hey Lisa + PLUG,
Ive worked a lot in this area, mainly with Community Currencies.
It's a good thing because you can utilize excess equipment and grows
social networks as well, because the transactions build up trust. I
had been envisioning a skills exchange for a while, but you need basic
nucleus of people who 1) understand the premise, 2) have skills/goods
to trade. Lets see how many people are interested. If you've got 10
people, then you can start a trading community. Theres other aspects
such as, do you want to implement monetary units etc. So if we can
get 10 responses here, we should start a SIG and go from there.
Starting your own site may alienate people and to have a good trading
community you have to make sure youre as inclusive as possible and
everyone agrees the rules are standardized. Political views,
religion, wealth status all act as dividers in the trading community,
and can stunt it and kill it off. I think the general economic
conditions may be right for this.
There was for instance a downtown phx currency. Didn't do well
because it was a fairly insular group that didnt really adequately
instate the currency. Not enough people felt it was reliable and it
failed. Its still around and you can buy your coffee with it, but
didnt really reach critical mass. They could go for round 2, but the
public image will be weak. So the choice to just take initiative not
only effected the currency negatively, but the future possibility of
one for the area.
I personally know the guy who built the LETS / community currency
module for Drupal and was involved with it in its early stages. I
also know some other major names in this field. Ive worked a lot with
the premier open source community currency platform, Cyclos (which is
J2EE based).
If you're serious about starting a barter community we should move
forward with all interested parties. Its critical to get buy in from
EVERYONE at all stages.
-jmz
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Lisa Kachold <
lisakachold@obnosis.com> wrote:
> I will setup a website for it on my drupal on it-clowns.com!
>
>
> On 12/26/09, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd be interested in starting a barter network... jmz
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Toss it on the junkheap!
>>>
>>> Can't help you right now!
>>>
>>> Too bad they don't have a freegeek.org here?
>>>
>>> On 12/26/09, mike havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hey all; as you may know I am trapped in the world of windows at the
>>>> moment
>>>> but would like to break free of the M$ shackles. Would anyone happen to
>>>> have
>>>> a computer on which Linux will work they would be willing to part with?
>>>> It
>>>> can be a Windows 98 box for all I care! I gave my b rother a ride home
>>>> today
>>>> and he gave me his non working computer. So I brought it home and plugged
>>>> it
>>>> in. Nothing! No post... no beep... not even the flicker of a light
>>>> indicating life. I'm thinking that it could be the power supply (he was
>>>> having power surges) but it might be the 'soft switch' (this computer is
>>>> from '99). If it might be power supply and someone has one could I test
>>>> out
>>>> my theory?....
>>>> specs:
>>>> compaq power supply
>>>> part number: 124892-001
>>>> input= 115V~/9A, 230V~/5A
>>>> output= +5V===/22A, +3.3V===/14A
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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