🌟 Project Introduction

Gustav

Hey all, my name is Gustav I'm originally from Denmark

My purpose with community currencies is enabling a fair and sustainable care economy, currently I'm focusing on collaborations between complementary projects in the community currency space via the CCA initiative.

I'm most active on twitter and occasionally on https://www.gustav.tech/

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WillRuddick

🌟 1. Hey all, my name is Will I'm originally from California but have lived in Kenya for 12 years

🌱 2. My purpose with community currencies is enabling a fair and sustainable care based economy, currently I'm focusing on the work of Grassroots Economics and Red Cross in Kenya helping to pilot and test Community Inclusion Currencies

🖥 3. I'm most active on twitter @wor and occasionally on http://grassecon.org/blog
more on gitlab https://gitlab.com/grassrootseconomics/cic-docs/-/blob/master/README.md

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atenorio

🌟 1. Hi! my name is Antonio, I am a free software developer and researcher based in Madrid

🌱 2. I am currently researching the how to design rewards and incentives for academic peer reviewing for Decentralized Science project and trying to promote this debate online (visit our forum). I think community currencies are a great source of inspiration and knowledge. I've been partially involved in local community currencies in Madrid (La Canica) and online/blockchain (faircoin).

🖥 3 You can reach me at antonio@decentralized.science and follow our project's twitter @decent_science and newsletter. I also have a boring website.

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Julio

🌟 1. Hola! My name is Julio, I am originally from Guatemala but have lived in Taiwan for six years, one in London and in Berlin for two. I am an economic anthropologist, currently volunteering as Social Outreach for the Basic Income Earth Network.

🌱 2. My purpose with community currencies is to create Universal Basic Income systems from the bottom-up, allowing communities to democratize wealth, care for each other and the ecology around them in a more sustainable way. I am currently focusing on community organising in Berlin, working on Circles UBI (circles.garden / www.joincircles.net )

🖥 3. I'm most active on twitter @Julio_Linares_ and occasionally on laborislove.se

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aleeza

🌟 1. Hello! My name is Aleeza, I'm usually in NYC & Berlin... I wear many hats.

🌱 2. I love to learn by doing & I think this is the heart of alternative currencies: They allow people to be proactive & experiment with a diversity of economic models and monetary systems. Currently I am working on a platform for mutual credit, the goal is to make it more accessible & scalable (Trustlines). I am also helping with a decentralized tool for proving "unique identity" (BrightID). I got into alternative currencies through my research/advocacy on universal basic income, and I'm involved with a few groups related to this as well (UBI Research & Hedge for Humanity & US Basic Income Guarantee Network)

🖥 3. You can talk to me on twitter where I am @aleezagroks. Also here's a link to my Ronin Institute profile.

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jeffemmett

🌟 1. Hello! My name is Jeff, and I alternate between van life on the west coast of Canada and travelling to where the most exciting work on community currencies takes place.

🌱 2. I see CCs as one of the highest leverage intervention points for systemic change, offering a future of monetary permaculture (which is just so obviously needed, when you stop and think about it). With the new tools at our disposal via Web3 tech, and the new ways we can simulate & test our system designs, I think the CC movement is ripe to offer real solutions to a world that desperately needs them. I work with the Commons Stack, BlockScience, and multiple other projects to move the mission forward however I am able.

🖥 3. On twitter I can be found @jeffemmett, and most of my writing can be found on medium.com/@jeffemmett

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Ggrace

Hello my name is Grace. I live in Switzerland, born in Venezuela, raised in USA and Dutch citizen. I am a Coalitions 4Good activist. I believe in the power of collaboration and common objectives.
My purpose is to place emerging technologies at the service of Humanity and that journey took me to Community Currencies. Personally, I believe this is the REAL solution to empower communities and create prosperity FOR THEM. My work in Blockchain for Humanity is focused on enabling socio-economic impact. My goal is to create the means for any community to implement it easily and be self-reliant. I would like to scale the Grassroots's model worldwide and support these communities with education and training.
I am active-sh in twitter @gracetorrellas or the Blockchain4Humanity Telegram group.

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mwl

🌟 1. I'm Michael Linton, living on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada where I started LETSystems in 1982.

🌱 2. My purpose with community currencies is the end of monetary poverty, for the effects of this on social, political, environmental and spiritual poverty.

🖥 3. For reference, my first computer in 1963 - a Monte Carlo simulation of oil tanker traffic and queuing in the Mersey (crash). Some archives, then progress and development, leading to present foci. Reach me at mwl@lets.net and/or telegram @om_mwl.

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matslats

I am Matthew Slater a.k.a matslats. Building Drupal sites for community currencies since 2008.
I was a nomad for a decade and got to know and work with many activists and cc luminaries in the movement around the world, also running workshops and giving talks.
In 2015 I so-authored the Credit Commons white paper
In 2016 I co-authored the Money & Society MOOC which around 500 completed.
I now write a six-monthly newsletter with links about the monetary developments in world history.
Also working with a team in UK to implement the credit commons as a solution to post-COVID recession.
Working on a book about monetary mechanics.
More on my website including audiobooks.

asimong

🌟 1. My name is Simon Grant and my username in lots of places (including gmail) is asimong.
🌱 2. What is your purpose with community currencies ? I'm interested in everything commons and P2P, as well as various other things I've worked on like learning technologies. Here, one of my interests is to see how a collaborative effort can produce a useful knowledge commons about community currencies. I'm a long-term collaborator on P2PF wiki.
🖥 3. Where can we learn more about you ? "asimong" in most places - "Asimong" in Wikipedia and P2PF Wiki. I have a rambling, rather outdated web page at http://www.simongrant.org/home.html

By the way, what software is being used for this wiki?

jzartler

🌟 1. Hi everyone my name is Jessica Zartler, and I am a nomad who recently smuggled myself into Canada 😉 Originally from Florida but have been living abroad for 8 years - Thailand/Germany/Japan/Ecuador/Norway... Jack of all trades, master of none.

I am a tech anthropologist, journalist, researcher, strategist & community cross-pollinator who often lands in the role of "translating" between various communities/lexicon to share stories and bring the attention and focus to the context & "why" of projects, weaving ideas together for more ecological and holistic approaches.

🌱 2. While researching some time ago, started going down the 🐰hole of community currencies and see this as one of the highest leverage ways to affect change in our values systems and support individuals (including me!) and communities to liberate themselves to create and exist freely.

Currently working with several open-sourced non-profits: CommonsStack.org, VerusCoin.io (Public Blockchains as a Service), cadCAD.org hopefully more soon with 1Hive.org & Grassroots Economics and the CCA! Look forward to getting to know you all and sharing the stories of these projects/movements 🙏🏼🌱🍄

🖥 3. Online search will bring some random results/Linkedin not so updated/Twitter or say hi on Telegram @jessicazartler 😁 Recently became a contributor on Hacker Noon

Patrick-T-Anderson

🌟 I seek patterns that enable abundance.
🌱 I am on a small team developing a business model to change how groups buy, own and use land.
🖥 Product-Futures-Foundation.github.io or Twitter.com/Patrick_T_Ander or T.me/patrick_t_anderson

cyprien

🌟 1. Hola! I'm Cyprien, I'm an economist by formation, a product guy by trade and a token engineer at heart. Now in Canada after a few years in Mexico. I currently lead the product and cryptoeconomics teams at Beem, a new social network for premium video (think twitch for VOD).

🌱 2. I'm currently researching the diverse architectures for community currencies, with a focus on the digital communities of the passion economy.

🖥 3. I'm @vntrp pretty much everywhere, but you can check out my latest paper on stochastic valuation of revenue-collecting tokens: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3639911
Also, this article about the big projects we're undertaking with the Token Engineering community: https://medium.com/@vntrp/token-engineering-review-assessing-early-stage-token-economies-16b5a19e83fb

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hfhoyer

🌟 1. Hallo! I am Hans-Florian from Freiburg / Germany. I worked from 1987-2013 at https://www.gls.de/privatkunden/gls-bank/ueber-uns/ (sorry, German only) in the back-office (Accounting, reporting to central bank, database queries, co-worker spokesman). Before I wrote software for architects and engineers and was an assistant lecturer in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Rittel 's Institute for the foundation of planning.
As an anthroposopher I studied the ideas of Rudolf Steiner about the threefold organization of society, economy and money.

🌱 2. My question is: What would be the appropriate "money" for a comming society? Money has been and will be entirely man-made. So a look into the history helps -at least me- to understand. Since my retirement I am dedicated to this topic. One sub-topic is UBI, which I consider as a consequence of the division of labour (DL). As Adam Smith stated, DL is the main source of wealth of a nation, which of course is also correct for mankind on earth.
My reading in old books resulted in two quotes:

Gustav von Schmoller stated this (1890): "Mainly, however, if a full division of labor is to take place somewhere, social institutions must provide maintenance, food, clothing and housing for those, who devote all their labor to others".
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Johann Karl Rodbertus wrote (₁₈₄₀): "The division of labour could just as well be called the division of the result, because this concept is only the necessary complement to the former".
#1 is, where UBI comes in, as a duty of society, a social institution in it's own interest.
#2 is a question of business companies, leading to income as a share of profit.

🖥 3. I share my findings in old books in my FB-Timeline. I use FB groups also to be informed about money questions of various shades ;-)
There is a Prezi (German only), which I produced for an attac group. https://prezi.com/view/GOEhY7cMSCHIjAeBd9nk/