LETSGetTogetherJanuary2007

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LETSGetTogether again to discuss and collaborate on information systems for community currencies and local goods exchange.

When: 25th January 2007 7pm - 9pm

Where: The Map Room at LimehouseTownHall - http://twenteenthcentury.com/lth/

What to discuss:

It's been a while since the last Get Together, LETSGetTogetherAugust2005. It would be good just to catch up and find out what's interesting to each other now.

Some of us (Tav, Saul, Jo) are planning an implementation of a collective exchange system as part of the "24 days" project, an ttending

• ------experimental collaborative and resource-sharing environment. The "Plexchange" system is based on a "trust map" of connections between different participants in different contexts.

It would be great to be able to get feedback on the design, and suggestions about the interfaces, from others involved in community currency systems development either at a design or implementation level.

If you have topics or projects you would like to specifically discuss please leave a note of them on this wiki page.

Attending: Jo, Earle, Fabian, Mary, Woody, Kamran, Warren, Greenman, Mamading, Saul

[edit] Notes

If you took notes at the meeting, please paste or link them from this page.

Jo's notes: http://frot.org/notes/lgt/200701/

Mamading's brief notes - perhaps people might expand on them

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• Introductions
• Mary talks briefly on the history of LETS and Timebanks, with some discussions of issues.
• Mary discusses the idea of a track record, recording the things that people have done without necessarily assigning a value/amount to it.
• Peter mentions Curitiba as being one of the best places to live in the world due to the community mindedness.
• Jo talking about how trust might play a role in community currencies/exchange systems. A model that she is working on involves a contract attached to time and space, which has been likened to Ricardian Contracts. "A chain of holding to account" Six degrees of derivation/separation.
• Mary: How do you find someone in the system who can solve the problem or who has the skill I need?
• Cameron: Is this Karma we are talking about?
• Jo: Description of letterboxing. Stamps are a kind of currency.
• Peter: Designing a non-tradable currency for a trust/reputation system for teaching.
• Mamading: Dunbar number and the implications for a finite number of slots/connections to others in the context of what Peter was saying.
• Earle: punchscan/semacode - time-unique tokens. could be used for things like ticketing for the theosophical society.