[p2p-research] Drupal project for Complementary Currencies

[Michel Bauwens]

according to bernard lietaer, the SOL scheme in france, which has recently
been opensourced, already does all that, lets, time banks and a third
mechanism which I forgot,

Michel

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Chris Watkins
<chriswaterguy at appropedia.org>wrote:

> FYI: a Drupal project for Complementary Currencies<http://drupal.org/project/marketplace>
>
>
>  Perhaps because community currencies can undermine traditional power
>> structures, governments and foundations have rarely invested in them.
>> Consequenntly most schemes still rely on paper or spreadsheets; they do not
>> scale well and young people can't be bothered with bits of paper any more.
>>
>> This is an all_embracing and flexible package which goes the extra mile
>> for you. The main module is transactions, which provides a payment form and
>> a transaction contentType and exposure to views. There are many several
>> views, blocks, actions, etc. Then there are supporting modules such as the
>> offers/wants directory (a simple classified ads<http://drupal.org/project/ed_classified>module), a contentType for acknowledging community participation (comparable
>> to Kudos <http://drupal.org/project/kudos>) import tools, and more. See
>> here for a template custom module<http://marketplace.matslats.net/installing>
>> .
>> Note the module is 'dev' It has been implemented (see below), but a few
>> more features are needed to make version 1 widely useful.
>>
>> There is some overlap between this project and userpoints but marketplace
>> is much more specific in its intent. This is not a shop, cart, or ecommerce
>> system. It is aimed primarily at classical LETS schemes, but by tweaking a
>> very few parameters, I believe it can be used for similar currency
>> mechanisms such as timebanks. This module is under active development.
>>
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