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Matthew Slater commented on Sarah Sabine Stern's video

The Future of Finance, Rebuild21

"At a later Rebuild21 session, an EU FInance minister is subjected to Jem's challenge and painfully reveals she has not the first idea where money comes from. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VpEHb_wBGD8#t=2303s"

Jun 11, 2012

Matthew Slater and Living Mandala are now friends

Apr 15, 2011

Ron Tocknell and Matthew Slater are now friends

Apr 1, 2011

Matthew Slater replied to Heather K's discussion 'Alternative Currencies- Connecting Globally & Regionally- Links:' in the group Nighthawk Traders

"Heather, as one of the founders I would like my organisation, Community Forge, to be considered amongst such projects. http://communityforge.net"

Mar 31, 2011

Matthew Slater replied to Les Squires's discussion 'Introductions and Experiences with Local Currencies' in the group Nighthawk Traders

"I came here looking for a free laptop! My aim is to help build the infrastructure for a digital, community currency economy. I choose as far as possible to live by reciprocal gifting, and not to exchange money. As part of Community Forge, and by…"

Mar 31, 2011

Matthew Slater joined Les Squires's group

Nighthawk Traders

There's perhaps no question I'm asked more often than "What about Local Currencies?" So I'm starting a study group on alternative forms of community trading. Register your interest! Soon we will begin building a prototype.See More

Mar 6, 2011

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Community Currency magazine now out

The Community Currency magazine is offered to the movement as a way of building internal coherence. It is aimed at practitioners and users of alternative and local means of exchange.The magazine is free, but its existence is precarious. Rather than paying journalists with advertising revenue, networkers and experts write for the magazine because they know that's where the audience is. We concentrate on things which are actually happening, not just on ideas and…See More

Nov 18, 2010

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Sarah Sabine Stern commented on Matthew Slater's group 'Local Currency User Group'

"Yesterday evening Tom Greco gave an interview in Vienna. Talking about his book "The End of Money and the Future of Civilization" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFTmZMNIhlc&feature=player_embedded"

Nov 10, 2010

Matthew Slater left a comment for Stella Strega-Scoz

"Stella I wouldn't know how to go about distinguishing threads and requesting posters in the Skype chat to put certain topics over here, for a different, and at the moment much smaller audience. The purpose of the group is to support TT…"

Oct 17, 2010

Stella Strega-Scoz left a comment for Matthew Slater

"as far as i know nobody has mentioned on the skype conf that we have these forums here, or not often enough for me to notice anyhow. what i think might work is to identify threads on there that might be more useful as discussions in here..…"

Oct 17, 2010

Matthew Slater left a comment for Stella Strega-Scoz

"Hi Stella. Which discussions would you like to see in this space. I'm more centred on currency issues than the transition movement, so I haven't really identified who in the movement should be here. I supposed they would find there way."

Oct 16, 2010

Stella Strega-Scoz replied to Matthew Slater's discussion 'backed vs mutual credit currencies' in the group Local Currency User Group

"This is not an either-or thing, nor should we try to create super-currencies that do it all. It is very common for people to be very un-clear about what the 'complementary' of complementary currencies actually means. They are just tools,…"

Oct 16, 2010

Stella Strega-Scoz left a comment for Matthew Slater

"hi Matthew, just joined your group, was talking yesterday with Les to figure out where to have better organised and more 'human' CC discussions, so he suggested this. let's see how many dialoguers we can migrate to here ... :) nice…"

Oct 16, 2010

Matthew Slater commented on Francis Ayley's group 'Fourth Corner Exchange'

"My actual concern is with producing the software to do this. I'm encouraging all small and medium sized projects to migrate to Drupal so we can move forward together on one platform. I'm gathering technical and politial support for this,…"

Oct 7, 2010

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How are you currently involved in the Transition movement?: Tangentally, providing online complementary currency systems

In what ways do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?: transition movement is emerging as the defining network for those interesting in grass roots responses to current global crises

How can you help the growth/acceptance/vitality of the Transition movement? What can YOU teach us? What can your GROUP teach us?: I provide community software, and advice.

Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about the Transition Movement: matslats.net/complementary_currencies/feed

Your Personal Website (if you have one): http://communityforge.net

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Community Currency magazine now out

Posted on November 18, 2010 at 1:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

The Community Currency magazine is offered to the movement as a way of building internal coherence. It is aimed at practitioners and users of alternative and local means of exchange.

The magazine is free, but its existence is precarious. Rather than paying journalists with advertising revenue, networkers and experts write for the magazine because they know that's where the audience is. We concentrate on things which are actually…

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Your knowledge needed for new Complementary Currency database

Posted on October 7, 2010 at 5:17pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Improbable numbers are often trumpeted about the number of complementary currencies in use. Most of the sources for this info have not been updated for a decade. Several other attempts to make a comprehensive directory have fallen far short.

Community Forge's map is the first attempt at a crowd-sourced database, and it's the first to use a proper map! That means YOU can share what you know and bring a little bit of coherence to the movement!

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At 6:07am on October 17, 2010, Stella Strega-Scoz said…: as far as i know nobody has mentioned on the skype conf that we have these forums here, or not often enough for me to notice anyhow. what i think might work is to identify threads on there that might be more useful as discussions in here.. especially the ones that keep repeating..

At 2:19am on October 16, 2010, Stella Strega-Scoz said…: hi Matthew,

just joined your group, was talking yesterday with Les to figure out where to have better organised and more 'human' CC discussions, so he suggested this.

let's see how many dialoguers we can migrate to here ... :)

nice to see your face!