Last updated March 26, 2008.
For more information on this proposal, or to ask questions see http://groups.drupal.org/node/9990.
Community currencies facilitate trading all over the world. Such currencies
- are resilient against recesssion and collapse
- do not favour the rich by charging interest
- belong to communities, not to banks
- prefer local goods and services over the globalised economy
- are used for economic regeneration and international development
Working with the UK LETS coordinator, I built a prototype online trading / social network system which would support different kinds of trading mechanism. Here's the whole story. But Drupal is now the obvious platform because it has such a huge buy in. (and because it rocks!)
Here is a requirements document for a community trading facility, which includes wisdom from seasoned activists,(it's long, and could be more polished) and here is a plan for how to build it as a set of Drupal Modules, to plug into existing community web sites.