Newsletter April 2025 - These groups live democracy every day 🌱
Hello Loomio friends,
It's a pleasure to be able to share these interviews with organizations that are thriving with innovative democratic practices using Loomio.
Scaling Team Decision-Making at Camplight
Camplight is a software development and consulting firm based in Europe. We talked about how they grew from 20 to 40 team members while staying true to autonomy and flat organizational principles.
Building Workplace Democracy at 10Pines
What if "no bosses" was more than just a cool recruiting slogan? What if every person in your company had equal say in determining salaries? Not just their own – everyone's. Sounds like a recipe for chaos, right?
Crafting Common Understanding at Witchcliffe Eco Village
Residents at Witchcliffe Eco Village in Western Australia are reimagining not only sustainable living — but how they make decisions together.
Activation Cooperation Fund: a model to distribute mutual aid
In this guest post, members of the ACF reflect on their 4-year experiment collecting and distributing financial support within their communities.
🎥 New! Loomio in 2 Minutes (Video)
Need to introduce Loomio to someone new? This quick explainer might help.
New features, thanks to OpenSSL and Igalia
We recently started working with OpenSSL, the organization behind the widely-used encryption library that secures much of the internet.
We're also continuing our partnership with Igalia, a company contributing to the web browsers you use every day.
Both organizations depend on Loomio to support decision-making; they're pushing the limits of what Loomio can do, providing valuable feedback, and.. sponsoring new feature development!
We hope to share an invterview with OpenSSL in the next newsletter. You can read our interview with Igalia here
Loomio keeps getting better
We continue to work on improving Loomio for our customers and open-source community of users.
Notify everyone in the group from a comment
Sometimes everyone needs to know — now you can mention the whole group just like tagging a person. Learn more
Delegates - easily manage who has voting rights.
When only some members have voting rights — elected or by role — you can now mark them as Delegates and easily invite just them to vote. Learn more
None of the above
We’ve added a “None of the above” option to polls and ranked choice votes.
Plus so much more - since our last newsletter we've fixed bugs and made many small improvements to the product.
What's next for the app?
Our roadmap for the year is looking good, here are the major highlights:
- Mobile support: save to homescreen & push notifications
- AI integration: summarize votes and launch threads/proposals
- Onboarding tutorial for new users
- Vue 3 UI upgrade: a fresh look + major performance boost
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Thank you
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— Rob and the Loomio team
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