Looking for help with a Community Currency Exchange System for Ottawa
There's a small group of passionate individuals planning a new community currency for Ottawa. The system (named Ottawa Community Currency Network) will target individuals and businesses and aims to promote trade without the use of cash. We're currently looking at various technology options to use and one of the contenders is Drupal (v6), and specifically http://www.CommunityForge.net / CForge, which uses the mutual_credit module. This code is currently maintained by a single individual, Matthew Slater.
Our goal is to get a prototype website up quickly with the basic functionality of a mutual credit trading system and looking like this HTML mockup: http://www.ottawaccn.org. I'm in the midst of doing that now.
Our future goal is to expand the functionality to include mobile payment, notifications by SMS, geo-tagged information to support "real-life" markets, multilingual support and more - eventually even tie-in with other community currency systems. Interested in helping out?
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