Fwd: [p2p-research] Fwd: "economic catalyst"

[Dante-Gabryell Monson]

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante....@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: [p2p-research] Fwd: "economic catalyst"
To: Samuel Rose <samue...@gmail.com>
Cc: Peer-To-Peer Research List <p2pre...@listcultures.org>, Robin Upton <Robi...@altruists.org>

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Samuel Rose <samue...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok, it makes sense now.

You are referring to a mutual (p2p) accrediting between individuals as
a way of recognizing one another as a legitimate source or trusted
participant in a system.

I wonder if there might be a way that we can put this into practice
over time between the two of us? It doesn't matter to me so much which
site, software/technology, or currency we use, so much as what we
choose to transact around (after all, on a smaller scale with just a
few participants, we could even track in a google spreadsheet or
something similar for example)

So, what should we sell each other, trade, or share with each other, Dante? :-)

I ll start with a simple answer :

I guess that in some way, the public history of our current email exchanges already creates some kind of accreditation / publicly available mutual recognition ?

A longer answer :

We can set up a project, and then collaboratively, such as on a mind map,

set needs/requests for such project to be developed,

and on such mind map also visualize our connection to such project,

and what needs/requests we may have individually to be able to support such project ( food, shelter, ... )

We could also visualize every need/request we may have be connected, as it would be some kind of tag/metadata , to all other similar needs/requests from other people around us, eventually also relating it to geolocation metadata.

I imagine also that we could add more tags related to our requests, such as ask for organic food produced within a certain distance from our location.

We can gather more and more information about potential producers, and have them included in our networks of interdependency,

and enable them to also express their requests, and ways in which they can support other peoples or projects requests,

and then enable them to choose who they prefer to support in their requests.

We can then come back to our own projects, and see their interdependence with other peoples projects, and the needs of such other projects,

and we can enable people to add further data and meta data about the accreditation of their transactions.

We can enable peers participating in the networked data bases to express requests related to their support ( such as a IOU type of transaction , or a specific need to be satisfied to enable them to create such support  )

We can include legal status objects to serve as intermediates for transactions,

such as specific not for profits, as to enable tax deduction for any monetary donations to specific requests,

monetary donations which can be accredited and hence offer a form of reputation, which itself could motivate other peers to support through donations any requests related to the profile who may have gained such accreditation.

etc

So I imagine we can create some kind of minmap which could be some kind of language, using granular elements.

I m not a programmer. Perhaps processing could help ?

http://processing.org/

Although I ve been thinking , with Gael, about perhaps learning some programming laguage such as "small talk" , ...

Or perhaps some other languages could also be useful for such purpose / data base ?

If it is a system then continually runs, perhaps also "Erlang" ?

I also hope to be able to integrate and use the f2f architecture Robin Upton is designing and programming.

I also gave a description in my last reply on

http://groups.google.com/group/emergent_donations/browse_thread/thread/becc80ed5637f6fc