Tools for Localisation

Tim Anderson

Building Communities through Real Social

Interaction using currencies

Co-President of

Founder of

Programme :•What is money? Is it libre?•Do we need money to trade?•CommunityForge’s role•What’s next for CForge?•Be a part!

•Money is a proprietary system

•Cash is 5%, 95% digital

•Who distributes it? Source code please?

•What are the costs to community?to solidarity?

•Is it libre ?

What is money ?

GNU | the users (community) have

the freedom to run, copy,

distribute, study, change and improve the

system.

Richard Stallman | These freedoms are vitally important. They are

essential, not just for the individual users' sake,

but for society as a whole because they

promote social solidarity—that is, sharing and

cooperation.

Does money “promote sharing and

cooperation”? •money is scarce

•forces us to compete for it

•controlled by few people with a lot of it

•not managed for the common good

•... human & natural resources are abundant

Do we need money to interact?

•Currency is different from money

•It can be a digital contract, a handshake, an agreement

•It should not be speculative

•It should not be hoarded

•It should flow freely

We need a digital means of exchange

•Bernard Lietaer | a community is a group of people who honor each other's gifts, who can trust that their gifts will be reciprocated some day, in some way.

•Most communities have lost that trust, because we compete for scarce money

•A transparent accounting system builds trust

•Circulating wealth makes us all richer

We all need a community currency

•Design, develop, distribute software to build and manage small-scale Citizen2Citizen exchanges with 50 - 2000 participants

•100 hosted economies on our servers

•400 hosted economies on other servers

•500 Drupal distribution downloads

•8000 Drupal module downloads

•with 400 members

CForge is a community

•Design and build a municipal scale currency system

•Local Economy Network (LEN)

CForge next steps

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A Community Currency strengthens a Local Economy Network

•Collect user stories LEN Stakeholders

•LEN project leaders

•community technical admin

•community managers

•community builders

•community accountants

•community member

CForge Jul 15 - Aug 8

•Collect user stories LEN Stakeholders

• local non-profit organisations

• local food producers

• local commerce

•schools & universities

•mobility solution providers

•arts and culture providers

CForge Jul 15 - Aug 8

•Core group (approx. 10) will map out the user stories

•Chalet in the mountains

CForge Aug 8-12

•with pool 400 Social Economy stakeholders

•Prioritize the list of functions by Stakeholder group, start building

•CF Offering scholarships

CForge Aug 13-20

•Continue to build with other developers

•Come help build the tools to make a more sharing and cooperative Local Economy Network

•Humanity will thank you ;)

CForge Aug 21+