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Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris Caston Jul 27.
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- How are you currently involved with the Community Exchange Network?
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- What's the full name of your Exchange? Answer N/A if you are not yet an Admin or User.
- Cape Town Talent Exchange
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- http://www.ces.org.za
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- +27 83 354 9374
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US National Debt Clock: Real Time
Posted on July 31, 2009 at 3:45pm — 1 Comment
Credit and Debit Limits
What are credit and debit limits and why do we need them in a community of givers and receivers promoting the notion of abundance? Surely limits create a shortage of the currency, taking us back to debt-based conventional money where those of us who are short of the stuff have to borrow it from those who have a surplus?
Credit and debit limits are absolutely essential for the health of an exchange. In the CES we do not impose 'hard' limits where the system stops… Continue
Posted on July 28, 2009 at 11:35am — 2 Comments
I Want My Bailout Money
Posted on January 18, 2009 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment
Hegemoney
Rulers learned very early on that those who control money ultimately control ev… Continue
Posted on November 10, 2008 at 10:05pm — 1 Comment
Crdit crunch humour
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The Banktron
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Uncertainty hits Japan
In the last seven days, Origami bank has folded, Sumo Bank has gone belly up and Bonsai Bank has announced plans to cut some of its branches. Yesterday, it was also announced tha… Continue
Posted on October 16, 2008 at 4:30pm —
Comment Wall (24 comments)
- At 12:28pm on November 07, 2009, Sergey Kibalnikov gave Tim Jenkin a gift…
- From the Gift Store
- At 12:23pm on November 7, 2009,
Sergey Kibalnikov said…
- Dear Tim,
Very nice to meet you! Thanks a lot and thanks for CES idea. We do the similar project in Russia. It base on Internet & RFID cards. We are the members of coop community. I have been at ICA-expo in Lisbon. Looking url>>>
Thank you for any comments!
- At 9:19am on November 5, 2009,
Ruby van der Wekken said…
- Dear Tim,
Apologies if you receive this twice.
I am asking for help with uploading a photo onto our ces page - someone suggested there might be a problem with the path given? Can you please send the path to me anew? I am sorry to bother with such detail.
Otherwise we are set to have our first information evening in our communityhall on the 16th of this month. It has worked very well to translate important parts into Finnish!
- At 2:12pm on October 27, 2009,
Ruby van der Wekken said…
- Dear Tim,
Yes, thank you, we will continue with our timebanking. One hour of labour is set at 10 Kumpenni.
Then : We have been unable to upload a photo onto the front page of our kpne exchange. Someone who understands coding says there is something missing in the coding of the example given, which we tried to copy? Can you help?
- At 8:25am on October 15, 2009,
Ruby van der Wekken said…
- Dear Tim,
Thanks a lot and thanks to CES for all sofar - the CES system you are offering is a great tool! I have a question, a question I probably would find an answer too would I better read the available material, but I ask it anyway: We want our local currency Kumpenni to express hours of work. 10 Kumpenni would be one hour of work. I was thinking this time reference (time banking?) was a system majorly used, but perhaps this is not so? I realised this when I came upon a listing with all currencies part of the CES network, and saw that most were pinned to national currency, in any case not expressed as hours or minutes. Our group is then a bit stuck on how to think of the different services. Everybodys hour of labour is worth as much. This is a great principle. But how to go about it if in some cases one anyway wants to be able to charge a bit also for the mental preparations a given service requires. Do we then just say : "I give you legal advice for half an hour for 5 kumpenni, but it takes me another half an hour to prepare my assistance, so I charge you 10 kumpenni for my half an hour with you" - or how would one go about it? Is it so that most systems actually just work on an agreement between buyer and seller of the amount of community currency debited? But how then does a system sort of harmonise the exchanges? Thank you for any comments!
- At 10:18pm on September 24, 2009,
Liesl Jobson said…
- Hi Tim,
I'm most eager to see this system work and will start tomorrow, hopefully, as somebody has sought my assistance. I'm finding my way around the site.
Bst,
Liesl
- At 12:49pm on July 31, 2009,
Charles Drumond Malcolm Fraser said… - Least path algorithm survey & polling system plan.
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 23:32 — de Chardin
Humanity desperately needs to practice intelligence en masse.
Second-order cybernetic distractions; geological, cultural and linguistic biases; corrupt human organization experiments. First order cybernetic systems can be observed directly due to the observer being outside of the system under analysis. Second-order cybernetic systems incorporate the observer and need specific methodology to secure functional steerage. Human society is second-order in relation to any human. You can quickly categorize most second-order distractions as those supposed "things" that are capitalized, proper nouns, in the midst of a sentence. "The name is not the thing" Bateson; "The map is not the territory" Korzybski; a viable governing system needs to work with cogent data.
Least path algorithm recurrent polling and survey system could provide viable organization through direct timely processing of meaningful data.
Design Features:
1. All volunteer
2. Allotted reasonable time for every human to participate
3. Quick continuous turnover of prioritized concerns
4. All peer acephalous small groups chain conferencing
5. Coordinated bartering and sharing, no money necessary
6. Representation selection based on demonstrated ability
7. Selected representatives protected by scaled anonymity
8. Representatives have a fixed short time before reformulation
9. Facilitates maximum sustainable class mobility
10. All-sum or win-win scenario as opposed to zero-sum processing
11. Bottom-up grass roots system
Peer to peer collaboration software is possible and currently exists. Open source Python software language provides rich inherent data management to facilitate minimal need for server computers. It has proved itself as the initial software used to share files via torrents, likely the major portion of all traffic on the internet. It runs on virtually any operating system. It has excellent clarity and documentation features for on-going open source development.
Team:
Three Python programmers w/ expertise in each of the three major personal computer operating systems.
One Python knowledgeable quality control coordinator/technical-writer/marketer.
Coordinator starts one-half month ahead of rest of team and recruits team members over this time.
8 hours a day, 5 days a week for first 3 months of programmers time
After development support: at least 24 hours over three days within 2 days of notice per week if necessary up to 12.5 months after commencement.
During support term: worker can engage in other income activities but be willing to work up to 24 hours a week for pressing issues as they develop for last 9 months of project.
Cost: $51,000 per worker for a year, $2,125 every half month plus coordinator first payment of $2,125.
If system appears operating and bug free after 10 months total remaining balance due would be paid to each worker.
Further development would be relegated to open source community.
Total cost of potential viable global social system tool: $206,125
Basic tool would be delivered in 3.5 months time from securing funds.
For details on the specific network topology to be used see http://www.mindsing.org/SocialTheoryDevelopmentPortal.html
- At 11:18am on May 10, 2009,
oNewhouse said… - Hi Tim, thanks very much for your site and wonderful efforts. Would like to discover more of you as a network friend.
Warmly,
- At 11:16am on March 20, 2009,
Deirdre Kent said… - Thanks Tim. You left this message ages ago and I have only just read it and followed your instructions. I notice they either have hours or minutes and we are thinking of a quarter of an hour as a unit. Is this doable too?
- At 12:54am on February 10, 2009,
Les Squires said… - Tim, I'd like to suggest that the wording on http://www.community-exchange.org/badlogon.htm be changed from "You are not authorised to view this page!" to something softer like "Login is required to view this page..."
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COGS stands for Circle of Gifts, and is a complementary currency specifically designed to help local communities re-localise activities. The aim of re-localisation is to provide inhabitants with the possibility of an acceptable quality of life when traditional economic development fails, or their circumstances are against them.
We believe complementary currencies will become more important as energy supplies dwindle and impact the economic growth so essential for inter… Continue
Posted by Stephen Hinton on October 5, 2009 at 9:00am — 3 Comments
Mobilising The Real Wealth of Community - An Article by Alana Tobin
Posted by Alana on September 15, 2009 at 3:18am
US National Debt Clock: Real Time
Posted by Tim Jenkin on July 31, 2009 at 3:45pm — 1 Comment
The Method by which the Federal Reserve creates money out of nothing;
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Posted by Richard on July 30, 2009 at 7:30pm
Credit and Debit Limits
What are credit and debit limits and why do we need them in a community of givers and receivers promoting the notion of abundance? Surely limits create a shortage of the currency, taking us back to debt-based conventional money where those of us who are short of the stuff have to borrow it from those who have a surplus?
Credit and debit limits are absolutely essential for the health of an exchange. In the CES we do not impose 'hard' limits where the system stops… Continue
Posted by Tim Jenkin on July 28, 2009 at 11:35am — 2 Comments
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