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CC Magazine picked up!Community Forge has decided to take on the publishing of the CC Magazine and run it as a Community Production. There will be one final issue published by Mark Herpel, the originator of the project. We are appealing for volunteers to help identify content, build relationships, and help with the Desktop publishing. John Rogers of Value For People, has already agreed to write a regular column and we have 2 tentative graphics volunteers!
Local currencies and search engine optimisationWhat do people looking for alternatives to our debt money system, or looking for ways to build up their local communities search for on Google? Insiders seem to cluster around the term Bernard Lietaer coined, "Complementary Currencies" but ten years since the publication of "The future of Money", this term is only used by practitioners themselves, and has yet to enter the public vocabulary.
CC Magazine bites the dust?The Complementary Currency magazine, an attractive monthly offering featuring from all over the web, including a monthly 'new currency roundup', is no more. Mark Herpel, who has been single handedly producing the magazine for over a year, announced on his blog that he has to reduce his workload because of health reasons.
Prep for Grassroots Innovations Complementary Currency workshop
"Provide a one paragraph bio and up to two pages focussing on what innovative about my project"
BioMy aim is to be the designer of the software that runs the mutual credit economy. My work therefore finds me not only designing software, but coding it, helping people use it, consulting about software and CC in general, strategising, building up a public persona, networking, explaining the economy, and promoting CC and good practice within it.
Platform neutral description of architecture for complementary currencies within a social network.
Intent/AudienceThis document is for developers aspiring to build a mutual credit accounting ecosystem in a social network. This is not idle or idealist talk. The Complementary Currencies for Drupal implementation is planned for September release.
Transition Town Conference 2010I only attended for one day, but this is what i learned about currency initiatives within Transition Towns.
Correspondance with the Bank of England (ongoing)I can't find the answer to this question. I understand that the Bank of England is wholly owned by the government. I understand that the National Debt is owed in large part to the Bank of England Does that mean that the National Debt is owed by the government to the government? Is there a paradox here?
The state of CC software, for IJCCRThis report briefly covers the field of non-commercial mutual credit software, discussing the issues and challenges they collectively face in meeting the needs of the movement. The author's purpose is to draw out some themes of collective concern to a few small, under-resourced, and disparate projects which are working along very similar lines, and to encourage discussion. The intention is not to make direct comparisons but to take a higher view, with concrete examples. Disclaimer: The author is the developer of the Drupal module and Co-founder of Community Forge
Community Forge goes Fremium!Ning recently announced that it would stop providing sites for free. Now Community Forge is bucking the trend by switching back to the Fremium model. Are we crazy? How will we survive - especially in this economic climate?
Mutual GuarantorsI read Thomas Greco's 'The end of money and the future of civilization'. He talked about mutual guarantor groups, which are common in microcredit loans. This idea had natural appeal because it's more about trust in people than arbitrary formulae, and it has predecessors in many cultures and works very well.
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