[p2p-research] Donation Networks

[paola.dimaio at gmail.com]

Samuel

I have recently become a member of freecycle
and what I see is fantastic

http://www.freecycle.org/

old things get used up by others, then passed on
from spare parts to furniture, books, household items to the oddest
thing around (offered /wanted)



also, we have developed a drupal based tool
www.p2paid.org which is free to use, open source if you want to
install on your servers and change the config/GUI etc

hope useful pointers

best
PDM

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear P2P Research,
>
> After some months working privately with agent based Altruism and
> Cooperation models, I am working towards initiating an experiment with with
> a small number regional and continental participants in creating a balanced
> donation and distribution system.
>
> The system is fairly simple:
>
> Participants list what they need, and fill mutual needs. Each person
> maintains a "reputation" that is based on a "thank you" that is received
> from the person they have donated to.  A tracking system monitors the
> "carrying capacity" of donations. "thank you" assignments to participants
> are monitored, and so too are receipts of donations. Optionally, each
> participant may also register their own satisfaction with the system as a
> whole.
>
> Total satisfaction, plus a "thank you" (which is seen in the system as
> individual satisfaction with what is donated) compared against satisfactory
> receipt of donations (where you "thank" the other person, and thus add to
> their rating), and a certain base level of overall needs met,  would then
> give feedback to each user, showing that they may need to donate more, or
> improve the quality of what they are giving to others, in order to maintain
> total "health" of the system.
>
> In the United States, this is my proposal as a route for people to
> distribute regulated goods like food items, fuel production/ingredients, etc
> in way that is legal, and that avoids "market" exchanges (it is legal to
> donate or give items to one another in the fashion proposed above).
>
> As local food systems, and open product design/fabrication activity is
> already increasing, myself and others are seeing the above as a plausible
> way to pool and share resources. Your thoughts are appreciated.
> --
> Sam Rose
> Social Synergy
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>
>
> "When a distinguished elderly scientist states that something is possible,
> he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible,
> he is very probably wrong."
>
>    Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law
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