PermaBank Resources

Permabank resources for collaborators

Concepts Development Resources Content

Sites

Comparable

Gifting

• ShareTribe (formerly 'Kassai'- new fork implemented as test-phase deployment of Permabank here!
• Swidjit
• SharedEarth
• Giftflow
• Giftiki
• FreeCycle
• justfortheloveofit
• Friendly Favors
• Neighbor Goods
• Moneyless World
• Favabank

Time Banking

• Banco Del Tiempo Developed in Django/Python that we will likely fork to integrate into Permabank
• Community Weaver
• Time Banks NYC
• Time/Bank by e-flux

Mutual Credit/Barter/Skill Share

• PaySwarm
• Community Forge
• OSCurrency
• SkillShare is website specifically for people to learn and teach, a function that will be available through Permabank.
• Trade School

Crowd Funding

• Ulule Developed in Django/Python that we will likely fork to integrate into Permabank
• Catarse
• CrowdRise
• Indiegogo
• Kickstarter
• RocketHub
• Profounder
• ChipIn
• Crowdcube
• Kiva
• ioby

$USD Payment Gateways

• PaySwarm
• Dwolla
• Square
• WePay
• Stripe - no frills CC processing application

Integrated

• Cyclos currency software (libre, written in Java and uses MySQL) started by the Social Trade Organization
• GETS
• Community Tools
• The Green Light
• ioby

Project-Based Collaboration

• Change by Us Developed in Django/Python that we will likely fork to integrate into Permabank
• OurGoods
• ioby

Community General Listing Services

• Craigslist- free stuff
• Swidjit for Ithaca, NY.

Useful

• play a game that teaches how to administer a local currency, the Social Trade Game, made by the Social Trade Organization.

Instructive Media

Videos

A longer interview with Francis Ayley on LETS.

A lecture by Thomas Greco on community currency.

A lecture by Sergio Lub on time banking.

A lecture by Mark McDonough on time dollars

A nice short overview on community currency.

A TED presentation by Edgar Cahn on time banking.

A TED presentation by Bernard Litaer on complimentary currencies.

The Century of the Self, Part 1, of an excellent 4-part BBC series on the Freudian psychological dimensions of consumer culture and its evolution.

Research

• Chris Cook's Presentations on unitization and Money 3.0.

Tasks

• Create 1-3 sentence summaries for the following entries.
• Add references and resources from Localism and Currency

For more alternative currency resources, check out the Economics page.

Outreach

Developers

• https://twitter.com/#!/nycpython
• http://www.meetup.com/nycpython/
• NYLUGCoding Workshop & Hacking Society Chapter
• http://www.python.org/community/jobs/