Michael, Thank you for your thoughtful reply about Open Money and, if I
understand, software for alternative currencies. I'm glad you're making
progress, which I share with our lab's working group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinkingrelevantly/ , with Bala Pillai's
international Mind colonies http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mindecos/
(from whom I learned of you), with Blue Oxen Associates
http://www.blueoxen.net (where Tom Munnecke is active, the organizer of
Imagine Iraq), and with a group based in the UK for ki-work (working
wired at home) that's connected with Ecademy. Good to make touch, and
to imagine how we might work together. Andrius, http://www.ms.lt (01)
Michael Linton wrote: (02)
> Dear Anrdius,
>
> Glad to "meet" you, both here and on ecademy, where I saw your blog
> this morning - May 7/8 Uplift/Social Software amongst the Redwoods.
> Sorry for the delay in responding to your message - Easter was
> demanding and I am busy right now building a club on ecademy - "cc".
>
> We are always (in principle) interested in working with others and
> there may well be much common ground between our efforts. However,
> we are entirely focused on the development and propagtion of "open
> money" platforms, and all other applications and agendas are
> considered only in terms of how they support that function. We see
> many initiatives that can follow effectively after cc are avaiable,
> but may not flourish in an economy driven solely by conventional
> money.
>
> As I read (very superficlally) your agendas, they have less direct
> interest in "cc" per se, more on the inculcation of gifting and
> ethical behaviour as end in tiself.
>
> Perhaps the common ground lies in such affairs as "Imagine Iraq". For
> instance, see www.openmoney.org/cw and consider how
> local/regional/national/international CSR could be enabled to
> support project specific aid programmes in Iraq (and elsewhere for
> that matter).
>
> There are some interesting discussions on the Routecause ecademy club
> that you may not have noticed - Constructiveness... Iraqi
> reconstruction by Iraqis [ Rend Shakir ] [19-Apr-03 7:18pm ] in
> http://ecademy.com/module.php?mod=club&op=forum&c=111&t=4936#endm and
> other postings in that thread.
>
> I am also forwarding to you a newslettter that touches on several such
> issues - +++CLEAR PROFIT - ISSUE 8, APRIL 2003.
>
> Our software efforts are coalescing (it seems) in a substantial push
> in the next few weeks and will hopefully geenrate a major advance on
> what we now have in very rudimentary form at
> www.openmoney.org/go/cc.html.
>
> By all means. let's look at the possibilities,
>
> cheers,
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 12:24 pm, Andrius Kulikauskas wrote:
>
>>Hi! Michael Linton? and all! I'm glad to learn of your project
>>http://www.openmoney.org
>>
>>Our laboratory Minciu Sodas has a working group to "organize an
>>economy for working openly" http://www.ms.lt/openwork/ including a
>>paper "An Economy for Giving Everything Away" that we presented in
>>Bangalore, India.
>>
>>We're currently doing some work for http://xpertweb.com, a
>>peer-to-peer protocol for providers to give clients "money back
>>guarantees" in exchange for an open rating system. We're looking
>>for XML expertise, etc. and are just plain curious how we might
>>work together.
>>
>>Our laboratory http://www.ms.lt is headquartered in Lithuania, so
>>we're also very interested in European Union projects. We serve
>>and organize independent thinkers around the world.
>>
>>Very good to find you, and please let us know, how might we work
>>together?
>>
>>Andrius
>>
>>Andrius Kulikauskas
>>Minciu Sodas
>>http://www.ms.lt
>>ms@ms.lt
>>+370 (5) 2645950
>>Vilnius, Lithuania
>>
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>>
>>The Open Money Manifesto declares that money is just information,
>>and we can design it ourselves. Our money is our word, our
>>reputation within our community. Conditions are ideal where mobile
>>phones are common. The one year (2001) Japan Open Money Project
>>http://www.j-lets.net has ended. There is a money game that shows
>>the differences between conventional money and community money, a
>>college course, a "community way" fundraising model, a presentation
>>by Michael Linton for the Digital Money Forum
>>http://www.consult.hyperion.co.uk/digmon6.html , lots of links and
>>materials.
>>
> (03)
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