After 18 months developing (since Drupal 7 was released), I can't wait to put Community Accounting version 3 to reach production. The need for this software, I believe is more than ever, and awareness of it too, is growing. In four years dedication I've seen the competition fall away, and the main obstacles to implementing grass-roots exchange systems is no longer technical, but political. In Drupal 6 the following has been achieved:
- 350 Timebanks USA using the module, who have released an open source Drupal distribution
- Community Forge has 3000 users across 100 installations which form a trading network, including around a group of around 20 SEL in Wallonia, Belgium.
- Voume of Trade in Geneva alone is comparable to Berkshares
- Drupal.org reports 3500 downloads, and 250 installations (this doesn't count Timebanks USA)
- Routes des SEL, the French couchsurfing network has another 3000 users.
Looking towards Drupal 7 implementations, I'm involved in conversations with many grass roots groups including
- Common Good Finance are working with Drupal after investing several months in Cyclos.
- Apres, Geneva's social Chamber of Commerce and Transition Geneva
- Transition Towns UK Reconomy project
- LETSlink UK
- SELidaire (National LETS group in France)
- FEASTA, a monetary reform group in Ireland
- CES, the largest community exchange network
And I'm fielding enquiries all the time. There are many conversations about implementing in Australia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Siberia, Spain, Canada, New Zealand, Portugal.
Drupal is now capable of running Community Way, by plugging into Michael Linton's openmoney (alpha) accounting database, and integration with Open-Transactions is under consideration. Michael Linton's openmoney alpha database can now be used and am looking at connecting to Opentransactions software.
This is not all my own work though! These achievements and future ones are only possible with close alliances. Namely with Tim Anderson and Jem Bendell of Community Forge, Marie from the Belgian SEL, other technicians who compensate for my extreme specialisation in Drupal, and various testers and implementers and donors; and others who amplify the message.
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