The Money Conference online

[Emily Hoyer <ebhoyer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!  Just de-lurking long enough to say:

You're all invited to join us online at The Money Conference, a new open
forum where we're focusing attention on several functioning money systems,
including federal reserve currency, LETS, Ithaca HOURS, and Time Dollars
(as well as a few untested technologies and theories), and examining them
against social, political, ecological, and economic criteria, in order to
learn from their triumphs and tribulations and so derive more elegant
recipes for future exchange media.   Whatever your background, and whether
your interests include tax law or cryptography, sustainable development or
new payment technologies, we welcome you and hope to learn from your
personal expertise.

You can reach the conference from http://www.transaction.net/money/ . The
first time you enter, you'll be asked first to select a nickname and a
password--a virtual version of your identity.  Then, when you've arrived
inside the conference, click on 'list all topics' and you'll see a listing
of topic headings (see the example below), each one devoted to a
particular money-related dialogue.  You can select any number of topics
according to your interests and read the new postings; once you reach the
end of the conversation, you'll be able to add your remarks, review as
many posts as you like, or skip ahead to the next topic or another
conference.

You may encounter responses marked as 'hidden', usually because they're
very long and the authors didn't want to burden other participants with
excessive scrolling.  If you'd like to read a hidden response, simply
follow the link to that post; then when you're done reading, your
browser's "back" button will return you to the unhidden conversation area.
If you have something to say that doesn't fit into any of the existing
topics, feel free to start a new topic to suit what's on your mind.

 Once you hit the Exit button, the system (Bryan Higgins' excellent
conferencing software, Motet) will keep track of which responses you have
and have not read, so that when you come back, you won't have to wade
through posts you've already seen.


Please drop by and take a look around; we're looking forward to hearing
what you have to say.



These conversations are already underway:

    #1. About the money conference

    #2. Who are you? Who is everybody else?

    #3. URLs of Money Resources

    #4. Money Mentions in Other Media

    #5. How do you start a money system?

    #6. Scope and scale of money systems

    #7. Maintaining a Money System

    #8. How do currencies affect the economy?

    #9. Inflation and other money supply questions

    #10. How do currencies shape our social and political behavior?

    #11. Cultivating sustainable markets: ecology and money systems

    #12. Federal Reserve Currency

    #13. all about Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS)

    #14. Time Dollars and service exchange programs

    #16. Ithaca HOURS: Does time really equal money?

    #17. Barter: the oldest profession?

    #18. Money substitutes: coupons, coops, scrip, tickets, vouchers....

    #19. fear of finance: speculations on the psychology of money

    #20. let your digits do the hawking: online payment methods

    #21. Taxation and Other Legal Issues

    #22. Backing: How is your money measured?

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Emily Hoyer
sophia17@xxxxxxxx
http://www.transaction.net/money/