[p2p-research] About Plantare and Troco

[Michel Bauwens]

Great projects Vicente,

I'll give you access to the wiki in a separate email,

this certainly also warrants a mention in our blog, would you prefer to
present the projects separately, or together?

In the wiki, the different projects should be presented separately however,

let's keep in touch about your progress!!

Michel

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado <vjrj at ourproject.org
> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> First of all, we would like to thank you indeed for your hard work
> promoting the Commons and P2P forms of production and organisation. We
> are the group behind ourproject.org and we would like to give some
> diffusion to some of our P2P initiatives. We believe that the P2P
> Foundation Wiki is the appropriate forum to do so.
>
> In the first place, we launched an organic seed bank where we would like
> to encourage the decentralised exchange of seeds. We have designed the
> website
>
> http://plantare.ourproject.org/en/
>
> an initiative inspired in peer-to-peer, copyleft and the Wat System.
> Following our web, our goals are:
>
>    * Encouraging, spreading and formalising the decentralised and
> autonomous exchange of seeds between individuals and collectives
>    * Circulate our store of seeds
>    * Creating a mechanism by which other people/collectives can also
> obtain and exchange seeds
>    * Possibility of exchanging seeds with people you don’t know
> directly or who live far away
>    * Possibility of more enriching exchanges (e.g. different seed
> varieties, sharing work experiences, etc)
>    * Boosting biodiversity
>
> Besides, we seek to allow any person/collective to adapt it:
>
> http://plantare.ourproject.org/en/adaptar/
>
> and use our seed currency in a decentralised way (such as the Wat System
> does).
>
> Looking to the future, we have been also experimenting with a digital
> version of this promissory note, building an implementation using the
> new Google Wave platform:
>
> http://troco.ourproject.org
>
> Troco attempts to encourage the exchange of any goods, taking benefit of
> digital cryptography tools. Moreover, in order to support it we have
> developed:
>
> http://karma.ourproject.org/
>
> to allow ratings of participants. Thus, individuals have a public
> trust/reputation rating: everybody can know what others think about any
> participant in the exchange network (especially useful considering debt
> circulation).
>
> On the other hand, personally I participated as speaker in the seminar
> on P2P:
>
>
> http://medialab-prado.es/article/programa_del_seminario_4_encuentro_inclusiva-net_redes_y_procesos_p2p
>
>
> http://medialab-prado.es/article/mesa_redonda_redes_p2p_derecho_filosofia_tecnologia_politica
>
> Finally, I would like to point out that we have an association promoting
> The Commons:
>
> http://comunes.org/en/
>
> Could you provide us some access to the P2P Foundation Wiki in order to
> be able to link our initiatives? Though maybe you prefer to do that
> yourselves...
>
> Thanks for your time. Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado
> Ourproject.org Team
>
>


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