We wish to clarify a few aspects of this process of designing a currency design tool which is a collaboration between Wales Institute for Community Currencies...
john.rogers@...
Nov 1, 2004 1:34 pm
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Emad, Thank you for your thoughtful letter. I think you understand the issues. We'll probably head in the direction you speak. I'm trying not to "overengineer"...
Greetings, community currency designers, ... These are good questions and there are already some good letters written to our listt addressing the questions. My...
Cyfranogi exists as a collective inquiry into three questions: * What does a participatory society look, sound and feel like? * Why do we need one? * How do we...
I'm replying to a thread at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/minciu_sodas_EN/ that is relevant to all of our working groups, and may be of interest to our...
I boldly stated in the introductory blurb to 'cyfranogi' that it would " announce the birth of the participatory society where every citizen feels valued for...
Fellow Currency Designers I have come across a very relevant quote which I think may guide us in our work on currency design. It was written in 1948 by one of...
John, Some reactions. Currency is fundamentally about the future. That is, at its most abstract, "money" represents stored energy and a promise about the ...
Dear Shannon and all Thanks for your interesting observations. First of all to clarify what I meant by saying "This tool is for how we understand things in...
Andrius, A few thoughts. There are at least two, very different, approaches to "law" around thw world. The first is a literalist tradition - where the "law" is...
It's well known there are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who count in binary and those who don't. I wonder if it's the same with money. Certainly...
I very much appreciate everybody's energy. I had to focus on my paid work but was thinking a lot about our letters. It's good to be working in a variety of...
Andrius, A corollary question is to ask "How does law breed unlawfulness?". And a related one, "How does morality breed immorality?". For example, morality as...
To make the connection between your new investigation about law and our other investigation about currency design I wish to quote from Edgar Cahn's (Professor...
I share this letter on some projects we're working on at our lab Minciu Sodas. We're finding connections between social networking, open learning, pattern...
John, I admire and agree with your end goal - but fundamentally may disagree with you on the way forward. I'll cite a few people in my support and hopefully...
LONG MESSAGE INCORPORATING THREE CONTRIBUTIONS We have agreed to forward to the list some offlist comments to me from Shannon Clark and John Gilbert (below)...
Hi, money-creators! Money is difficult because (a) it's been there for longer than I can remember and (b) I know of no other alternatives. I'm "numerically...
lucas.gonzalez@...
Nov 17, 2004 11:54 pm
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Hi, Lucas! ... For regular old money, you can start at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money#History_of_money and read down through to "Fiat Money," and get a...
Hi, Peter! Thanks for your link - wikipedia is a good way to show consolidated knowledge! /me wonders about an encyclopedia of dreams ... Ok, done! Thanks! ...
lucas.gonzalez@...
Nov 18, 2004 9:47 am
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Monday John Rogers and I spoke about timebanks administration software which the Wales Institute for Community Currency wants to build. We're discussing if...
Hi, Andrius! ... You should look into doing it with PHP+MySQL, running through a local HTTP server. Then it would work on the single unconnected Windows ...
Hi Andrius, I think the best choice for building the timebanks administration software would be for sure one of the open sources technologies. I suggest Java...
Question to all 'cyfranogi' 'dancers' on this list. Is it ok to carry on these technical discussions about currency and software in 'public' ? As someone with...
... There have been 1071+1 messages on this list, since 2000. A number of them are dealing with software these days. Personally I think we can deal with...
lucas.gonzalez@...
Nov 19, 2004 12:36 pm
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Dear Children of Money Once upon a time, there was a community made of ten thousand people. They had this old money of theirs, which they called <G-old>, and...
... "Story Teller, Story Teller, NOW I can't sleep!" :) "Sleepless child", said the Story Teller, "I'm not telling you anymore tonight, just like that fine...
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