[p2p-research] barter software update

[Samuel Rose]

I did take a look. I personally am not interested in those systems for
a variety of reasons. (using proprietary software, no apparent API,
too centralized, not flexible enough to meet emerging local/unique
needs from what I can tell)

All that being said, it could be a good choice for some

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Matt Boggs <matt at digiblade.com> wrote:
> In my long chat with Gary, we both looked at the historical model of
> published LETS systems since the '80s and some other similar systems. We
> concluded that in these  'paticipatory economies', the core group
> (administrators, etc) would burn out after the membership reached 300-500.
> We also concluded that creating connected 'pods' of 3-500 would keep the
> system going but still be under one main database. Has anyone looked at the
> links to the barter system yet that Gary runs ?
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samuel Rose [mailto:samuel.rose at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:24 AM
> To: Michel Bauwens
> Cc: Matt Boggs; p2presearch at listcultures.org; Thomas Greco -- thg; Bernard
> Lietaer; Jean-François Noubel; Georg Pleger; michael linton
> Subject: Re: [p2p-research] barter software update
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Citizen-oriented approaches, such as LETS, do not seem to scale, but
>> may be useful within the community  ...
>>
>>
>> Michel
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>
> This caught my eye. Got me thinking about when and where there might be
> needs for scaling beyond a local community, and how an flexible architecture
> and governance for community to community systems might realistically look.
>
> I am partly of the opinion that LETS may not really need to scale, and if it
> reaches the point where it needs to, I wonder what a commons maintaining
> route might be for moving forward?
>
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