📊 N.E.X.U.S. – WORK REPORT

Weekly Overview 28.09. – 05.10.2026

Dear friends,

here once again is the overview of the most important developments of the past week.

This week was once again very busy. What is becoming especially clear by now: N.E.X.U.S. is no longer just growing in terms of content, but is increasingly gaining its own structures, tools, communities, and people who take on responsibility.

At the same time, we are working on making onboarding easier. Because especially for people who are new to us, N.E.X.U.S. should not take months to understand.

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🏠 1. Our Own Community Continues to Grow

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Our community platform is increasingly becoming the central meeting place of N.E.X.U.S.

By now, around 90 people are registered there.

An evaluation of 84 members showed:

11 very active
27 active
23 read along quietly
23 were hardly or not at all active after registering

This made it very clear where we need to improve:

The first contact after registration is crucial.

That is why the onboarding process was completely overhauled.

New members now answer four short questions during registration about their interests, skills, and what they would like to contribute to N.E.X.U.S. In addition, they confirm our Charter.

After that, they land directly in the “Welcome & Orientation” section.

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🤖 2. Nova Accompanies New Members

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Our assistant in the community now has a name:

Nova

Nova welcomes new members personally a few hours after their first visit.

In doing so, Nova takes the information from the registration into account and can say, for example:

“With your experience, Circle 8 – Education might be interesting for you.”

Nova also invites them to introduce themselves in the community and to the weekly welcome call.

The members who had remained quiet until now were also contacted retrospectively.

Every Sunday at 6 PM, there is additionally a short online welcome session for newcomers.

The goal is simple:

No one should register and then be left standing alone in front of a platform.

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🌍 3. Multilingualism Increasingly Becomes Key

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Our international orientation is becoming increasingly practical.

German, English, and Spanish are now not only available on the website and in key documents, but are also deeply integrated into the community.

Posts, comments, wiki pages, as well as voice and video messages can be translated automatically.

This means, for example:

A Spaniard speaks Spanish.
A German can read the content in German.
He replies in German.
The Spaniard receives the answer in Spanish again.

With this, one of the greatest boundaries of international cooperation disappears: language.

With Yusuf, a programmer, the first member who primarily speaks English has now also joined.

This is a small but important step toward a truly international N.E.X.U.S. community.

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📱 4. The Community Platform Has Been Significantly Expanded

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Technically, a great deal was implemented this week.

New features include:

🔹 Video messages up to three minutes with automatic transcript
🔹 Automatic translation of wiki pages and their titles
🔹 Direct participation in ongoing online meetings
🔹 “Now Live” notifications when a meeting of one’s own Circle is running
🔹 Automatic conversion of problematic mobile video formats
🔹 Larger font and better readability on mobile and PC
🔹 Individually customizable start page
🔹 Better integration of online events

Our documents are also now mirrored hourly from the Circles into Nextcloud.

As a result, the community, Nextcloud, and our knowledge system are increasingly growing together into a shared working environment.

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🗺️ 5. Local Communities Become Visible

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Our N.E.X.U.S. map is now live.

On it, people can see where communities or contact persons already exist.

For privacy reasons, only locations or regions are shown—no private addresses.

In addition, members can register as “Seekers” if they are looking for people in their region to start a new community.

Things are also happening in practice:

Würzburg has emerged with Alexander and Bobby.

Düsseldorf is being established with Herbert and Karin.

Santa Cruz in Tenerife is being founded with Tania.

In addition, a dedicated Circle N.E.X.U.S. Tenerife was created to connect local people, enable in-person meetings, and, for example, test local forms of mutual exchange.

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👀 6. N.E.X.U.S. Gets a Public Showcase

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An important new feature is our section:

“From the N.E.X.U.S. Community”

There, selected content from the community can be made publicly visible.

https://community.nexus-terminal.org/nexus-teilen/lesen/schaufenster

In the process, names and personal details are automatically removed.

This allows people from the outside to see:

What is actually being discussed at N.E.X.U.S.?
What are people developing there?
What ideas are emerging?

Members decide for themselves whether their post may be publicly readable.

The principle remains:

Internal stays internal – unless someone explicitly shares it.

The public showcase is also structured so that search engines can find this content. Furthermore, an excerpt of it has been integrated into the homepage of the website.

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📣 7. People Should Be Able to Share N.E.X.U.S. with the Outside World More Easily

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This week, we also built a simple section with social media comments to share.

The idea behind it:

Many people would like to make N.E.X.U.S. more visible, but do not always know what to write under a relevant post.

For this, there are now simple templates for typical situations.

For example, when someone talks about community, new economic models, education, or societal change.

Important in this regard:

Do not spam advertisements.
No salvation promises.
Respectfully address the actual topic.
Pique curiosity.

We deliberately reduced the structure to a few situations so that a helpful tool does not turn into another complicated manual.

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⚙️ 8. AETHER – Our Economic Model Continues to Be Tested

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For everyone who is new here:

AETHER is the economic and distribution model of N.E.X.U.S.

It is not simply about a new currency.

Later, AETHER is meant to answer, among other things:

How are basic needs secured?
How are labor and services exchanged?
How do monetary cycles work?
How do we prevent extreme concentration of wealth?
How does such a system respond to crises and scarcity?

Before anything like this is ever deployed in reality, we want to simulate it and test it under widely varying conditions.

This week, an important milestone was reached in this process:

The second major simulation phase E2 has been completed. Out of originally 90 variants, 24 particularly interesting configurations were selected for further testing.

Now E3 begins, in which, among other things, money supply control is examined in greater detail.

It was also determined that the monthly basic income in VITA stipulated in the Blueprint was no longer accurately represented in the technical development.

This was recognized and is now being corrected before we move forward.

This is precisely why we simulate:

Not to prove that AETHER works – but to find out where it does not work yet.

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🎓 9. Universitas Humana – The Education System Continues to Evolve

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Circle 8 is also continuing to work intensively on our education model Universitas Humana.

At the center of this is not the question:

“How do we make school a little better?”

Rather:

“What does a human being need in order to truly develop?”

This now includes topics such as:

🔹 Combining real-world and digital learning
🔹 Emotional self-regulation
🔹 Personal guidance through AI mentors
🔹 Learning through real projects
🔹 Proof of competence instead of pressure for grades
🔹 Lifelong learning

Also newly added is the idea of first clearly describing our conception of the human being.

Because before we talk about education, we should know what kind of human being this education is actually meant to serve.

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❤️ 10. Health, Care, and Prevention

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Circle 9 is also continuing to develop.

Here, it is explicitly not just about doctors and hospitals.

Rather, the question is:

What keeps people healthy – and how can people care for one another?

This includes nutrition, exercise, prevention, mental health, nursing care, a good living environment, and self-determination over one’s own health data.

Another idea is an open knowledge base for naturopathy and herbal knowledge – a kind of “Garden Pharmacy”.

In addition, thought is being given to how regional care and relief spaces could be established.

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📡 11. Decentralized Communication in Tenerife

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Work is also continuing on our independent communication structure.

In Tenerife, the second radio repeater is now in test operation.

In the process, stable connections could also be established without direct line of sight.

In the long term, this is intended to create a decentralized network through which people can communicate even when conventional infrastructure fails or is unavailable.

This technology is later intended to work together with our OneApp.

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💶 12. Financing Becomes More Transparent

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We also want to become more open regarding financing.

Our running costs for servers, infrastructure, licenses, and AI are currently around 700 euros per month.

In September, this was offset by about 110 euros in income from supporter contributions; the rest is currently still borne by Josh alone.

That is why a “Financing & Transparency” section is being set up.

There, it should become clear:

What is coming in?
What does N.E.X.U.S. cost?
What is the money used for?

In doing so, we initially want to use a shared funding pool via Ko-fi and simultaneously gain supporters and sponsorships.

Working hours can now also be logged directly in the community.

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📅 13. N.E.X.U.S. Calendar 2027

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Our calendar project has also become much more concrete.

There is now a dedicated working Circle for this.

The basic principle:

FEEL and UNDERSTAND

One calendar page is meant to make N.E.X.U.S. emotionally visible.

The second page briefly explains the idea behind it.

The twelve months deal, for example, with community, education, health, AETHER, OneApp, decision-making, supply, and our relationship with nature.

The first edition is intended to combine German, English, and Spanish from the very beginning.

The calendar can simultaneously create visibility and contribute to the financing of N.E.X.U.S.

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🎲 14. Experiencing N.E.X.U.S. Playfully

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There was also a great response to the idea of making N.E.X.U.S. tangible as a game.

Through this, people could experience:

What happens during scarcity?
How do we organize supply?
How do we make decisions together?
What happens when people only think of themselves?
And what changes through cooperation?

An interesting path is emerging here:

First, a board or card game could be created.

This would simultaneously be a practical test for rules and game mechanics before it might later turn into a digital game.

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🤝 15. Very Good Meeting with GemeinWohl-Lobby

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A particularly nice new contact was made with Gerhard Fischer and Marianne Grimmenstein from GemeinWohl-Lobby.

We had an approximately one-and-a-half-hour, very friendly, and inspiring conversation.

In the process, many shared thoughts and points of contact became visible.

There is a desire from both sides to continue the exchange and explore possibilities for collaboration.

A new contact was also established with Manuel Jochas from Thinkpact Zukunft, with interesting overlaps in community, self-organization, and regional resilience.

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📰 16. Communication and Media Are Being Set Up More Broadly

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Responsibility is also beginning to be distributed in public relations.

Elisa and Bobby are now actively working on press relations.

In addition, Jimmy Gerum from LeuchtturmARD initiated a dedicated N.E.X.U.S. Circle on the topic of

“Peace Needs Diversity of Opinion”

It is intended to focus on journalistic ethics, diversity of opinion, and a functioning separation of powers in the information sector.

Critical voices within the community are also deliberately made visible and discussed.

Because N.E.X.U.S. should not become a space where only agreement is welcome.

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🔍 WHAT I TAKE AWAY FROM THIS WEEK

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For me, this week shows very clearly:

N.E.X.U.S. is slowly transforming from a project into a real network.

We now have our own community.

People are beginning to build local communities.

New members are guided more purposefully.

People from different countries can talk to one another without speaking the same language.

Education, health, and economy are being further developed by dedicated Circles.

Our infrastructure is becoming more independent.

And responsibility is slowly beginning to be distributed across multiple shoulders.

At the same time, I see our greatest challenge ever more clearly:

We must not keep creating more and more possibilities while losing people along the way.

N.E.X.U.S. must remain understandable despite its depth.

A newcomer does not first have to understand AETHER, DAO, OneApp, Mesh, or 400 pages of Blueprint.

They should first understand:

Here, people are trying to build a more livable future together – and I can help shape a part of it.

That is exactly what we are working on right now.

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Josh