On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Dirk Bruere <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> wrote:

We are still nowhere near getting a crucial piece of ZS infrastructure - the geographically based skills/business exchange we could integrate with LETS. The fact that there is no off the shelf s/w or social site that does this either means there is no market for it, or there is a huge opportunity. Or maybe I have simply never heard of it.

Thinking back to an article Douglas Rushkoff wrote a while back, let's see what's out there... Established gratis orgs that already do this: http://www.ces.org.za/index.asp#_blank https://hourworld.org/ Open Source Currency: https://github.com/oscurrency/oscurrency Based on Rails, F/OSS timebanking software. Community Forge: http://communityforge.net/ Based on Drupal, implements LETS. Ripple: https://ripplepay.com/ Track obligations through a socnet. This will also be of interest: http://ma.juii.net/blog/time-banking-software-recommendation -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "I am everywhere." -- -- Zero State mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/DoctrineZero ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE