Announcement

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(It took a while to set up the demo and documentation, so there has
not been much activity since I set this group way back.)

PROWL

Prowl is a short-hand term for Publisher-Reporter Oriented Web
Ledgers. The aim of the project is to enable existing web publishing
platforms to support different currency or payment frameworks through
the specification of community, lending or brand-oriented accounting
models.


Why Publish?
The idea is to popularize different means of assigning value to
economic activities that are marginalized in traditional, centralized
currency frameworks. Public awareness and appreciation of such
activity is expected to grow with each record that is published and
accounted in community, brand or lender currency. Over time, it is
hoped that a diversity of viable, ledger-based currencies will emerge
to help regulate economic stability and improve market accessibility.


How to Publish?
Prowl seeks to standardize published record syntax, report structure
and accounting semantics to enable different reporter applications to
reproducibly verify, audit and evaluate reports according to standard
conventions and accounting model specifications. This type of inter-
operability is similar to how different web browsers are able to
access and render HTML pages according to standard content types and
mark-up. Through web-accessible and mobile-compatible reporter
services, Prowl should not require new software installation or
dedicated transaction devices. End-users could simply use existing
publishing platforms, such as freely-hosted blogs, and mobile devices
to publish records and access report data.


Try It
Please try the demonstration at http://tyaga.org/prowl/reporter_services.php
and post comments at http://groups.google.com/group/prowl-users. If
you’d like to register your blog or domain as a test publisher site,
please announce your URL in the discussion group. Preliminary
transactions might be donation-based, such as for work performed on
the Prowl project itself or other type of activity that you publish in
your blog. There is also technical documentation at http://tyaga.org/prowl/prowl_doc.php,
which will hopefully generate discussions towards a standardization
process. Suggestions on the development of different accounting models
will be greatly appreciated.

Edgar