#timebanking — Public Fediverse posts

Ever wish you could trade your time doing something you love for help doing something you don't know how to do? Simbi is making is possible. It's free, easy to use, and (for the skeptical) you can test it by receiving help on something without even giving, and the person who chooses to help you still benefits. Could this be the new gift/trade economy?

https://simbi.com

#TimeBanking #SkillShare #GiftEconomy #BarterEconomy #Simbi #CommunityExchange #MutualAid #PeerEconomy #ShareSkills

Pondering the supreme irony of working on a funding application for a #CommunityResilience project with a focus on #DisasterPlanning and #extremeweather events while #StormEowyn is raging outside. #MutualAid #timebanking #Microvolunteering #OffersAndNeedsMarket #OANM

More openwashing from the timebank software world.

"After Edgar's passing in 2021, TimeBanks.Org sought to replace their outdated timebanking software, which had fallen behind in adopting modern digital standards. They searched worldwide for a technology partner and found Made Open."

https://cothrive.timebanks.org/tbo

Ah! They realised their mistake with CommunityWeaver 3 and went back to commissioning software from a company committed to. Open Source. Nope.

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#openwashing #MadeOpen #TimeBanking

Thinking about the period I was involved in a fledgling Timebank. Kinda failed as the council stopped funding the voluntary group. Almost an attempt to manufacture community in the wake of viscious austerity cuts. #Musing #RandomThoughts #TimeBanking
https://timebanking.org/
https://timebankingscotland.org.uk/

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But there's only so much I can do as an atomised individual. I'm sure much more could be achieved collective action.

I'm inspired by a mutual aid model from a 90s TV show called Vengeance Unlimited. This guy helps people get justice, calling on the special skills and connections of people he's helped before.

I think people really want to pay it forward, rather than being objectified by charity. This is why #timebanking can work, as Edgar Kahn said in his book No More Throwaway People.

I'm writing a report on my #ChurchillFellowship travels on #timebanking and #MutualAid and there are an awful lot of #anarchist references and pondering that a Google folder may not be the best place to store them.. is there any open source non spying alternative to #EndNote or similar..it's been 20+ years since I've needed to do this sort of thing! I do use #Notion a bit so that would work too. Any suggestions gratefully received.

I'm heading to #WestCoastUSA today for part 2 of my #ChurchillTravelFellowship to meet with lots of interesting #Timebank and #MutualAid projects. Starting in #Seattle and ending in #LosAngeles where I'll be seeing some of the people in this film. The whole reason I am coming is because I met #EdgarCahn at a conference in 2018 and he suggested I visit. Sadly he died 2 years ago but I am doing this trip with his widow #ChrisGray who is still very involved with #Timebanking https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/time-as-money-a-documentary-film-about-time-banking/ Film is on @filmsforaction site and they have just joined here so say hello and give them a follow.

@neonsnake if you aren't already aware .. Stephanie Rearick is doing great work to promote the concept of #MutualAid She organises regular online #Clusterflocks to get people together and also link #MutualAid #Timebanking #SharingEconomy stuff and much more to get people to think more widely about how all this stuff can be used. She is based in #Madison #Wisconsin but lots of people involved all over the world. They are developing some interesting 'non spying' software too through a #Coop https://mutualaidnetwork.org/

Articles about both Community Land Trusts (#CLTs) and #Timebanking on the BBC News homepage today.

If that's a move to over-compensate for the whole Richard Sharp affair, then I'm all for it.

Here’s my introductory piece on #cryptoanarchism and #crypto from an anarchist perspective.

Meant for laymen who somewhat or not familiar with crypto, I look at the ideology of crypto-anarchism and what uses can these technologies provide for alternative economies.

#faircoin #carboncoin #telekommunisten #faircoop #timebanking #bitcoin

https://medium.com/@unlisted_roots/crypto-anarchism-78daf84330ee

"Timebanking organisations worldwide are considering choices for the next generation of software. Recently, the Aotearoa (New Zealand) Timebank software working group published a report digging in to many aspects of timebank software and the needs of timebanks."

Report here:
https://fyodorovich.github.io/Timebank-Toolkit/Trove.html

#TimeBanks #TimeBanking #Aotearoa #NZ

Principles for timebanking software

https://credit-commons.gitlab.io/principles-for-timebanking-software/#principles

#TimeBanks #TimeBanking

@mattcropp @tbeckett Ah, ok...the "unencumbered manhood" bit led me astray.

Using social capital as part of loan underwriting seems like a decent idea. Kind of like what #timebanking is based on. Often, members are allowed to receive services before providing them, i.e. go into "debt" to the timebank, based on the social trust that each person will "repay" that "loan." Not a 1-to-1 concordance, but related concepts, maybe.