example how Roamalot could work for you. Visit our website at http://www.roamalot.com and follow us there or on facebook or google+. Share it with your networks and help us finding the funding so we can make this work for you!