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Contents 1 Upcoming events 2 Research 3 Links - LETS and alternative currency software 4 Links - potential research directions

[edit] Upcoming events

• LETSGetTogether, August 18th 7.00pm, Limehouse Town Hall

A gathering of people developing open source community exchange systems software, and local groups who are users of or have use cases for this software, working to help develop local projects and data interchange and document the experience. All are welcome!

The first LETSGetTogether was on March 31st 2005, they are (approximately) each month, usually a Thursday evening

[edit] Research

• see also TripleEntryAccounting
• The FacultyOfProblemSolving have done some interesting related work in the area of Nomic and rules-based consensus systems for 'values'
• SirWilliamPetty
• CrEconomicObservatory

[edit] Links - LETS and alternative currency software

This is software that is viable or 'nearly' viable, everything is 'free' (as in beer and speech, in some cases, licensing not clear):

• http://demo.openmoney.org/ php/mysql -tikiwiki based
• http://project.cyclos.org java/hibernate/mysql
• http://uniletim.sourceforge.net/ php/mysql
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/local-exchange/ php/mysql
• http://hughbarnard.org/index.cgi?name=cclite.html perl/mysql
• http://lentils.imagineis.com/cgi-bin/lets/webtool.cgi perl/file storage
• http://copsewood.net/pyletscgi/index.html python/file storage
• http://ecomoney.co.uk php/mysql phpbb based

Please contact creators/maintainers for further info about any of these.

[edit] Links - potential research directions

• Parecon - http://parecon.org/
• Tobin Tax http://www.ceedweb.org/iirp/
• http://www.spatial-econometrics.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem
• http://www.thetransitioner.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=open+money+ecology
• http://atimes01.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GE27Dj01.html