In 2019 many things happened in and around Kanthaus. In the first week of January 2020 Lise, Janina and I took the time to go through last year's CoMe minutes, chat logs and photos to compile a short review. Here's what we got.

2019 in numbers

(2018 for comparison)

• 208 unique people (252)

• 3798 nights spent (3652)

• 18.26 nights per person (14.49)

• 10.41 people per day (10.01)

• 44 evaluations (61)

• 13.12 kwh electricity per day (6.00)

• 53 liters water per day (47 liters)

• 970 m³ gas (1318 m³)

• 15 Kanthausians (+2)

  • 11 Members (+5)

Slack messages

5200 slack messages in 11 channels -> 11.5 messages per day (2018: 4200 messages)

January

• association meetings
• chandi became member
• lise became member
• winter of karrot
• KMW welding for TÜV
• utopival meeting
• month of calm starts!
• beginning of dinner lottery
• basement storage moved from K22 to K20, triggered start of Wupp Hours
• talks about project pressure and gender roles
• Bodhi's and Tais' backstory
• birth of uavcan-web a.k.a kanthaus-server web interface
• 3d printer and cnc mill arrived

February

• snow!
• clara and nick became volunteers
• foodsharing board meeting
• foodsharing hackweek
• we bought a scaffolding
• luisa visited us and told us about Villa Locomuna money systems
• don't-ocracy session
• money proposals session
• WIFI access in K22
• play fight session
• findus cat painting in sleep kitchen

March

• roof tile pickup
• foodsharing-auf-festivals vorbereitungstreffen
• BUND müllsammelaktion
• foodsharing t-shirt printing
  
• preparing for roof renovations
• undjetzt-meeting
• kitchen drying rack
• start of food rationing system
• free shop progress
• compost toilet prototype

April

• open tuesday opening video
• more rainwater collection!
• bufdi start
• jar size norm introduced

May

• new logo
  
• foodsharing extended board meeting
• move planning meeting
• mdr spot about foodsharing with nathalie video
• we got the apple tree
• the dumpster food dishwasher was installed
• ukuvote about the roof
• private shoe shelf
  
• undjetzt and utopival meeting in almost empty kanthaus
• move building week in harzgerode
• foodsharing festival planning meeting

June

• nathalie became member!
• thore became member!
• clara became member!
• ende gelände audio engineering meetup
• radio mephisto recorded clara for a report about kanthaus
• kaffeekränzchen #2 in kanthaus
• the fight against the moths started
• the high shelves were built in K22
• move planning meeting

July

• kanthaus mostly empty due to move and auerworld
• inventaire + opendata week
• family room emerged
• lighting killed the house bus

August

• lots of food and stuff arrived from auerworld, foodsharing festival and highfield
• the highbed and elephant appeared in the elephant room
  
• new wifi setup

September

• hosting of FFF Wurzen meetings started
• many kanthausians participated in FFF Wurzen's die-in
• almost all kanthausians went to climate strike in Leipzig
• A lot of building, deconstructing, rearranging, painting, fixing (hipster room, moomins, bitumen-roof, attic-wood, staircase, Möbelfundus...)
• tilmann put a lot of work in attic & hipster room
• the 1st ever MCM (mega/meta/master coordination meeting to plan a whole year)
• Sommerfest: We celebrated our first Sommerfest with ~40 people, disco soup, live music, fire and fancy lights! :D
• Lise and Silvan saved a lot of food from the food bank in Grimma and established good contact to them

October

• Nathalie reorganized the freeshop sorting room & later made a cafe out of it
• Cups were moved to the living room
• Silvan storage is emptied and renamed as baby bathroom!
• money focused-sharing circle
• Schaukasten got destroyed
• Thore and Nathalie brought a Brotkorb

November

• heating started again!
• scaffolding teardown video
• implementing of knowledge sharing session by maxime
• We had the first ever sleeping arrangements plenum and it was very beneficial with so many people here
• while group was here we needed to find solutions for sleeping (private communal, bunk bed built)
• generally calm month related to topics, but quite a lot of groups & visitors

December

• more partying-going out (bar night, villa klug evenings, kitchen parties)
• lots of sorting (after tries from tilmann & doug, bodhi finishes the intermediate storage, winter section), improving (bike locks, soap holders)
• got less and less people
• day of light with great outcome
• LAN-Christmas
• New Year's Eve