Thanks to all who have supported us during the last months and years!!!
We'll celebrate:

After three years, the time has come:
We have the first beta-version we release.
We do so on Saturday, May 14th 2016 at Sihlquai 131, Zurich, Switzerland - next to Limmatplatz.

From 2:30pm on there are workstations to try out
at 3:30pm there will be a presentation of the project.
Then at 4:30pm a meeting to discuss what will happen next. Open for anyone interested and especially for all who can imagine to contribute in any way with this exciting project.

That's what it is all about:

On Openki you can organize. arrange meetings in order to exchange knowledge with others.
Openki is a platform for networking and self-organization.
You can search, suggest, signing up, help organize or publish workshops, courses, lectures, discussions, etc.,.
Uncomplicated, non-commercial and last but not least: open-source.

What's gone?

• Many know us still under the name schuel.ch. Since a good year, we are now Openki. School was a bit too old-school. "Openki" is Russian for honey fungus whose subterranean threads spanning several square kilometers wide areas and plants intertwined reticulated together ... and occasionally pops somewhere fruiting on. * Plup! * We found this image quite beautiful.

• We were allowed to present the project in many places:
  From small garden projects to "Fachverein Education" at the University, from a local MackerLab to an IT-conference in Denmark.
  There was also a quite positive public review by the global Hackerspaces network.
  

• At various events Openki has been used:
  Tour de Lorraine, Sustainability Week "Nachhaltigkeitswoche" of the five Zurich universities, and the last year in the test phase, the Autonomous School Zurich and Bern.

• Foundation requests remained unsuccessful. While we are exempt from taxes but without a business plan and with all of the many areas in which we act, we fall through their nets. So we continue to work voluntarily. (Not that we'd be sad when someone helps us finding support)

• The Chaos Computer Club in Hamburg is running since quite a while their own Openki instance.

• Here you find a short video, which we have prepared for crowdfunding: https://vimeo.com/openki/filmli05en

• And, we even have Facebook now: https://facebook.com/openki.net

Please play around and try out here: sandbox.openki.net
And find more information here: http://about.openki.net
and the secret link to the alpha instance, live: https://alpha.openki.net
 
We are pleased if you forward this email to interested people and friends.
And hoping to welcome you next Saturday.

your Openkis

Stephan, Luca, Marcel, Rebi, Urban, Nora, Emre, Lucy, Thomas, Dana, Andreas, Beni, a.m.m.